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Peshtigo Fire Cemetery Marker

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Peshtigo Fire Cemetery marker, shown on the site.
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Cemetery View

Date: 1890
Description: People in a cemetery. Includes a view of the Scofield family monument.
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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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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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Springdale Township Cemetery Monument

Date: 1901
Description: Stereograph of monument. This 17.5 foot granite monument was erected on September 15, 1901, to mark the location of a Norwegian Lutheran cemetery in the no...
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Old Fort Winnebago Military Cemetery

Date: 1915
Description: Caption reads: "Old Fort Winnebago Military Cemetery". View through the open gates of the cemetery. Trees surround a monument just inside the gates.
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Doty Monument

Date: 1953
Description: Grave monument of James Duane Doty, who served as territorial governor and delegate of Wisconsin and territorial governor of Utah. The monument is located...
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New Monument in Calvary Cemetery

Date: 11 12 1948
Description: Rev. J.B. Schneider, O.P., pastor of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, looking at a newly installed bust of St. Dominic de Guzman, Spanish priest who foun...
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Roselawn Memorial Park Monument

Date: 10 08 1950
Description: The Reverend Benjamin W. Saunders (left), Episcopal director of the DeKoven foundation of Racine, stands beside a marble marker monument inscribed with the...
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Roselawn Memorial Park Monument

Date: 10 08 1950
Description: Monument at Roselawn Memorial Park, 119-122 Monona Drive, inscribed with the Lord's Prayer.
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Mount Washington Cemetery

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Description: A view of an elk atop the Elks Rest Monument in Mount Washington Cemetery. Gravestones and trees can be seen in the background. The inscription on the monu...
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St. John's Church

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Description: View of the church from the cemetery, which has a large monument. A clergyman stands in the doorway of the church. The building is brick, with vines traili...
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Cemetery

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Description: A view of monuments in a cemetery that stand on the ground of a once bloody battlefield. The monument of the left commemorates New York's 49th Infantry, an...
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North Cemetery of Antietam Battlefield

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Description: A view of eight commemorative tablets at the North Cemetery of Antietam Battlefield, the site of the bloodiest one-day battle in United States history in 1...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: The unveiling of a marble monument dedicated to Madison's war dead at Forest Hill Cemetery as part of Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies. At the right of th...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies.
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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Monument

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Description: A monument and statue honoring the Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson. There is a cemetery in the background on the left.
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Monument to Confederate Dead

Date: 1864
Description: An albumen stereograph of a monument to the Confederate dead, in the shape of a stone pyramid with steeply pitched sides.
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Monument to General Albert Sydney Johnston

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Description: Drawing of a monument to General Albert Sydney Johnston, which was erected by Association of the Army of Tennessee in the St. Louis Cemetery in New Orleans...
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Soldier's Monument

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Description: View of the Soldier's Monument, erected in 1898 at Evergreen Cemetery, sponsored by the Grand Army of the Republic. The monument, featuring a soldier and t...

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