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Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
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Samson Passes Away

Date: 11 28 1981
Description: Veterinarians examining Samson, the Milwaukee Zoo's star 32-year-old gorilla, after attempting to revive him after he had collapsed while feeding in the zo...
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Gross Anatomy

Date: 1902
Description: Medical students dissect a cadaver at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois. Surnames on the students' aprons include: Cor...
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Executed Man

Date: 1957
Description: Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to...
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Guerilla Justice

Date: 1957
Description: Executed man on ground. Algeria.
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Truck and Train Crash

Date: 11 05 1930
Description: People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive...
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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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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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Dead Vietnamese Man

Date: 1961
Description: A dead Vietnamese man lays on the ground as a paratrooper prepares to fire bullets into the body.
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Dead Deer on the Highway

Date: 1968
Description: A Wisconsin game warden removes a dead deer in the snow that had been struck by a vehicle from a rural Vernon County highway next to a deer crossing sign.
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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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Byron Darnton's Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: War correspondents carry the flag-draped casket containing the body of Byron Darnton, the first casualty of their group; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Mor...
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Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Byron Darnston coffin being borne to the grave by war correspondent pallbearers; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
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Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Darnton-Fahuestock funeral with a rifle squad at attention and two coffins draped with American flags, Bomana Military Cemetery in Port Moresby, New Guinea...
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Darnton and Fahuestock Coffins

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Military Chaplain Fred Bartrop performs an Episcopal burial ceremony for Byron Darnton over the coffins; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea...
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Taps at Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: "Taps" is played at the Darnton-Fahuestock funeral; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
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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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Dead Fish in the Yahara River

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Al Koppenhaver, a game warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, holding a bucket of dead fish that were removed from the Yahara River belo...
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Dead Fish in the Yahara River

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki...

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