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| Description: | Studio portrait of memorial wreaths in the shape of anchors. The memorial includes a photographic portrait of a man, most likely John Best who died in 1890... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of memorial wreath grouping surrounding a draped portrait of W.T. Price. The wreaths have text which read: "... |
| Date: | 05 13 1884 |
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| Description: | "Mourning portrait" of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), taken after his death on the morning of May 13, 1884. McCormick's hair and beard are neatly trimm... |
| Date: | 09 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Body of James S. Timlin, 79, in his coffin. |
| Date: | 03 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Women executive office employees filing past the casket containing the body of Governor Walter Goodland in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Open casket containing body of a man, and large floral displays surrounding it. |
| Date: | 12 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles A. Puls, pastor of Luther Memorial church, 1021 University Avenue, looks down on the caskets of a mother and her three children, during funeral... |
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| Description: | European American man layed out on a lounging sofa, dressed in a suit. Probably a corpse lying in state. |
| Date: | 09 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the twin caskets of University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and Glenn, Jr. in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda at the state funer... |
| Date: | 09 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the crowd in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda during the funerals for University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and his son Glenn, ... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 15 1978 |
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| Description: | "On Feb. 13, Herbert Sellnow died unexpectedly at the age of 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days. As events turned out, this was the last funeral in the Beck ... |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Lester Beck readies the casket for the burial service at Zion Lutheran Church." |
| Date: | 07 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Curtiss D. Brauhn (center), 3110 West Beltline Highway, receives the official gavel as president of South Madison Optimist Club at installation ceremonies ... |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a composite studio portrait of funeral floral arrangements and a man in front of a painted backdrop. A head and shoulders portrait... |
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