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| 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: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone... |
| Date: | 05 30 1967 |
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| Description: | View of a parade traveling through a cemetery. Beyond, barns and farmhouses can be seen. |
| Date: | 05 1993 |
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| Description: | "American Legion members honor deceased comrades on Memorial Day." |
| Date: | 05 26 1997 |
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| Description: | "Theresa American Legion Post 270 veterans visited seven cemeteries as they paid homage to departed comrades. Gary Erdman, Sargent-at-arms, stood at attent... |
| Date: | 05 1989 |
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| Description: | Legionaries place flowers on graves at River Church Cemetery. |
| Date: | 05 1993 |
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| Description: | Mourners, miltary band, and white crosses on Memorial day. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing in front of George and Martha Washington's tombs. One woman on the left is walking away from the tomb holding a camera. Two Americ... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of girls wearing State sashes, and a group of boys on the right wearing uniforms. One boy has a drum, another boy has a flag, and th... |
| Date: | 05 1936 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon from Foreign Service magazine depicting four young men disrespecting and vandalizing the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. One of the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of Alonzo Pond, Count Byron de Prorok and other members of the Algerian expedition paying respects to slain missionary Father Ch... |
| Date: | 10 16 1962 |
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| Description: | View towards a group of people standing in a cemetery around an altar and a flagpole with an American flag. A clergyman in an alb and chasuble standing in ... |
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