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| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. Children watch as a group of men begin to pick up corpses wrapped in sheets on woven mats. |
| 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: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Bodies of Germans killed by Poles in Lemberg when the Nazis invaded Poland. American journalist Alvin Steinkopf was one of a number of journalists from neu... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a man wearing a suit and hat holding a dead bobcat standing next to a man wearing a button-up plaid shirt and hat holding a dead coyote. Both men a... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | "The painting shows the Choctaws and a mixed group of Major Daquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color. The latter were mostly attired in civilian clothes bec... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | "While working on St. Paul's Lutheran 'Half Way' church, between Lomira & Theresa, a workman was killed when he fell off the scaffolding on the left." |
| Date: | 02 1924 |
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| Description: | Two dead bucks with locked antlers are nearly buried in snow. The heads were mounted and hung in the Hotz family Europe Lake cottage until they were stolen... |
| Date: | 01 1869 |
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| Description: | Engraving after a drawing by Winslow Homer showing a crowned Baby New Year riding a velocipede through a hoop held by a woman, as the Grim Reaper, on the r... |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Group standing outdoors in the yard of a small clapboard church at the funeral of a small child. The child's white coffin, surrounded by mourners, stands o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of catalog for harvesting machines. Front contains illustration of a torn hole with the eye of a buck looking through the hole. Superi... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Flower arrangements for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz at Oak Hill cemetery. Her portrait is placed in the center of one of the arrangements. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Funeral flower arrangement for Mrs. Henry Scholz. Her portrait is at the center of the arrangement with the word "Mother" written below it. The arrangement... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mr. Henry Scholz draped in a black cloth, surrounded by several funeral floral arrangements. The portrait is propped up against steps which are... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Henry Scholz draped in a black cloth, surrounded by floral arrangements for her funeral. The portrait and arrangements are propped up agai... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Eight floral arrangements for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz arranged on a small staircase covered in a black backdrop. A small portrait of her has been ... |
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