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| Date: | 05 01 1865 |
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| Description: | Albumen print of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Thirty-six maidens in white surround Lincoln's hearse as it passes through the funeral arch, probabl... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large funeral party assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a memorial flower wreath. In the middle is a full-length portrait of a woman in a dress. |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | Funeral of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison. Mourners gathered around La Follette's flag-draped coffin include Philip... |
| Date: | 12 1896 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Caryl Fairchild (later Caryl Fairchild Bacon), youngest daughter of former governor and Civil War hero Lucius Fairchild. This photograph is da... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Sally Blair Fairchild, the wife of Jairus Fairchild, the first mayor of Madison, and the mother of Lucius, Cassius, Charles Fairchild, and Sarah Fairchild ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Maria A. Morrison, born Maria Amelia Hickox in 1800, the wife of Wisconsin pioneer James Morrison. With her husband, Mrs... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Morrison Dean, the wife of Nathaniel Dean of Madison. Mrs. Dean was born in Dodgeville in 1829, moved to Ma... |
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| Description: | Two women and a man visit a recent grave. |
| Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado. |
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| Description: | The Nguyen family, each wearing a white headband, poses in front of the casket of Kim Nguyen, the family patriarch. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman holding a baby stands in front of two dead bodies laid out for a funeral in a open-air, covered building. The men were killed during a Viet Cong at... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Women and children crouch around bodies laid out for funerals covered with woven mats. The deceased were killed during a Viet Cong raid of Vinh Quoi, Vietn... |
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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: | "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... |
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