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| Description: | Open casket with the corpse of an European American man lying inside it wearing a dark-colored suit coat and bow tie. Floral arrangements are placed above ... |
| Date: | 05 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing suits and hats are placing a coffin into the back of an International D-2 hearse marked: "Doom Bros." The hearse is parked in front of a la... |
| Date: | 09 18 1940 |
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| Description: | The caskets of University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and his son Glenn, Jr. are carried up the steps of the Monona Avenue entrance to the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Delegates from the International Labor Press Association place a marker on the grave of President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his deat... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Moravian funeral on the front lawn of a home. Six men carry a casket toward a group of people playing musical instruments. On either sid... |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Carrying the casket from Zion, the small country church." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site." |
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| Description: | Black Earth hearse drawn by horses. Chris Schanel, the Black Earth undertaker, is driving. |
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| Description: | Black Earth hearse drawn by horses. Chris Schanel, the Black Earth undertaker, is driving. In the background on the right a small pig is running near a fen... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Chris Schanel, undertaker, stands next to the back of his hearse. A home and trees are in the background. |
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| Description: | View of the Krueger family in front of the old house, taken at the time of Grandfather Goetsch's funeral. |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Goetsch and Krueger families, taken at the time of Grandfather Goetsch's funeral. |
| Date: | 03 30 1993 |
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| Description: | "Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers carry Dr. Greg Langenfeld's casket from St. Theresa Catholic Church." |
| Date: | 03 30 1993 |
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| Description: | "Peggy Langenfeld is flanked by her son Peter (left) and Funeral Director Charles Koepsell as they wait for transportation to the cemetery." |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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| Description: | You who were spared I talked with night but last about the velvet years I remember from the window The one that is blown is the one gone wild |
| Date: | 11 25 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Mrs. J.D. Tippett, widow of slain Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippett weeps at the graveside services f... |
| Date: | 11 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy holds the flag that draped her late husband's coffin as she turns from the gra... |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Martin Keefe, owner of the livery stable, drives a horse-drawn hearse, which has sled runners. The hearse was for the funeral of Mrs. Tom Hill. The buildin... |
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