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| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | Collapsed wall ice house showing a broken concrete wall in Pardeeville. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | Collapsed ice house in Pardeeville. A roof and debris are in the foreground, and trees and buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the roof of a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a collapsed ice house towards the shoreline looking north. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. The school burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. It burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December 1878, b... |
| Date: | 03 15 1866 |
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| Description: | People gather the morning after a fire that destroyed Dixon's store as well as $100,000 worth of goods and eleven other places of business. The flames were... |
| Date: | 10 13 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the... |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arlington in Columbia Cou... |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Topographic map of the Wisconsin River done under direction of Daniel Meade for construction of the Kilbourn dam by the Southern Wisconsin Power Company. I... |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Strong winds brought down a large tree on the car of Mrs. Ralph Schroeder of rural Ft. Atkinson. She and her son narrowly escaped serious injury. |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Strong winds brought down a large tree on the car of Mrs. Ralph Schroeder of rural Ft. Atkinson. She and her son Ralph, age 3, narrowly escaped serious inj... |
| Date: | 09 27 1908 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front right of the badly damaged Engine No. 423 of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. The boiler remains on the railroad ... |
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