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Casket and Flowers at Cemetery

Date: 04 21 1934
Description: Casket and flowers at cemetery for the funeral of Lorraine V. McGraw.
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Wilbur Corcoran Funeral

Date: 03 08 1930
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...
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Body in Coffin

Date: 06 30 1927
Description: View towards a body in a coffin in a home with a "Mother" floral arrangement. A cloth in front of a religious kneeler in front of the coffin reads: "IHS."
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Viewing casket of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 06 21 1925
Description: A crowd of mourners viewing the flag drapped casket of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda.
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Walter Becker Funeral

Date: 07 26 1947
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...
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Child in Coffin at Funeral Home

Date: 07 26 1945
Description: William E. Crossen, eighteen-months-old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Crossen, shown in a coffin at Joyce Funeral Home.
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Boy in Coffin

Date: 09 17 1945
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.
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Body of Man in Coffin

Date: 09 17 1945
Description: Body of James S. Timlin, 79, in his coffin.
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Body of Man in Casket

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Open casket containing body of a man, and large floral displays surrounding it.
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Armistice Day Rites

Date: 11 11 1949
Description: A community service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street's entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Flag bearers and a crowd of people sur...
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Grave Excavation

Date: 07 13 1918
Description: Boxed bones from graves found on University Hill (later Bascom Hill). Two men, seen from the waist down, are standing behind the boxes containing the remai...
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Bascom Hill Grave Excavation

Date: 09 04 1922
Description: Skeletal remains of either William Nelson or Samuel Warren, one of two men buried on Bascom Hill. The grave was located about five feet north of that of th...
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Bascom Hill Burial

Date: 09 04 1922
Description: Skeletal remains of William Nelson or Samuel Warren, one of two men buried in the first cemetery in Madison located on what is now Bascom Hill.
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Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 05 1961
Description: View of a corner section of Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visible are some of the markers for 148 Confederate soldiers who died while being hel...
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 45

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Description: The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness
The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument
to learn that Grace, in an...

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