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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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Crowd around Public Receiving Tomb

Date: 05 1895
Description: Albumen print of spectators standing and seated around the public receiving tomb in Oakridge Cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's body was placed after his fun...
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Little Norway Church

Date: 1890
Description: Little Norway Church, with graveyard, located south of Black River Falls.
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German Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1890
Description: German Methodist Episcopal Church with a cemetery. The congregation was organized in 1859 and the church was put up in the early 1860's. The church is no l...
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...
Photograph

Fort Crawford Military Cemetery

Date: 1895
Description: Fort Crawford Military Cemetery. Photograph made before restoration by the United States Government. Soldiers' families were also buried in the cemetery.
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Fort Crawford Military Cemetery

Date: 1895
Description: Fort Crawford Military Cemetery, as seen before it was restored by the United States Government. Two people are standing in the center near the tombs.
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Zwingli Reformed Church

Date: 1898
Description: Exterior view of Zwingli Reformed Church and cemetery.
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Old Fort Winnebago Cemetery

Date: 1898
Description: View through the closed gate, which has a sign that reads: Old Fort Winnebago Cemetery. Overgrown plants surround the gate, and trees surround a monument j...
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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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Garden of Joseph of Arimathea and Tomb #1713

Date: 1893
Description: A replication of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Depicted is the garden of Joseph of Arimathea and the tomb where Jesus is believed to be the buried. A Ro...
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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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