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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 04 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Caretaker building at Calvary Cemetery, Speedway Road. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Laxey Church, built prior to the Civil War, was named after Laxey in the Isle of Man, from which many of the immigrants had come. There is a cemetery with ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of a rural church on a hill and its adjacent cemetery. Beaver Creek Lutheran Church was or still is a Norwegian church. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery. |
| 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: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado. |
| Date: | 08 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, on June 12, 1948. |
| Date: | 08 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery on June 12. |
| Date: | 08 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Vandalized tombstones following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Middleton, on June 12, 1948. |
| Date: | 08 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Middleton, on June 12, 1948. |
| 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: | 12 01 1948 |
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| Description: | The funeral for the fire victims of the Bedford Street fire was finalized in the Middleton Junction Cemetery. The caskets are shown as the mourners await t... |
| 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 ... |
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