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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Medical students dissect a cadaver at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois. Surnames on the students' aprons include: Cor... |
| Date: | 07 25 2007 |
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| Description: | Open casket of Margaret Brom, during a wake at St. Bart's. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A Skull and Crossbones wearing a jester's cap with bells. J and D are on the earflaps, probably referring to Jefferson Davis as a fool. On the crossbones i... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia is standing on the body of a fallen soldier. She has a sword in her right hand and is holding the Union flag in her left hand. The words: "TH... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two pirates, one armed with two pistols and the other with a rifle, are bringing a shackled soldier labeled "U.S." to Jefferson Davis. Davis is relaxing in... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A graphic design of a Confederate officer labeled "SECESSION" hanging by the neck from a beam. He is choking, his tongue is hanging out and his eyes are pr... |
| Date: | 11 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Front page of "Milwaukee Journal" newspaper with the headline: "Kennedy Is Slain". Includes a portrait of President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, ... |
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| Description: | View of a group of men at an autopsy. They stand around the cadaver with open books in their hands. There appears to be another cadaver in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Body of a Viet Cong sympathizer who had been painting anti-government propaganda banners to hang in a South Vietnamese border village. Some of the banners ... |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting in a wicker rocking chair with a newspaper across his lap. His eyes are partially open. He is either sleeping or deceased. In the bac... |
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| Description: | Four-fold, copy art card with front panel shows a religious statue of a woman sheltering three children under her mantle. On the inside, the left panel a b... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating against United States governmental support for the Salvadoran military and government. The poster reproduces a photograph of people, incl... |
| Date: | 09 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Five men in uniform stand over a partially obscured body on a hillside. Another soldier is behind the group on the left. Caption reads: "Fifth Army, Bonzal... |
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