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| Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Chatting about previous fire fighting experiences are (from left to right): Captain Arthur Wilcox, Firemen Russell Mani, and Wilbur Wright. They are sittin... |
| Date: | 03 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Brush fire in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Robert Risser, Jr., of 3806 Hammersley Road, on duty watching for boaters in distress on Lake Mendota from the U.W. Lifesaving Services lookout. He is usin... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Boat rescue crew member, James Crary, is dashing down the pier from the U.W. Lifesaving Services facility to board the rescue boat," Isabel III," to help a... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the U.W. Lifesaving Services rescue boat, "Isabel III," with Captain Harvey Black at the helm speeding to assist a distressed boa... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Captain Harvey Black, in aviator sunglasses at the helm, skippers the rescue boat, "Isabel III," speeding towards a stranded sail boater on Lake Mendota. T... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A new red, white and blue mail truck is displayed at the Madison Post Office garage. A poster on the side of the truck reads: "Don't be a Hurry Bug — Slow ... |
| Date: | 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Participants with lit candles in a mortgage-burning ceremony at Trousdal Methodist Church located at 1125 Vilas Avenue, include Rev. R.D. Robinson (pastor ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Bjarne Bendixson on his hands and knees, leaning over his dog, Sandy, wrapped in a blanket. They were saved by their housekeeper when fire flashed through ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1957 |
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| Description: | A fire chief is surveying the damage from a kitchen fire at 906 East Mifflin Street in Madison, while the fire fighters are sweeping up with brooms. |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A tree is lying against a house at 3534 East Washington Avenue. The workers who cut the tree down said it had been weakened by high winds the day before. |
| Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Air Guard Lt. Dan Torphy preparing for a training flight from Truax Field by putting on a Mae West life preserver over his flight suit. He is being helped ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | A policeman and a night watchman narrowly escaped injury when a huge mound of excavated dirt fell on a house adjacent to the new State Office building cons... |
| Date: | 08 01 1957 |
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| Description: | North Western Railroad employees attempt to demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard at Commercial and Sherman Avenues. Groups of me... |
| Date: | 08 01 1957 |
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| Description: | North Western Railroad employees attempt to demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard at Commercial and Sherman Avenue. The first att... |
| Date: | 08 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Dane County nurses and secretaries mop the floor of their third-floor public Health Department offices in the City-County Building after a faulty automatic... |
| Date: | 09 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A motorist-eye view through the windshield towards a State Highway Patrol car parked beside a Wisconsin highway. The photographer, sitting in the backseat ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Coroner Michael Malloy standing inside the blast-damaged Pyramid Motors garage at 434 West Gilman street and pointing at a paint can and hot plate that cau... |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Three firemen are spraying water on a fire at the abandoned North Western Railway ice house, located on South Brearly Street along the railroad tracks betw... |
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