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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A funeral party is assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as Lars D. Reque, stan... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large funeral party assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a memorial flower wreath. In the middle is a full-length portrait of a woman in a dress. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of memorial wreaths in the shape of anchors. The memorial includes a photographic portrait of a man, most likely John Best who died in 1890... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of memorial wreath grouping surrounding a draped portrait of W.T. Price. The wreaths have text which read: "... |
| 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: | Engraved view of a country burial in the snow. A clergyman reads a blessing as a mourner kneels near the grave. A group of mourners bow their heads. A team... |
| Date: | 11 25 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Mrs. J.D. Tippett, widow of slain Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippett weeps at the graveside services f... |
| Date: | 11 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy holds the flag that draped her late husband's coffin as she turns from the gra... |
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| Description: | Funeral floral arrangements with a photograph of the deceased placed in the center of one of the tall arrangement in the center. |
| Date: | 08 21 1965 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson delivering a eulogy at the funeral service for former Wisconsin governor Philip F. La Follette in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 12 06 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin State Journal staff carry the coffin bearing the body of editor Roy L. Matson from St. Andrews Episcopal Church. Rector Rob... |
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