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Charles Green

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Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 05 10 1928
Description: The Lutheran Church and buildings, seen from Lutheran Church Hill.
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Wooded Cemetery

Date: 1970
Description: A country cemetery with a row of pine trees in the foreground. In the far distance is a farm.
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Bird's Eye View of Town

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Description: Elevated view of the town with hills in the distance. In the foreground are cattle inside a fence near a cemetery with a windmill. The town is behind furth...
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Preparing Cemetery Plots

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and a Perry automatic scraper to prepare the grounds at Mount Emblem Cemetery. Farm buildings are in the back...
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Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
Photograph

General View

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Description: View along fence line of a rural area. There is a road on the left and farmland on the right. A person is traveling down the road, visible as a blur. In th...
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Cabin and Cotton Field

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Description: Exterior view of a small cabin located near a cotton field. There is a cemetery in the far background.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 489-497

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Description: The monument is now

The place is ripe for building a roll-call
of seekers out of the earth

For each, his glory is the doing
and his dre...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 784-792

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Description: Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated,
their better natures,
surfacing through waves of church-worn care,
prevailed over...
Photograph

Farmland Vista

Date: 1961
Description: Vista over farmland from a small country cemetery.
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Middleton Landscape

Date: 1954
Description: Landscape with corner of a small cemetery.
Photograph

Cemetery View

Date: 1961
Description: View over fields, looking out from the cemetery.
Postcard

German Lutheran Church

Date: 12 22 1906
Description: Text on front reads: "German Luth. Church near Whitehall, Wis." The church building on the right is surrounded by a farm, trees, fields and fences.

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