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Memorial Photograph

Date: 1900
Description: Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of th...
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Corpse of an Elderly Man

Date: 1918
Description: Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations.
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Skull at Mechta

Date: 1927
Description: A skull at the bottom of a excavation at Mechta. A digging pick has been included to show scale.
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Funeral for a Child

Date: 1902
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...
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Residential Wake

Date: 1925
Description: Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior.
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Medical Students and Cadaver

Date: 1896
Description: Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1889
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...
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An Infant; Post Mortem

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Description: Indoor portrait of an infant post mortem, lying in a bassinet.
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Dead Infant

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Description: Interior view of an infant post mortem, lying in a baby buggy.
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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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Funeral Flower Arrangement

Date: 1902
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.
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Funeral Flower Arrangement

Date: 1902
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...
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Funeral Floral Arrangements

Date: 1902
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...
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Mrs. Henry Scholz Funeral Floral Arrangements

Date: 1902
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...
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Floral Arrangements for Funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz

Date: 1902
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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Flower Arrangements for the Funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz

Date: 1902
Description: Floral arrangements at Oak Hill cemetery for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz. A small portrait of her has been placed at the center of the arrangements.
Photograph

Funeral Flower Arrangements for Funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz

Date: 1902
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Henry Scholz draped with black fabric, surrounded by several floral arrangements. The portrait is propped up on a staircase covered in a b...
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Leroy Lumbard

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Description: Ninth plate daguerreotype of Leroy Lumbard, taken at the age of 2 after his death. The portrait is three-quarter length with the child laying back and turn...

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