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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1911
Description: Entrance to the Forest Hill Cemetery, with a streetcar on the right.
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Fair Oaks Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Funeral

Date: 06 22 1925
Description: Funeral of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison. Mourners gathered around La Follette's flag-draped coffin include Philip...
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Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1950
Description: Burial plot at Forest Hill Cemetery, where 140 Confederate prisoners of war were interred after perishing at Camp Randall military prison during the spring...
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Confederate Burial Monument

Date: 1950
Description: A monument to dead Confederate soldiers and Mrs. Alice W. Waterman at the entrance to "Confederate Rest" in the Forest Hill Cemetery. This monument was er...
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Confederate Graves

Date: 1945
Description: Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Confederate Rest Cemetery

Date: 1898
Description: "Confederate Rest" in Forest Hill Cemetery where Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Randall are buried. In this early photograph, there is a woo...
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Local Boilermakers and Helpers

Date: 1914
Description: Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o...
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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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Map of the City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin

Date: 1956
Description: This map shows local streets, roads, railroads, highways, parks, cemeteries, hospitals, the University of Wisconsin, Middleton, Maple Bluff, Shorewood Hill...

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