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Car Wreck, Sun Prairie Road

Date: 08 03 1934
Description: View down road towards a group of people looking at an overturned automobile belonging to Fred Swanson. Fred and Norma Swanson, Dorothy Thompson, Edward an...
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Behr Residence Showing Where Child Fell

Date: 10 23 1930
Description: Behr residence, with a dotted line and an "x" showing where a child fell.
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Accident at Madison East Side Festival

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: The Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, scene of an accident in which a teenage girl, Lois Bailey, suffered injuries after being thrown fr...
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Pigs Loose in Nakoma

Date: 02 25 1947
Description: Pigs in fenced-in tennis court at Nakoma Park on Nakoma Road. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block of Nakoma Road near the arbore...
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Ice Damage to Shoreline

Date: 03 16 1949
Description: Ice damage to boats along the shoreline of Lake Mendota at Warner Park.
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Upside Down Bancroft Delivery Truck

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Description: An upside down Bancroft delivery truck. A man is standing just behind the front tires. On the right, a "Dane County Police Traffic" car can be seen behind ...
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Tree Crashed Into Apartment House

Date: 07 02 1958
Description: Susan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Summers, standing indoors next to the window that was smashed by an old willow tree that split and crashed into ...
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Automobile Retrieved from Midvale Boulevard Ditch

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue.

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