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| Description: | "Death Whoop" an engraving after a drawing by Seth Eastman from the American Aboriginal Portfolio. |
| Date: | 05 13 1884 |
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| Description: | "Mourning portrait" of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), taken after his death on the morning of May 13, 1884. McCormick's hair and beard are neatly trimm... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | William E. Crossen, eighteen-months-old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Crossen, shown in a coffin at Joyce Funeral Home. |
| Date: | 09 17 1945 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 09 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Body of James S. Timlin, 79, in his coffin. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Novelty trade card advertising harvesting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. At close range, the image shows two young girls holding a ... |
| Date: | 10 21 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Byron Darnston coffin being borne to the grave by war correspondent pallbearers; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea. |
| Date: | 10 21 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Military Chaplain Fred Bartrop performs an Episcopal burial ceremony for Byron Darnton over the coffins; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea... |
| Date: | 10 21 1942 |
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| Description: | "Taps" is played at the Darnton-Fahuestock funeral; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea. |
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| Description: | Open coffin, decorated with flowers, and a wreath that reads, "Our Mother" in a funeral salon. |
| Date: | 05 22 1960 |
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| Description: | Two dead foxes hang from a barbed wire fence in a field. |
| Date: | 12 04 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a program at the [Kafka] Memorial Union. Text inlaid in ghostly image reads, "Quixote presents: A Phenomenological rout featuring t... |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame... |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting Justice holding bodies on her scale, one white and six black. The caption includes the phrase: "Five More Wanted." |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Open casket containing body of a man, and large floral displays surrounding it. |
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| Description: | A portrait of a seated elderly man dressed in a white gown. Probably a corpse, the body is held in position by another man. |
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