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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
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| Description: | The grave of Pahoppa. This image comes from an Osage album with the inscription: "Compliments of G.W. Parsons." |
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| Description: | Open casket with the corpse of an European American man lying inside it wearing a dark-colored suit coat and bow tie. Floral arrangements are placed above ... |
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| Description: | View of an Indian cemetery on a Chippewa reservation. People are posing among the graves. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The tomb of the Robinson family, a large burial vault. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Rows of tombstones at the cemetery. The gravestone of Myrtle Schmelz is legible. |
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| Description: | View of the grave and monument for Asahel Burt and Nathaniel Dickinson. "Nathaniel Dickinson was killed and scalped by the Indians at this place, April 15,... |
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| Description: | View into the ruins of a stone burial vault in Spanish Burial Grounds. |
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| Description: | Monument tomb of General Sheridan (1831-1888), Union general in the Civil War. |
| Date: | 02 05 1978 |
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| Description: | "Armand Quick, one of Theresa's most famous sons, died in late January and is buried in the family plot at the Catholic Cemetery. Quick was famous for his ... |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Zion Cemetery. Herb Sellnow is laid to rest a short distance from the farm where he spent most of his life." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
| Date: | 07 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Private Bill Gantenbein of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, inspects the marker for Vicksburg, their beloved mongrel mascot. Pvt. Gantenbein passed his helmet on payda... |
| Date: | 07 13 1918 |
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| Description: | View of the excavation of two graves located on University Hill (now Bascom Hill). Main Hall (now Bascom Hall) can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 24 1961 |
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| Description: | A relative, left, tries to comfort Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jantz, parents of slain policeman James C. Jantz, at their son's graveside after the funeral servi... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of people stand in a graveyard in Lemberg, Poland as German victims of a massacre are buried. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a group of French soldiers. Caption reads: "The funeral procession of a dead French soldier. Whenever possible, a military burial... |
| Date: | 03 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Father Robert Schaller is reading a blessing over the closed casket of David Marcou's father, David A. Marcou, which is awaiting burial in Gate of Heaven C... |
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