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Small Girl in Coffin

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Description: Small girl in a casket which is standing upright against a wall. There is a man standing on the left nearby.
Photograph

Truck and Train Crash

Date: 11 05 1930
Description: People watching railroad workers attempting to extricate the bodies of three men who died under the wheels of the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive...
Photograph

Head-On Train Collision

Date: 10 1891
Description: The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars...
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Dead Deer on the Highway

Date: 1968
Description: A Wisconsin game warden removes a dead deer in the snow that had been struck by a vehicle from a rural Vernon County highway next to a deer crossing sign.
Magazine or Periodical

The "Bloody Shirt" Reform

Date: 08 12 1876
Description: A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame...
Photograph

Open Casket with Body of European American Man

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Description: Open casket with the corpse of an European American man lying inside it wearing a dark-colored suit coat and bow tie. Floral arrangements are placed above ...
Photograph

Men with Two Small Bucks

Date: 1910
Description: Bringing in two small bucks, dead and loaded on a sled behind a team of horses, Old Camp 2. The third man from the right is Clarence Deitz.
Print

"The Battle of Gettysburg"

Date: 1863
Description: An engraving of the Battle of Gettysburg, after the painting by P.F. Rothermel.
Photograph

Yaquis After the Execution of Six Men

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Description: A view of members of the Yaqui tribe after the execution of six men in Guaymas Mexico. Caption reads: "Yaquis after the execution, Guaymas, Mexico."
Photograph

Helilift of Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helilift of corpses after a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop mats on the ground in a field. S...
Photograph

Funeral, Binh Hung

Date: 06 1962
Description: Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo...
Photograph

Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: A woman holding a baby stands in front of two dead bodies laid out for a funeral in a open-air, covered building. The men were killed during a Viet Cong at...
Photograph

Nazi Bodies

Date: 1939
Description: Bodies of Germans killed by Poles in Lemberg when the Nazis invaded Poland. American journalist Alvin Steinkopf was one of a number of journalists from neu...
Photograph

Men Holding Dead Bobcat and Coyote

Date: 1935
Description: View of a man wearing a suit and hat holding a dead bobcat standing next to a man wearing a button-up plaid shirt and hat holding a dead coyote. Both men a...
Print

Repulse of the Highlanders

Date: 1985
Description: Painting depicting the Battle of New Orleans, fought on 8 January 1815. In the upper corner of the painting Major General Andrew Jackson is shown at the to...
Photograph

Men and Wagon

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Description: Group of people posing with a wagon from which several dead prairie-chickens are hanging. One man is sitting in the wagon with a dog. Seven men are standin...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 70-78

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Description: If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom
and another age begin
Photograph

Funeral for a Child

Date: 1902
Description: Group standing outdoors in the yard of a small clapboard church at the funeral of a small child. The child's white coffin, surrounded by mourners, stands o...
Photograph

Medical Students and Cadaver

Date: 1896
Description: Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a...
Postcard

A Complete Deer Season, Cornucopia, Wis.

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a man holding a rifle, squatting on ground on the right, with his trophies: Carcasses of a deer, a bear and a wolf hanging from pi...

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