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| Date: | 09 03 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | Police Sgt. Richard H. Rossmaessler is shown with various explosive devices that injured three boys in a quarry blast explosion. |
| Date: | 11 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Dane County Traffic Police receiving first aid training. Officer E.W. Kelzenberg on the left, Lieut. A.C. Pope in the middle, and Officer Ralph Conklin on... |
| Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Public officials inspecting the damage and debris from a fatal fire in the Dane County Jail. The fire was started by two inmates, one of whom died in the e... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Robert O'Neil looking at charred doll and little red boots found in the debris in the room in a tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dane County Traffic Officer Robert Waldron who was injured in fighting the fire at the tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street, where Flor... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Police officers Robert O'Neil (left) and Frank Eisele standing next to the charred crib from which infant Walter Alburn, Jr. was rescued by neighbors in th... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Police officers Frank Eisele and Robert O'Neil examining the explosion-wrecked stove and the kerosene can from which resident Walter Alburn poured kerosene... |
| Date: | 03 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Walter E. Randall looking at fire damage to the bedroom of Dorothy Meager, 111 North Blair Street. |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert S. Lincoln, 3118 Buena Vista Street, receives an award from police officer Lester Shore for her "heroine efforts" in saving 3-year-old Kurt Wis... |
| Date: | 02 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Dane County Traffic Lieutenant Arden C. Pope teaches grade school students the rules of riding bicycles and walking safely on highways. |
| Date: | 02 05 1951 |
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| Description: | As Paoli grade school children watch, Lieutenant Arden C. Pope, head of the Dane County traffic safety division, presents badges and belts for school patro... |
| Date: | 01 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Carol Jean Brown, the six-year-old daughter of Donald and Eugenia Brown, 2917 Monroe Street, fell through the ice on the Lake Wingra lagoon near Arbor Driv... |
| Date: | 12 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Onlookers are standing in the street as a fire burns at Quality Service Laundry, 1202 Regent Street, showing the corner of Regent and Charter Streets. |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| Description: | A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building... |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| Description: | A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company, 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building, known as the Burrows building,... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1959 |
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| Description: | An Illinois couple, unaware of Madison's pedestrian safety laws, were seriously injured by a car while jaywalking across East Washington Avenue. Police and... |
| Date: | 10 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Close to $40,000 in damage caused by a workman's torch occurred at the newly constructed Imperial Apartments located at 3803 Monona Drive, Monona, adjacen... |
| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| Description: | A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com... |
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