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Charles Green

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Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
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Charles Scofield Monument

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Description: Cemetery monument of Charles Scofield. A woman dressed in black stands next to the monument.
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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.
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
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Fairchild at Gettysburg Monument

Date: 1869
Description: Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair...
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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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Three People Standing at Grave

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Description: Two women and a man visit a recent grave.
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Lucille Ballweg Funeral

Date: 08 02 1948
Description: Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado.
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People at Cemetery

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Description: Elevated view of various groups of people in a cemetery. A small group of people are gathered around a grave in the foreground. Other small groups are walk...
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Funeral for Fire Victims

Date: 12 01 1948
Description: The funeral for the fire victims of the Bedford Street fire was finalized in the Middleton Junction Cemetery. The caskets are shown as the mourners await t...
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Road Construction with International Trucks

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: A line of International trucks are parked in a line along a dirt road lined with fences and power lines. Each truck has a load of dirt, and metal forms are...
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Man with Plano Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: Man standing outdoors beside a Plano grain binder. On the machine is stamped: "Manufactured by The Plano Mfg. Co. / Plano Ill's." There appears to be a cem...
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Methodist Evangelical Church

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view from across street of the church. It has a bell steeple, stained glass windows, double french doors with an archway, and a wall gable facade....
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Captain William Hogbin

Date: 1915
Description: Captain William Hogbin sits on a chair next to the headstone of his late wife, Mary Catherine (Tiffany Knott) Hogbin, in Forest Hill Cemetery. A woman, lik...
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Preparing Cemetery Plots

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and a Perry automatic scraper to prepare the grounds at Mount Emblem Cemetery. Farm buildings are in the back...
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Old Indian Burial Grounds

Date: 1935
Description: Ojibwe wooden burial houses surrounded by wooden fence on Madeline Island. Two women stand in the background.
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Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
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Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site."
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German Bodies

Date: 1939
Description: Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi...
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Parade through Cemetery

Date: 05 30 1967
Description: View of a parade traveling through a cemetery. Beyond, barns and farmhouses can be seen.

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