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Charles Scofield Monument

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Description: Cemetery monument of Charles Scofield. A woman dressed in black stands next to the monument.
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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...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
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Fairchild at Gettysburg Monument

Date: 1869
Description: Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair...
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Ella Bennett Bresee

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Ella Bennett Bresee, a member of one of Madison's oldest families, has decorated the graves of American war veterans for 70 years or more. She is placing a...
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Fort Crawford Military Cemetery

Date: 1905
Description: Fort Crawford Military Cemetery, restored by the United States Government about 1905. A woman is standing in the center.
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Fort Crawford Military Cemetery

Date: 1905
Description: Fort Crawford Military Cemetery, restored by the United States Government about 1905. A man and woman are looking at a tomb in the foreground.
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Three People Standing at Grave

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Description: Two women and a man visit a recent grave.
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People at Cemetery

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Description: Elevated view of various groups of people in a cemetery. A small group of people are gathered around a grave in the foreground. Other small groups are walk...
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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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Old Indian Burial Grounds

Date: 1935
Description: Ojibwe wooden burial houses surrounded by wooden fence on Madeline Island. Two women stand in the background.
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Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site."
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Grave of Colonel Hans Heg

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and one child alongside the graves of Colonel Hans Heg, commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, and his daughter Annetta....
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Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 1920
Description: View across lawn towards Norwegian Lutheran Church and cemetery. Well-dressed men and women stand at the entrance to the building. There are graves behind ...
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Oak Hill Cemetery

Date: 04 1900
Description: The horses and buggies of William Wills, A. Pautz, and Sarah Krueger are at the gate of Oak Hill Cemetery, founded in 1850.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 70-78

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Description: If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom
and another age begin
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Group of People in a Cemetery

Date: 1890
Description: Large group, posed at a distance, in a cemetery, probably in Hixton or Schlecterville.
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River Church Cemetery

Date: 05 1989
Description: Legionaries place flowers on graves at River Church Cemetery.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Jacqueline Kennedy at Funeral

Date: 11 26 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy holds the flag that draped her late husband's coffin as she turns from the gra...
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Sarah Krueger in Kripplein Christi Cemetery

Date: 1910
Description: Sarah Krueger sitting next to an engraved wooden memorial in Kripplein Christi cemetery.

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