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Funeral for a Child

Date: 1902
Description: Group standing outdoors in the yard of a small clapboard church at the funeral of a small child. The child's white coffin, surrounded by mourners, stands o...
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Residential Wake

Date: 1925
Description: Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior.
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Medical Students and Cadaver

Date: 1896
Description: Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a...
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Grave Excavation

Date: 07 13 1918
Description: Boxed bones from graves found on University Hill (later Bascom Hill). Two men, seen from the waist down, are standing behind the boxes containing the remai...
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Post-Mortem Portrait of a Man

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Description: Interior postmortem portrait of a dead man lying on a bed in a room.
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Funeral Floral Display

Date: 1912
Description: Funeral floral arrangement for William Jaeger. His framed portrait sits on two wooden chairs. He is wearing a suit and has a neckbeard. Flower arrangements...
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Funeral Arrangement

Date: 1912
Description: Floral funeral arrangement for William Jaeger. A large head and shoulders portrait of him is resting on two chairs behind floral arrangements, with "Vater"...
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Funeral Floral Arrangement

Date: 1912
Description: Funeral floral arrangement for William Jaeger. His framed portrait is sitting on two wooden chairs. He is wearing a suit and has a neckbeard. Flower arrang...
Postcard

A Complete Deer Season, Cornucopia, Wis.

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a man holding a rifle, squatting on ground on the right, with his trophies: Carcasses of a deer, a bear and a wolf hanging from pi...
Photograph

Deer Hunters

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Description: A group of three men are standing next to a wooden hunters' shack with a deer hanging from the roof. Two of the men are holding rifles.
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Deer Hunter with Deer

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing and holding a rifle behind a propped-up dead deer in a forest.
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View of an Autopsy

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Description: View of a group of men at an autopsy. They stand around the cadaver with open books in their hands. There appears to be another cadaver in the foreground.
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Man Holding Deceased Infant

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Description: Interior of a room with a European-American man posing sitting and holding a deceased small European-American girl holding a flower in her lap. One either ...
Photograph

Man Holding Deceased Infant

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Description: Interior of a room with a European-American man posing sitting and holding a deceased small European-American girl holding a flower in her lap. One either ...
Photograph

Dead Body

Date: 1958
Description: Bloated corpse of a man lying on rocky ground in Jordan.
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Dead Viet Cong

Date: 1961
Description: Dead body of a Viet Cong soldier on display in the marketplace of the Tan Hung village. He was caught planting poisoned spikes in swamps. Vietnamese soldie...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 45

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Description: The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness
The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument
to learn that Grace, in an...
Photograph

Dead Viet Cong

Date: 1961
Description: Body of a Viet Cong sympathizer who had been painting anti-government propaganda banners to hang in a South Vietnamese border village. Some of the banners ...
Photograph

Viet Cong Prisoners Carrying Body

Date: 1961
Description: Two Viet Cong prisoners carry the body of a recently killed South Vietnamese paratrooper, wrapped in canvas and tied to a pole. The prisoners are supervise...

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