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| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Damaged pump house after an oil tank explosion at Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue. |
| 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 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Four children are looking at the ruins of the Royal Airport hangar after a fire. |
| Date: | 08 16 1932 |
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| Description: | People looking at the ruins of the Royal Airport hangar and office after a fire. Viewed from the southwest. |
| Date: | 08 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the Royal Airport hangar after a fire. Viewed from the road. |
| Date: | 02 03 1932 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a White Motor Company Northland Greyhound Lines damaged bus. |
| Date: | 06 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Several men try to extinquish a fire in an ice house, which is known as the Conklin Fire. |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a fire damaged beer delivery truck with "Got It? Get It!" painted on its doors. An exploding oil furnace destroyed the interior of the Madison... |
| Date: | 12 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Man standing on bulk tanks at Cities Service Oil Company Plant, 815 East Main Street, where an explosion killed welder Harold Michelson. |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Robert Nuckles (left); Mrs. Earl Siggelkow, McFarland; George Solsrud; and Laura Palmer washing dishes in halved oil drums during a Civil Defense emergency... |
| Date: | 05 07 1956 |
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| Description: | As part of a practice drill to prepare for possible disasters, three Explorer Scouts practice first aid techniques on a "disaster victim" lying on a stretc... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Four Madison city park department employees would go into action in case of enemy attack or any major-sized natural catastrophe. Pictured are Charles Breit... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Four people demonstrate how old oil drums cut in half can be used to wash dishes as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instructi... |
| Date: | 11 06 1964 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters battling a fire at the Art Brush Creations and Industrial Research printing plant in downtown Middleton. |
| 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: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the damage from the fire. Burned logs are in the foreground, and pieces of burned and broken machinery is among the broken foundation. Men... |
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