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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of deceased twin infants in coffins. They are Robert and Janet Fitzpatrick, born July 5, 1885, died April 20, 1886, children of Robert and ... |
| Date: | 03 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Five-year-old Wilbur Corcoran, son of Frank and Margaret Corcoran, 624 Williamson Street, lying in a coffin surrounded by flower arrangements and a three-t... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Open casket of a young bearded and moustached man outdoors. There is a canvas covering used as a backdrop. |
| Date: | 07 26 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Walter Becker's body in a casket in the front of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 247 Division Street. The casket is surrounded by fl... |
| Date: | 05 13 1884 |
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| Description: | "Mourning portrait" of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), taken after his death on the morning of May 13, 1884. McCormick's hair and beard are neatly trimm... |
| Date: | 09 17 1945 |
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| Description: | The body of Donald Bruer in his coffin. Donald, 3 years old, fell from a third floor window and was impaled on a picket fence. |
| Date: | 09 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Body of James S. Timlin, 79, in his coffin. |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Open casket containing body of a man, and large floral displays surrounding it. |
| Date: | 07 25 2007 |
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| Description: | Open casket of Margaret Brom, during a wake at St. Bart's. |
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| Description: | Open casket with the corpse of an European American man lying inside it wearing a dark-colored suit coat and bow tie. Floral arrangements are placed above ... |
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| Description: | European American man layed out on a lounging sofa, dressed in a suit. Probably a corpse lying in state. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman holding a baby stands in front of two dead bodies laid out for a funeral in a open-air, covered building. The men were killed during a Viet Cong at... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 15 1978 |
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| Description: | "On Feb. 13, Herbert Sellnow died unexpectedly at the age of 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days. As events turned out, this was the last funeral in the Beck ... |
| Date: | 03 30 1993 |
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| Description: | "Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers carry Dr. Greg Langenfeld's casket from St. Theresa Catholic Church." |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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