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Cab after Traffic Accident

Date: 08 27 1946
Description: A City Car Company cab on its roof after a collision with a bus at the corner of Mills and Regent Streets. The car skidded 42 feet from the point of impac...
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Cab-Bus Collision

Date: 08 26 1946
Description: Overturned taxicab, after collision with a city bus at the corner of Regent and Mills Street, injuring four people. Also shows a crowd of people looking on...
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Passenger Train and Truck Accident

Date: 03 27 1947
Description: Northwestern passenger train and truck collision at Commercial Avenue crossing in which two people, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Thompson (Alice) were killed. T...
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Accident at Park and Regent Streets

Date: 05 24 1948
Description: A police ambulance, speeding a 3-year old, David King, seriously injured accident victim to a hospital, crashed into a Padgham Painting Co. truck, driven b...
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Accident at Park and Regent Streets

Date: 05 24 1948
Description: Injured police ambulance driver Paul Klinglehofer is assisted by Officer C.J. Sparks. Klinglehofer was taken to Madison General Hospital with bruises and s...
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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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Crashed Automobile

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Crashed automobile on tow truck, with traffic officer, Russell Klitzman, and deputy sheriff, Eldon Johnson, viewing the car.
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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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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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Ice Truck Wreck

Date: 03 24 1950
Description: An ice truck is lying overturned on Highways 12-13 after encountering a patch of ice near Club Chanticleer west of Middleton. The truck and load of ice ove...
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Auto Accident

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: A crowd of onlookers surrounds a wrecked automobile. The accident occurred at Highway 30 and North Fair Oaks Avenue.
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Wrecked Car in Garage

Date: 12 21 1950
Description: A damaged car parked in a repair shop as a result of an auto accident at West Main and South Bassett Streets during a snow storm on December 7th. The car w...
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Cottages

Date: 1920
Description: View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r...
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Auto Accident — Airman Killed

Date: 08 09 1953
Description: A group of Madison residents view the twisted hulk of a car in which David Huse, an airman at Truax Field, was killed. The accident occurred 4 miles south ...
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Two Automobiles in an Accident

Date: 1921
Description: View of the front of two automobiles, one of them a Ford Model T (right), with crumpled fenders resting against each other near the curb. The car on the l...

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