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St. Paul's Lutheran Church Steeple

Date: 1977
Description: "While working on St. Paul's Lutheran 'Half Way' church, between Lomira & Theresa, a workman was killed when he fell off the scaffolding on the left."
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Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two dead bucks with locked antlers are nearly buried in snow. The heads were mounted and hung in the Hotz family Europe Lake cottage until they were stolen...
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Funeral of Dr. Greg Langenfeld

Date: 03 30 1993
Description: "Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers carry Dr. Greg Langenfeld's casket from St. Theresa Catholic Church."
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Men and Wagon

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Description: Group of people posing with a wagon from which several dead prairie-chickens are hanging. One man is sitting in the wagon with a dog. Seven men are standin...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 70-78

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Description: If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom
and another age begin
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Skull at Mechta

Date: 1927
Description: A skull at the bottom of a excavation at Mechta. A digging pick has been included to show scale.
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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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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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Bascom Hill Grave Excavation

Date: 09 04 1922
Description: Skeletal remains of either William Nelson or Samuel Warren, one of two men buried on Bascom Hill. The grave was located about five feet north of that of th...
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Bascom Hill Burial

Date: 09 04 1922
Description: Skeletal remains of William Nelson or Samuel Warren, one of two men buried in the first cemetery in Madison located on what is now Bascom Hill.
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Funeral Flower Arrangement

Date: 1902
Description: Flower arrangements for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz at Oak Hill cemetery. Her portrait is placed in the center of one of the arrangements.
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Flower Arrangements for the Funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz

Date: 1902
Description: Floral arrangements at Oak Hill cemetery for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz. A small portrait of her has been placed at the center of the arrangements.
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

Date: 
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

Date: 
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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Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 05 1961
Description: View of a corner section of Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visible are some of the markers for 148 Confederate soldiers who died while being hel...
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Dead Body

Date: 1958
Description: Bloated corpse of a man lying on rocky ground in Jordan.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 45

Date: 
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...
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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 ...
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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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