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| Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Seven Elks Club members in front of a canopy at Roselawn Cemetery. About 400 persons attended the flag service when the flag and Official Elks Rest were de... |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking east along Regent Street with snow on the ground. Visible are Lake Wingra, Monona Bay, railroad causeway across Monona, Lake Mendota, Hoyt Park, We... |
| Date: | 11 12 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Fall scene looking east in the 2600 block of Regent Street along the Catholic cemetery. |
| Date: | 10 19 1949 |
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| Description: | "Potter's Field," a cemetery site of the county asylum near Verona. One of the proposed areas for the construction of a county hospital for the chronically... |
| Date: | 11 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Higgins, assistant caretaker of Holy Cross cemetery, is shown attempting to repair the damage caused by vandals. About 12 small monuments near the ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles Watson is shown with her rosemaled plate during the Madison Art Guild Crafts Group exchange. |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | This map of Forest Hill Cemetery is ink and watercolor on cloth. The upper right hand margin contains an index by name and lot. The bottom left corner read... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Excavation site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation for placement of the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The legs and shoes of a ma... |
| Date: | 05 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a corner section of Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visible are some of the markers for 148 Confederate soldiers who died while being hel... |
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| Description: | The parson came. He said it well: Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on, not the sky. A little harvest of the sorrows between the sentenc... |
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