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| Date: | 11 1883 |
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| Description: | The ruins of the unfinished South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after its collapse while still under construction. |
| Date: | 11 1883 |
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| Description: | View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol showing the ruins of the South Wing addition after it collapsed during construction. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol after the unfinished South Wing collapsed on November 8, 1883. Defective workmanship and shoddy construction materials ca... |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, rear exterior view of damaged roof and gutter. |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Interior view of ceiling of Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota Wisconsin, showing water damage. Sign over the door says "Couples... |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Interier view of Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota Wisconsin, showing water damage on arch above the booths. |
| Date: | 08 19 1932 |
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| Description: | Collapsed Conklin Icehouse from Lake Wingra. |
| Date: | 08 19 1932 |
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| Description: | Close-up of collapsed Conklin Icehouse at Lake Wingra. |
| Date: | 08 19 1932 |
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| Description: | Close-up of rotted timbers at collapsed Conklin Icehouse at Lake Wingra. |
| Date: | 05 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Collapsed back wall of Netherwood's Printing Co., at 519 State Street. |
| Date: | 12 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Heidelberg Hofbrau restaurant roof after a fire. The photograph was taken from a nearby building's roof, alternate view. |
| Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Tornado damage at Truax Field area. Paul Gritzmacher and a cow are in the damaged barn. |
| Date: | 04 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Ruins of Top Hat nightclub, Middleton Road, destroyed in a $100,000 fire. Middleton police are investigating the possibility of arson. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A child, possibly Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones, stands near the wreckage of a wooden structure caused by ice break-up on Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 05 05 1950 |
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| Description: | View down East Wilson Street where the plate glass windows of three storefronts were shattered during a high wind storm that hit Madison. The three stores,... |
| Date: | 07 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Four people are in the foreground overlooking two storm damaged large trailer homes, one piled on top of another. They and the trailers are at Elver Traile... |
| Date: | 02 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Jerry Hjert, director and John Custer, technical director of the Madison Theater Guild, foreground, survey the ruins of the Madison Civic Opera's scenery a... |
| 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 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... |
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| Description: | View from street towards a building that has collapsed. There is a sidewalk in the foreground, and trees surround the building. A body of water is in the b... |
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