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| Description: | Funeral memorial card with one heart-shaped wreath and other floral wreaths decorated with ribbons and cards. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 02 15 1978 |
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| Description: | "On Feb. 13, Herbert Sellnow died unexpectedly at the age of 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days. As events turned out, this was the last funeral in the Beck ... |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Lester Beck readies the casket for the burial service at Zion Lutheran Church." |
| Date: | 07 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Curtiss D. Brauhn (center), 3110 West Beltline Highway, receives the official gavel as president of South Madison Optimist Club at installation ceremonies ... |
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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 |
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| Description: | His mind wandered without rescue The man is innocent. and had to be brought home to the corner and stapled to the ground |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Floral decorations for a funeral, massed in the corner of a residential room. Printed on large ribbons adorning the decorations are the words: "Husband," "... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a composite studio portrait of funeral floral arrangements and a man in front of a painted backdrop. A head and shoulders portrait... |
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| Description: | Interior view of a church from the rear, probably decorated for a funeral, with flowers arranged around the altar. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a funeral wreath displayed on a table, with the numbers 494. |
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| Description: | Studio photograph of a floral arrangement displayed on a table. Probably for a funeral. |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of an infant post mortem, lying in a bassinet. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| 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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