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Reburial of Chief Simon Kahquados

Date: 05 30 1931
Description: A group of people pose around the casket containing the body of Chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados at Peninsula State Park during a reburial ceremony.
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Funeral Floral Offering

Date: 1891
Description: Floral offering built around the form of a steam engine at the funeral of Matt Ellis.
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French Cemetery

Date: 1920
Description: French Cemetery. The Stone tombs are the graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elisabeth.
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French Cemetery

Date: 1915
Description: French Cemetery. The Stone tombs are the graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elisabeth.
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Large Burial Vault

Date: 1910
Description: The tomb of the Robinson family, a large burial vault.
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Lourdes of America

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Description: View from a stone archway of "Lourdes of America," a shrine of the resurrection of Christ in the Bronx. Two statues of men and two kneeling angels are on e...
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Public Tomb, Chester, Vermont

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Description: View of a public tomb, built in 1850, outside a cemetery. A mounted canon and Civil War Soldiers Monument can be seen nearby.
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Grave and Monument of Asahel Burt and Nathaniel Dickinson

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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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Grave of Captain George Denison

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Description: Grave of Captain George Denison. His tombstone reads, "Here lies the body of Captain George Denison departed October the 23 in the year of his age 1694."
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Spanish Burial Grounds

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Description: View into the ruins of a stone burial vault in Spanish Burial Grounds.
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Kit Carson's Grave

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Description: View of the grave of Kit Carson (1809-1868), an American frontiersman.
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Tomb of General John Coffee

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Description: Tomb of General John Coffee (1772-1833), who fought in the Indian Wars and the War of 1812. Published by Joseph Milner & Son, Druggists.
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Tomb of General Sheridan

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Description: Monument tomb of General Sheridan (1831-1888), Union general in the Civil War.
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"Uncle Sam's" Grave

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Description: Grave of Samuel Wilson (1766-1854), erected in 1931 by his granddaughter Marion Wilson (Sheldon) at Oakwood Cemetery.
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Map of the Four Lakes Country, Wisconsin

Date: 1892
Description: This map oriented with north to the upper left shows railroads, creeks, post offices, smaller lakes, Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Waubesa, ...
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Fred M. Schlimgen Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Fred M. Schlimgen of Madison, Wisconsin, designer and builder of memorial markers, with a landscape of classical buildings, a cloud-filled sk...
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French Soldier Burial

Date: 02 01 1919
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...

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