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Description:: 10:50 - 11:00 a.m. Program Opens: MUSIC "The Minnesota..." Program Closes: "...School of the Air." Music Out
Creator:: University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Created:: 1975-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-03-26

Description:: Coffins of the children and others who died in the rush to exit the Italian Hall surrounded by mourners, Calumet, Michigan. The deaths occurred at a Christmas Eve party for the families of the striking miners when an unknown person yelled "fire." The exit doors were blocked and seventy-four people, including children were crushed.
Creator:: J. W. Nara, Calumet, Mich.
Created:: 1913?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-12-29

Description:: Funeral for Samuel Yblonsky at Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery. In attendance is Lena Ylonsky, Samuel's wife, and the St. Paul chaper of the Jewish War Vets. Chesed Shel Emes Jewish War Vet. Silent.
Contributor:: Dorr, Bertha
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2024-07-30

Description:: A group of adults and children in a small town (probably in Superior, Wisconsin or Ely, Minnesota) gather for a funeral procession. A coffin sits on a sidewalk, in front of a building marked with the sign "Undertaking." A horse-drawn hearse waits nearby.
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-12-29

Description:: The funeral of Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster at B'nai Israel synagogue (Congregation Children of Israel) in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The three people at the top of the stairs are (left to right): Henry, Mrs, Benjamin Papermaster, and George.
Created:: 1934
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2018-04-23

Description:: View of the large crowd gathered outside for funeral of Rabbi Samuel Deinard facing Temple Israel synagogue at 24th Street and Emerson Avenue in Minneapolis. Rabbi Deinard died from a heart attack just as temple members were gathering for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews. The year before the temple had changed its name from Shaar...
Created:: 1921
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-17

Description:: View of the large crowd gathered outside for the funeral of Rabbi Samuel Deinard, facing 24th Street and Emerson Avenue at Temple Israel synagogue in Minneapolis. Rabbi Deinard died from a heart attack just as temple members were gathering for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism. The year before the temple had changed its name fro...
Created:: 1921
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-17

Description:: View of a hearse and funeral procession, around 1912.
Created:: 1912
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-12-29

Description:: Aerial view of funeral procession in the snow for the victims killed in the Italian Hall tragedy, Calumet, Michigan. The deaths occurred at a Christmas Eve party for the families of the striking miners when an unknown person yelled "fire." The exit doors were blocked and seventy-four people, including children were crushed.
Created:: 1913?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-12-29

Description:: Funeral procession in snow for the victims killed in the Italian Hall tragedy, Calumet, Michigan. The deaths occurred at a Christmas Eve party for the families of the striking miners when an unknown person yelled "fire." The exit doors were blocked and seventy-four people, including children were crushed.
Created:: 1913?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-12-29

Description:: Funerary stele of Agenor on exhibit at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The stele is of Tasian marble and dates from the Classical period, end of the 5th century BC. It was discovered in Ierissos.
Creator:: Johnson, Timothy J.
Created:: 2018-08
Contributed By:: Timothy J. Johnson
Last Updated:: 2018-12-04

Description:: Grave stele of a girl from Nea Kallikratia, Chalkidiki. It was made by a Parian sculptor, an artist who was the equal of those who carved the sculptures from the Parthenon frieze. The dead girl wears a Dorian peplos and holds a dove, an iconographic motif known from other funerary stelai of the 5th century B.C. About 440 B.C. On exhibit at the A...
Creator:: Johnson, Timothy J.
Created:: 2018-08
Contributed By:: Timothy J. Johnson
Last Updated:: 2018-12-04