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| Description: | Open coffin, decorated with flowers, and a wreath that reads, "Our Mother" in a funeral salon. |
| Date: | 07 25 2007 |
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| Description: | Open casket of Margaret Brom, during a wake at St. Bart's. |
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| Description: | View of a funeral pyre for a group of deceased Hindu people. Remnants of bodies lie on a stack of logs for cremation. Caption reads: "Hindu Funeral Pile." |
| 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: | Funeral services in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two bodies are lying covered with woven mats on top of white pallets. There ar... |
| 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: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Women and children crouch around bodies laid out for funerals covered with woven mats. The deceased were killed during a Viet Cong raid of Vinh Quoi, Vietn... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of th... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Flower arrangements for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz at Oak Hill cemetery. Her portrait is placed in the center of one of the arrangements. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Funeral flower arrangement for Mrs. Henry Scholz. Her portrait is at the center of the arrangement with the word "Mother" written below it. The arrangement... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mr. Henry Scholz draped in a black cloth, surrounded by several funeral floral arrangements. The portrait is propped up against steps which are... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Henry Scholz draped in a black cloth, surrounded by floral arrangements for her funeral. The portrait and arrangements are propped up agai... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Eight floral arrangements for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz arranged on a small staircase covered in a black backdrop. A small portrait of her has been ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Floral arrangements at Oak Hill cemetery for the funeral of Mrs. Henry Scholz. A small portrait of her has been placed at the center of the arrangements. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Henry Scholz draped with black fabric, surrounded by several floral arrangements. The portrait is propped up on a staircase covered in a b... |
| Date: | 09 28 1967 |
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| Description: | The bronze star is awarded posthumously to Private First Class Thomas E. Broome for bravery in action in Vietnam. Broome's father Stanley Broome is accepti... |
| Date: | 03 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Rose Caroline Muskat Marcou saying her final goodbyes at the open casket of David A. Marcou, her husband of 65 years, inside the St. James Church. |
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