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Rural Automobile Accident

Date: 08 18 1939
Description: View from front of Capital City Culvert Company automobile involved in an accident with a Phillips Produce Company egg truck at the intersection of County ...
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Zimmerman and Brayton

Date: 05 27 1941
Description: Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman and Robert "Bob" Brayton, Public Relations Director or the American Automobile Association. They are standing in front...
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Damaged Car in Schultz Garage

Date: 07 09 1941
Description: Three-quarter rear view from right of a damaged car in Schultz Body Co. garage, 1336 Regent Street. A mechanic is standing in the background.
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Car Wreck, East Johnson Street

Date: 08 27 1934
Description: Two men are looking at a damaged automobile belonging to Elmer Meixner, DeForest, after a collision with a Milwaukee Road train at the East Johnson Street...
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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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Damaged Automobiles at Accident Site

Date: 04 15 1934
Description: Damaged automobiles of Leo Maly and August Steinhagen at scene of accident at Middleton Junction Road. Leo Maly was killed, his wife, Edna, and son, Paul, ...
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Highway View, Car on Highway 51

Date: 10 20 1931
Description: View looking down road (east-south east) towards the rear of a car parked in the right lane of a two lane highway. This was the scene of an accident, and i...
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Pushing Wrecked Car

Date: 09 03 1931
Description: Otto Bosshard standing in the background watching motorcycle patrolman Calbert James Sparks and a spectator push his wrecked car off a safety island at the...
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Policeman at Fair Oaks Avenue Accident

Date: 06 30 1931
Description: Policeman and another man (possibly Aldro Wasley) on Fair Oaks Avenue at scene of automobile accident. There is a University Floral Co. truck in background...
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Truck and Train Crash

Date: 11 05 1930
Description: Men looking at a crushed Wisconsin Telephone Company truck as the result of an accident with the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive.
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Garfield Street Accident Scene

Date: 02 07
Description: Accident scene between truck driven by Clyde Holmes and Donald Marking, age eight, who was struck and killed while sledding. View shows the alley between 1...
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Greyhound Bus Accident Scene

Date: 08 17 1946
Description: Skid-path of the Greyhound bus that crashed on Highway 12 about 2 miles east of Madison. The bus left the highway, plunged 200 feet along a ditch, hit a d...
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Accident at Park and Regent Streets

Date: 05 24 1948
Description: County traffic officers Ray Case (left) and Henry Gerry are placing Elmer C. Evans, with head and face lacerations, in an ambulance to take him to the Jack...
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Dane County Delegation to the Centennial Exposition

Date: 08 18 1948
Description: The delegation of state, county, city, university, and business officials is shown as the caravan is about to leave from the Dane County Courthouse, 207 We...
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Suburban Police Officers

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Shorewood Hills marshalls Lee Cripps and Frank Ashworth measuring skid marks at an accident scene.
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Two-Car Accident

Date: 1920
Description: Two damaged cars are parked on the curb of a residential street. People can be seen behind the cars, a tow truck is parked on the opposite side of the stre...
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Car Wreck and Train

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr....
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Automobile Accident

Date: 08 14 1951
Description: Police investigator Boyd Hustad examines the car which a Chicago couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lee, and two children were riding in when it struck the Runion c...
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Lewis Arms with Crashed Rental Car

Date: 04 1946
Description: Lewis Arms stands next to a damaged 1946 Chevrolet which had been rented from Friede Rent-A-Car. Arms and Bert Rogers had been traveling to Milwaukee in th...
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Car Falls in Midvale Drainage Ditch

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: Winter scene with garagemen retrieving another car from the open drainage ditch on Midvale Boulevard. The 1959 Dodge skidded into a snowbank and catapulted...

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