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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.
Photograph

Muskego Church

Date: 1921
Description: View from cemetery towards the front of the Muskego Church. People are standing near the entrance.
Photograph

People at Cemetery

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Company Unions Memorial Float

Date: 05 01 1938
Description: May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone...
Photograph

Mary Lyon Tomb

Date: 
Description: View of the tomb of Mary Lyon (1797-1849), founder of Wheaton Female Seminary, as well as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary where she also served as president....
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the battlefield of Logan's Cross Roads, January 19th, 1862 ...

Date: 
Description: Pen and ink tracing showing the positions of Union and Confederate soldiers, troop camps, location of graves, roads, drainage, vegetation, houses, and fenc...
Photograph

Memorial Day

Date: 05 1987
Description: "Memorial Day at the River Church Cemetery."
Photograph

Oak Hill Cemetery

Date: 04 1900
Description: The horses and buggies of William Wills, A. Pautz, and Sarah Krueger are at the gate of Oak Hill Cemetery, founded in 1850.
Photograph

Union Cemetery

Date: 05 26 1997
Description: "Theresa American Legion Post 270 veterans visited seven cemeteries as they paid homage to departed comrades. Gary Erdman, Sargent-at-arms, stood at attent...
Map or Atlas

Chetek Lakes and Chain O'Lake Region : Barron, Rusk, and Chippewa Counties, Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: This 1915 map covers portions of Barron, Chippewa, and Rusk counties in Wisconsin. Shown are the township and range grid, sections, cities and villages, ra...
Map or Atlas

Meadow Creek Cemetery

Date: 1929
Description: This 1929 survey of Meadow Creek Cemetery in the Town of Stanley, Barron County, Wisconsin, shows cemetery plots bordered by U.S. Route 53 (now County SS) ...
Photograph

Procession to St. Anne's Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley of a procession of hundreds of pilgrims walking up the hill to St. Anne's Chapel which is lined with Stations of the Cross. The crowd is w...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 648-655

Date: 
Description: His mind wandered without rescue

The man is innocent.

and had to be brought home to the corner
and stapled to the ground
Photograph

Memorial Day

Date: 05 1993
Description: Mourners, miltary band, and white crosses on Memorial day.
Print

Rural Burial

Date: 
Description: Engraved view of a country burial in the snow. A clergyman reads a blessing as a mourner kneels near the grave. A group of mourners bow their heads. A team...
Photograph

Cemetery on Annie Glidden Road

Date: 1993
Description: Gravestones and markers in a cemetery at the side of a paved road. A cornfield is across the road.
Photograph

Saint Mary's Cemetery on County Line Road

Date: 1993
Description: Gravestones in a cemetery standing in rows, their sides and the ground covered in snow. A rope or chain fence separates the cemetery from the road along th...
Postcard

Lagoon and Rustic Bridge, Catholic Cemetery

Date: 1909
Description: Hand-colored view of the lagoon and stone bridge in the Catholic Cemetery. Caption reads: "Lagoon and Rustic Bridge, Catholic Cemetery, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

Cemetery

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Cemetery, Rosendale, Wis." A cemetery inside a chain link fence with mature trees. A sidewalk runs along the unpaved road in the fore...
Postcard

Hillside Cemetery

Date: 11 14 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Hillside Cemetery, Whitewater, Wis." View of the arched entrance to a cemetery, enclosed by a fence and filled with trees. A small ho...

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