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Red Cliff Reservation Cemetery

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Description: Man posing by a gate in the Red Cliff Indian Reservation cemetery.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1938
Description: Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Norwegian Octagon Church

Date: 1885
Description: Norwegian Octagon church, built in 1852 and torn down about 1891 or 1892.
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Ho-Chunk Log Grave House

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Description: View of a Ho-Chunk log grave house in a wooded area.
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Graceland Cemetery

Date: 04 1981
Description: View of the Graceland Cemetery. There are houses in the background and trees scattered throughout the plots.
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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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Union Cemetery

Date: 02 05 1978
Description: "Union Cemetery — The graves are awash in snow in the aftermath of the late January snowstorm."
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Cemetery

Date: 1920
Description: View across road of a cemetery.
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Cemetery and Chapel

Date: 1922
Description: Tombstones at the cemetery, Looking up towards the chapel.
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Looking Northwest from Cemetery

Date: 1922
Description: View from the hilltop at the Genoa cemetery looking down towards the village, the Mississippi River and the Minnesota border.
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Pine Grove Cemetery

Date: 1913
Description: The Stewart mausoleum located in Pine Grove Cemetery. Flowers and a wreath are at the front door of the mausoleum.
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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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Monument for Johanna Krueger

Date: 1908
Description: Monument for Johanna Krueger, the third wife of William Krueger, in Lebanon cemetery.
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Monument for Wilhelm and Wilhelmina Krueger

Date: 1908
Description: Monument for Wilhelm Krueger and his first wife, Wilhelmina Krueger, in Lebanon cemetery.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

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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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Rephotographic Pair: The Laxey Church and Cemetery

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Description: A vintage view of the Laxey Church, paired with a modern view of the Laxey cemetery in the same location.
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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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Pet Cemetery

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Description: London, England. Cat and dog cemetery used by nobility.
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Indian Graves

Date: 1910
Description: Two Indian graves, with a flag next to each one.
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Grave Detail

Date: 1910
Description: A detail of a grave at an Indian village by Namakan lake. There is a box containing various tokens by the wooden coffin.

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