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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | The entrance gate to Howes Corners Cemetery on Beechnut Avenue. The large tree in the center has a downed limb which has fallen over some of the graves. |
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| Description: | Ten graves of the Hedjord family in the Muskego churchyard. There is an obelisk is the center of graves. |
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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.... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards Norwegian Lutheran Church and cemetery. Well-dressed men and women stand at the entrance to the building. There are graves behind ... |
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| Description: | A large tombstone marking the grave of Tabitha Burgoyne Bird, the daughter of Major Burgoyne, a surgeon in the English army. |
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| Description: | Large group posed standing in a cemetery, possibly Hixton or Schlechterville. |
| Date: | 04 1900 |
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| Description: | The horses and buggies of William Wills, A. Pautz, and Sarah Krueger are at the gate of Oak Hill Cemetery, founded in 1850. |
| Date: | 05 1993 |
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| Description: | "American Legion members honor deceased comrades on Memorial Day." |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | This 1915 map covers portions of Barron, Chippewa, and Rusk counties in Wisconsin. Shown are the township and range grid, sections, cities and villages, ra... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | This 1929 survey of Meadow Creek Cemetery in the Town of Stanley, Barron County, Wisconsin, shows cemetery plots bordered by U.S. Route 53 (now County SS) ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | This 1929 survey of Rice Creek Cemetery in the Town of Stanley, Barron County, Wisconsin, shows cemetery plots without owners' names. Text of surveyor's an... |
| 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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