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| Date: | 01 08 1946 |
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| Description: | View down middle of East Wilson Street at the center of South Hancock looking Northeast, taken at site of Reynolds Bus accident. Businesses shown include D... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Bow of the sidewheel packet, "Quincy," sunk in 1906. People are standing on temporary pier beside her. Later raised and renamed the "J.S." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Pictures and diagrams mounted on a wall in a "new building" at International Harvester's Deering Works. The display was part of an industrial exhibit and d... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers operating machines at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The original caption reads: "Use of photograph questioned by Industrial Relations De... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Damaged English Singer sports car on the street, E. Washington Avenue, with Brayton School in the background. |
| Date: | 11 30 1934 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a group of people looking at the automobile driven by W.B. Peterson which climbed the concrete abutment guarding a safety island... |
| Date: | 08 03 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Cave-in on Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard), caused by a water main leak. View is looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol, with automob... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety sign or poster featuring the "grim reaper" and advising factory workers to "be a booster for safety." The sign reads: "Gambling With Fate... |
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| Description: | View of the aftermath of a wreck involving railroad cars hauling sand at the Town Creek construction site. |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards collapsed floor on second level, with factory floor below. Brick wall along opposite side. |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards brick wall and window of debris from floor collapse in factory building. |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | View looking down through a hole in the collapsed plant floor at McCormick Works. The first floor and windows in the brick wall are below. |
| Date: | 07 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards the side of an Illinois Northern railroad train, with two engines, a coal car and a car with the front wall burst out. At McCormick Works. The... |
| Date: | 01 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two people breaking ice with an ax and an ice breaking pole [a gaff?]; other people in the background are standing in a boat pushing poles... |
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