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| Date: | 05 26 1997 |
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| Description: | "Theresa American Legion Post 270 veterans visited seven cemeteries as they paid homage to departed comrades. Gary Erdman, Sargent-at-arms, stood at attent... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A grave in a segregated cemetery photographed by a civil rights volunteer, who notes that these grounds are cared for "without the benefit of the town's fu... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A grave in a segregated cemetery photographed by a civil rights volunteer, who notes that the Caucasian cemetery uses town funding while the African-Americ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Private Bill Gantenbein of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, inspects the marker for Vicksburg, their beloved mongrel mascot. Pvt. Gantenbein passed his helmet on payda... |
| Date: | 06 27 1964 |
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| Description: | The Mt. Zion church burned down on June 17, 1964, prompting Freedom Summer volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to travel to view... |
| Date: | 09 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Crosses in the cemetery at Buna. Buildings and tents are in the background among trees. The American Forces lost 798 soldiers, and the Australians lost 2,7... |
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| Description: | A view of a cemetery with stone grave markers among pine trees. A barbed wire fence surrounds the perimeter. Wooden steps go over the fence next to the gat... |
| Date: | 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Anne and Carl Braden stand at the grave of her ancestor Ann Poague McGinty. McGinty was the first white woman to settle in Kentucky. |
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| Description: | View across graveyard of the Old Welsh Church. The Jenkins family tombstones are in the foreground. Separating the cemetery from the church is a wooden fen... |
| Date: | 02 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Memorial plaque and white crosses at a Marine cemetery on Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Text on the plaque reads, "Semper Fidelis. At this site memori... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | The Catholic church of St. Francis Solanus is located on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation. The church was built 1923-1924 of native pipestone under the ... |
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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: | The monument is now The place is ripe for building a roll-call of seekers out of the earth For each, his glory is the doing and his dre... |
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| Description: | All about, wherever a thought stirred, are the memorabilia of its traces. As it is spoken, so is it written; as it is crucified, so is it grav... |
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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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Large group, posed at a distance, in a cemetery, probably in Hixton or Schlecterville. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Country cemetery among tall, dark evergreen trees. |
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| Description: | Pages 2 and 3 from the Walter Hagen Honey Center Golf Balls Pamphlet. Black and yellow drawings of the tomb of king tut and a vessel of honey, and a man wo... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Vista over farmland from a small country cemetery. |
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