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GAR Daughters Honor Civil War Veterans

Date: 06 26 1958
Description: A group of the Wisconsin Section of the National Daughters of the Grand Army of the Republic organization laying a memorial wreath to Civil War veterans at...
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St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Description: Exterior of a small church, with a cemetery in the foreground. Caption reads: "St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Built 1864, Town of Dane, Dane Count...
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Liberty Prairie Cemetery

Date: 02 05 2015
Description: View of a metal sign to a cemetery that reads: "Liberty Prairie" on an ornate wire background. Grave markers in the snow are in the background.
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Rephotographic Pair: Monument in the McFarland Cemetery

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of a sculpture of a woman, presented as a pair. The sculpture became a memorial marker for Mary McFarland (died April 1, 1...
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Saint Martin's Cemetery

Date: 06 2014
Description: Three statues among plants and small trees in a cemetery representing the Crucifixion of Jesus. Two statues of women, probably Mary and Mary Magdalene, are...
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Cemetery

Date: 10 2013
Description: A grove of trees growing behind a line of gravestones at Forest Hill Cemetery, and what may be an effigy mound. Fallen leaves are on the grass.
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The Green Man

Date: 08 2013
Description: Sculpture carved on bark of an oak tree of a bearded man by local artist Peter Dove, who titled it "Hombre Verde." The tree and carving sit in the Natural ...
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

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Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...
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Bascom Hill Grave Excavation

Date: 08 1918
Description: Excavation site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation for placement of the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The legs and shoes of a ma...
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Bascom Hill Burial Excavation

Date: 08 1918
Description: Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o...
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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley towards the back of the Lutheran Church and cemetery. Houses and barns are in the valley below, and more hills are in the far background. ...
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Middleton Landscape

Date: 1954
Description: Landscape with corner of a small cemetery.
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Crucifiction [sic] Group in Catholic Cemetery

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Description: A marble crucifixion monument of Christ and three mourners in the Catholic Cemetery. A groundskeeper stands just behind the statue holding up a scythe. Oth...
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West Koshkonong Lutheran Church

Date: 1878
Description: West Koshkonong Lutheran Church, an octagonal stone church built in 1852 and cemetery. The headstone of Cecilia Martins Datter is legible. Further refere...
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Catholic Church

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Description: Exterior of the Catholic Church. There is a cemetery behind the building.
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Bird's-Eye View of Town

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Description: View from hill over church and cemetery towards fields and town in a valley.
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Tombstone of Tabitha Bird

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Description: A large tombstone marking the grave of Tabitha Burgoyne Bird, the daughter of Major Burgoyne, a surgeon in the English army.
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Trees on Regent Street

Date: 10 11 1954
Description: Rows of maple trees, turning color, line the 2600 block of Regent Street. The photograph looks east and part of Resurrection cemetery is visible at right.
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Captain William Hogbin

Date: 1915
Description: Captain William Hogbin sits on a chair next to the headstone of his late wife, Mary Catherine (Tiffany Knott) Hogbin, in Forest Hill Cemetery. A woman, lik...
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Funeral for Fire Victims

Date: 12 01 1948
Description: The funeral for the fire victims of the Bedford Street fire was finalized in the Middleton Junction Cemetery. The caskets are shown as the mourners await t...

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