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Body of H.C. Townley, Killed by Train

Date: 08 10 1934
Description: A large group of people stands around the covered body of H.C. Townley, Oregon school teacher, killed by a Milwaukee Road freight train, at the University ...
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Men with Two Small Bucks

Date: 1910
Description: Bringing in two small bucks, dead and loaded on a sled behind a team of horses, Old Camp 2. The third man from the right is Clarence Deitz.
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M.C. Alexander Obituary

Date: 08 10 1950
Description: Police officers and company employees stand on the roof of the Wisconsin Power and Light Building, 122 West Washington Avenue, where M.C. Alexander of 303 ...
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Remains of President Lincoln at Monument Square and Pavilion

Date: 1865
Description: The remains of President Lincoln lying in state in Monument Square and Pavilion. Lincoln's body was on its way from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illino...
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Martin Lein/Lien's Funeral

Date: 05 1911
Description: Panoramic view from street of Martin Lein/Lien's funeral procession, showing Main and Water Streets before the flood of 1911. The procession includes sever...
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Helilift of Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helilift of corpses after a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop mats on the ground in a field. S...
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Carrying Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. Children watch as a group of men begin to pick up corpses wrapped in sheets on woven mats.
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh...
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two bodies are lying covered with woven mats on top of white pallets. There ar...
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Funeral, Binh Hung

Date: 06 1962
Description: Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo...
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Women and children crouch around bodies laid out for funerals covered with woven mats. The deceased were killed during a Viet Cong raid of Vinh Quoi, Vietn...
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church Steeple

Date: 1977
Description: "While working on St. Paul's Lutheran 'Half Way' church, between Lomira & Theresa, a workman was killed when he fell off the scaffolding on the left."
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Funeral of Dr. Greg Langenfeld

Date: 03 30 1993
Description: "Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers carry Dr. Greg Langenfeld's casket from St. Theresa Catholic Church."
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The New Year—1869

Date: 01 1869
Description: Engraving after a drawing by Winslow Homer showing a crowned Baby New Year riding a velocipede through a hoop held by a woman, as the Grim Reaper, on the r...
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Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
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Dead Viet Cong

Date: 1961
Description: Dead body of a Viet Cong soldier on display in the marketplace of the Tan Hung village. He was caught planting poisoned spikes in swamps. Vietnamese soldie...
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Massacre Victim

Date: 1939
Description: A German person who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victim

Date: 1939
Description: A German person who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victim

Date: 1939
Description: A German person who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.
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Massacre Victims

Date: 1939
Description: Germans who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded.

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