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Cemetery View

Date: 1961
Description: View over fields, looking out from the cemetery.
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Bascom Hill Grave Excavation

Date: 07 13 1918
Description: View of the excavation of two graves located on University Hill (now Bascom Hill). Main Hall (now Bascom Hall) can be seen in the background.
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Samuel Warren Headstone

Date: 09 04 1922
Description: Grave marker for Samuel Warren of Middlesex, England, who was killed by lightning in June of 1838 at the age of 26. Warren was buried in what was the first...
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Bascom Hill Grave Excavation

Date: 08 1918
Description: Excavation site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation for placement of the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The legs and shoes of a ma...
Postcard

St. Martin's Lutheran Church

Date: 1973
Description: Exterior view of St. Martin's Lutheran Church. Dedicated 1886; used continuously until 1973.
Photograph

Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 05 1961
Description: View of a corner section of Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visible are some of the markers for 148 Confederate soldiers who died while being hel...
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Monument in the McFarland Cemetery

Date: 07 22 2012
Description: A memorial monument at the grave of Mary McFarland in the McFarland Cemetery.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

Date: 
Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...
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Cemetery

Date: 10 2013
Description: A grove of trees growing behind a line of gravestones at Forest Hill Cemetery, and what may be an effigy mound. Fallen leaves are on the grass.
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Sid Sitting on Stone Wall at Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: Sid is sitting on a stone wall looking out over a graveyard. He is wearing a hat and a checkered hunting jacket and has a cigar in his mouth. A stream of f...
Photograph

Liberty Prairie Cemetery

Date: 02 05 2015
Description: View of a metal sign to a cemetery that reads: "Liberty Prairie" on an ornate wire background. Grave markers in the snow are in the background.
Postcard

Evangelical Lutheran Church at Hope

Date: 
Description: The Evangelical Lutheran Church with a cemetery in the churchyard. Caption reads: "Ev. Luth. Church at Hope, Dane Co., Wis." Also known as Hope Lutheran C...

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