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Cemetery Maintenance

Date: 08 27 1980
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man mowing the lawn at the Veterans' Administration Wood National Cemetery.
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Cemetery Workers Using an I-12 Tractor

Date: 1935
Description: Workers tending the grounds of the Forest Home Cemetery using a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor and wagon.
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Church

Date: 1955
Description: View of a church with gravestones in the foreground.
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Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1950
Description: Burial plot at Forest Hill Cemetery, where 140 Confederate prisoners of war were interred after perishing at Camp Randall military prison during the spring...
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Oak Grove Cemetery

Date: 1920
Description: The Oak Grove Cemetery entrance gate donated by George Esterly. The Esterly family lot is just inside the gate.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1938
Description: Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1938
Description: Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Confederate Burial Monument

Date: 1950
Description: A monument to dead Confederate soldiers and Mrs. Alice W. Waterman at the entrance to "Confederate Rest" in the Forest Hill Cemetery. This monument was er...
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Confederate Graves

Date: 1945
Description: Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, showing graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862. The grav...
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Indian Graveyard

Date: 1910
Description: The Indian Graveyard at the Catholic Cemetery.
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Indian Burial Ground

Date: 1920
Description: The Indian burial grounds in La Pointe.
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Indian Burial Ground

Date: 1936
Description: The Indian burial grounds in La Pointe.
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Indian Burial Ground

Date: 1918
Description: Burial grounds in La Pointe. A man is standing in the center with his back turned to the camera.
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Indian Burial Ground

Date: 1939
Description: Burial grounds in La Pointe.
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Indian Cemetery

Date: 1905
Description: Indian cemetery. A large body of water is in the background. Caption reads: "Indian Burying Grounds, Bayfield, Wis."
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Houses and Cemetery

Date: 07 17 1960
Description: Houses viewed from an old cemetery lot.
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Ella Bennett Bresee

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Ella Bennett Bresee, a member of one of Madison's oldest families, has decorated the graves of American war veterans for 70 years or more. She is placing a...
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French Cemetery

Date: 1904
Description: Graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elizabeth. Rolette died in 1842. The cemetery itself may date as early as the middle of the 17th Century.
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French Cemetery

Date: 1953
Description: French Cemetery, showing grave of Alice Irene Shoemaker who died in January of 1862. Calvary Cemetery is in the background.

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