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| Date: | 05 21 1933 |
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| Description: | Two men examine a break in the dike and the wash out damage at Forest Hill Cemetery, Section 22. The house in the background is located at 454 Virginia Ter... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen... |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | Funeral of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison. Mourners gathered around La Follette's flag-draped coffin include Philip... |
| 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: | 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: | 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | The unveiling of a marble monument dedicated to Madison's war dead at Forest Hill Cemetery as part of Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies. At the right of th... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Captain William Hogbin sits on a chair next to the headstone of his late wife, Mary Catherine (Tiffany Knott) Hogbin, in Forest Hill Cemetery. A woman, lik... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o... |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Excavation site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation for placement of the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The legs and shoes of a ma... |
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| Description: | The parson came. He said it well: Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on, not the sky. A little harvest of the sorrows between the sentenc... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Sid is sitting on a stone wall looking out over a graveyard. He is wearing a hat and a checkered hunting jacket and has a cigar in his mouth. A stream of f... |
| Date: | 1999 |
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| Description: | From left to right are Craig Arms, Lewis Arms, Jr., and with her back to the camera, Jenny (Arms) Blair, daughter of Lewis Arms, Jr.. They are at Forest Hi... |
| Date: | 06 26 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of the Wisconsin Section of the National Daughters of the Grand Army of the Republic organization laying a memorial wreath to Civil War veterans at... |
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