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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of deceased twin infants in coffins. They are Robert and Janet Fitzpatrick, born July 5, 1885, died April 20, 1886, children of Robert and ... |
| Date: | 12 1896 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Caryl Fairchild (later Caryl Fairchild Bacon), youngest daughter of former governor and Civil War hero Lucius Fairchild. This photograph is da... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Maria A. Morrison, born Maria Amelia Hickox in 1800, the wife of Wisconsin pioneer James Morrison. With her husband, Mrs... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Morrison Dean, the wife of Nathaniel Dean of Madison. Mrs. Dean was born in Dodgeville in 1829, moved to Ma... |
| 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: | 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Chris Schanel, undertaker, stands next to the back of his hearse. A home and trees are in the background. |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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| Description: | You who were spared I talked with night but last about the velvet years I remember from the window The one that is blown is the one gone wild |
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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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Funeral floral arrangement for William Jaeger. His framed portrait sits on two wooden chairs. He is wearing a suit and has a neckbeard. Flower arrangements... |
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| Description: | Floral grave memorial with a photograph of a European-American child in the center. |
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| Description: | The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument to learn that Grace, in an... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Newspaper halftone in Mrs. Louise Lawrence Van Dyke's obituary in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Portion of the text: "Liberal Donor to Charity. Mrs. Louis... |
| Date: | 05 1999 |
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| Description: | Adolph "Pappy" Arms attending the funeral of Blanche (Bass) Arms. He is wearing a necklace with a pendant bearing the image of Martin Luther King, Jr. arou... |
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