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Cemetery for War Dead from Iwo Jima

Date: 03 1945
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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Grave of Pahoppa

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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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Bishop William O'Connor Memorial Chapel

Date: 08 19 1973
Description: The Bishop WIlliam O'Connor Memorial Chapel at Resurrection Cemetery, which is a pyramid-shaped building with a spire on top and a cross at the point.
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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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Lincoln Funeral Car

Date: 04 1865
Description: Shrouded Lincoln funeral car stopped along the way to Springfield, Illinois.
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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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Open Casket with Body of European American Man

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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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"Walsh Pet Cemetery"

Date: 09 25 1960
Description: A cemetery for pets near Highway 58. Each burial plot is marked with a small wooden cross. Additionally, several plots have accompanying makeshift tombston...
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An Indian Burying Ground

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Description: View of an Indian cemetery on a Chippewa reservation. People are posing among the graves.
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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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Cassville Cemetery

Date: 1921
Description: Rows of tombstones at the cemetery. The gravestone of Myrtle Schmelz is legible.
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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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