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Cemetery for War Dead from Iwo Jima

Date: 03 1945
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...
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Calvary Cemetery Caretaker Building

Date: 04 27 1944
Description: Caretaker building at Calvary Cemetery, Speedway Road.
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Laxey Church

Date: 1947
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 ...
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Beaver Creek Lutheran Church

Date: 1945
Description: View of a rural church on a hill and its adjacent cemetery. Beaver Creek Lutheran Church was or still is a Norwegian church.
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Confederate Graves

Date: 1945
Description: Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Ella Bennett Bresee

Date: 05 25 1944
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...
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1940
Description: Fort Crawford. Tomb in the U.S. Military cemetery.
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Elks Club Members At Roselawn Cemetery

Date: 06 17 1945
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...
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Willis Hazeltine Gravestone at Brooklyn Wisconsin Cemetery

Date: 04 18 1946
Description: Gravestone of Willis W. Hazeltine inscribed, "An Honest Lawyer".
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Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial photograph of Madison's west side looking northeast along Speedway Road. Visible are Forest Hill and Resurrection Cemeteries, West High School, Hoyt...
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Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial view of west side, looking south along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Lake Wingra, Forest Hill and Resurrection Cemetery, Hoyt Park. Maj...
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Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial photograph looking northwest across the reservoir on Glenway Street. Featured are Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection Cemetery. Major streets are Fr...
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Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking north along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection and Forest Hill Cemeteries, Rentschler Greenhouses, Fore...
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Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking southeast across Speedway Road. Visible are the reservoir on Glenway Street, Hoyt Park, Resurrection and Forest Hill cemeteries, Glenway Golf cours...
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Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
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...
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Lucille Ballweg Funeral

Date: 08 02 1948
Description: Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado.
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Vandalism at Evergreen Hill Cemetery

Date: 08 16 1948
Description: Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, on June 12, 1948.
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Vandalism at Evergreen Hill Cemetery

Date: 08 16 1948
Description: Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery on June 12.
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Vandalism at Evergreen Hill Cemetery in Middleton

Date: 08 16 1948
Description: Vandalized tombstones following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Middleton, on June 12, 1948.
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Vandalism at Evergreen Hill Cemetery in Middleton

Date: 08 16 1948
Description: Vandalized tombstone following a beer party held in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Middleton, on June 12, 1948.

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