Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | A page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper detailing the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, in 1860. One sketch is of Edward... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye map after a fire destroyed a large area of the town. In memory of the Great Conflagration on April 28th, 1875. Taken from the North-Side. |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | A fire fighter stands over a fire as he trains his hose on the flames. This depicts the close proximity to the fire fire fighters were required to work be... |
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Description: | Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. The school burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. It burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December 1878, b... |
Date: | 1869 |
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Description: | View of the McFarland Lutheran church and cemetery. The church was started in 1869 and in use in 1873. It was dedicated on January 23, 1876. The church w... |
Date: | 03 05 1908 |
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Description: | A photograph with the top half showing the intact Sturgeon Bay High School and the bottom half showing the Sturgeon Bay High School on fire. |
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Description: | Four boys are posing standing and sitting among the debris of a collapsed wooden building at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, probably caused by a tornado. ... |
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Description: | Group of men and women looking at the debris of a building, possibly a house, destroyed by a tornado. Wreckage of an automobile on the left. |
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Description: | Tree uprooted near the grandstand at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, probably by a tornado. |
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Description: | Collapsed wooden building, possibly at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, probably due to a tornado. |
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Description: | Debris of wood and board scattered around a field, probably due to a tornado. Group of people in the distance on the left side of the image. |
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Description: | Frame house on fire, and men standing on stone fence in front of the burning building. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Building on fire, probably the McGillavray Sash and Door Company in the summer of 1912. The fire probably started from sparks from a steam engine used to f... |
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Description: | Pontoon bridge across the river on Fillmore Street built after the 1911 flood. |
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Description: | Men filling in Main Street after the 1911 flood. Forms are probably for the basement of the Cozy Corner Tavern. |
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Description: | Man riding a horse into town, in front of the old Catholic Church which lost its steeple in a storm. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Remains of building foundations after a large fire. The firefire was believed to be incendiary in origin, arising from a feud between owners over land clai... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Town with logs overflowing the river into yards, probably the Ice Gorge of 1876. |
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