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Houses and Cemetery

Date: 07 17 1960
Description: Houses viewed from an old cemetery lot.
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Gravestone of Walter and Ionie Arms

Date: 1960
Description: Walter and Ionie Arms's grave marker in the shade of a tall bush at the Burr Ridge cemetery.
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Cassville Cemetery

Date: 1921
Description: Rows of tombstones at the cemetery. The gravestone of Myrtle Schmelz is legible.
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Grave of Colonel Hans Heg

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and one child alongside the graves of Colonel Hans Heg, commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, and his daughter Annetta....
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 1987
Description: "Memorial Day at the River Church Cemetery."
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Group in Cemetery

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Description: Large group posed standing in a cemetery, possibly Hixton or Schlechterville.
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Procession to St. Anne's Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley of a procession of hundreds of pilgrims walking up the hill to St. Anne's Chapel which is lined with Stations of the Cross. The crowd is w...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 70-78

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Description: If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom
and another age begin
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 648-655

Date: 
Description: His mind wandered without rescue

The man is innocent.

and had to be brought home to the corner
and stapled to the ground
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River Church Cemetery

Date: 05 1989
Description: Legionaries place flowers on graves at River Church Cemetery.
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Wendorf Family Monument

Date: 1903
Description: Wendorf family monument located within Oak Hill cemetery.
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Two Women in a Cemetery

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Description: View across grass towards two women posing standing in front of a group of tombstones in a cemetery.
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Gathering of Girls Wearing State Sashes

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of girls wearing State sashes, and a group of boys on the right wearing uniforms. One boy has a drum, another boy has a flag, and th...
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Sid Posing on Stone Wall in Cemetery

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Description: View of Sid posing sitting on the stone wall at the entrance to a cemetery with a July 1961 calendar under his arm. He is holding a stem of lilies and has ...
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Martha & Emma Schroeder Gravestone

Date: 10 1974
Description: Outdoor portrait of Bernice (Boyum) Bergner standing behind a gravestone for her aunt Martha W. and her mother Emma M. Schroeder Boyum in the Hillside Ceme...
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Bernard and Nellie Arms Grave Marker

Date: 05 1999
Description: A rectangular gravestone bearing the birth and death years of Bernard and Nellie Arms. There are flowers next to the stone.
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Scots Pine

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Pinus sylvestris, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing in the Cooksville Cemetery. Smaller trees and other flow...
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Lagoon and Rustic Bridge, Catholic Cemetery

Date: 1909
Description: Hand-colored view of the lagoon and stone bridge in the Catholic Cemetery. Caption reads: "Lagoon and Rustic Bridge, Catholic Cemetery, La Crosse, Wis."
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Brumder Burial

Date: 05 1910
Description: Floral tributes, including wreaths and a cross, form a large display at the base of the obelisk marking the Brumder family plot in Forest Home Cemetery. O...
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Grace Raymond Hebard at Sacajawea's Grave

Date: 1926
Description: A woman holding flowers is standing between two graves, looking at the one on the left. Caption reads: "Wind River Indian Reservation (formerly the Shosho...

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