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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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | House surrounded by high water on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| Date: | 05 21 1933 |
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| Description: | Two men examine a break in the dike and the wash out damage at Forest Hill Cemetery, Section 22. The house in the background is located at 454 Virginia Ter... |
| Date: | 05 21 1933 |
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| Description: | View of Forest Hill Cemetery behind 440 Virginia Terrace, showing damage to dike. |
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| Description: | Furrows plowed to stop a forest fire in Douglas County along County N, west of Solon Springs. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard... |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | City of Chicago ambulance personnel are loading a person involved in an accident into an International ambulance as a small group of people are looking on.... |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 02 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Orpheum and Capitol theatre ushers listening to a talk about fire prevention as they are standing beneath a marquee that advertises the epic "Cimarron." |
| Date: | 04 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin River in flood, looking downstream. |
| Date: | 03 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Living room wall and fireplace after the Bane residence explosion in North Bay, Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 03 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Upstairs bedroom of Bane residence damaged by explosion at North Bay, Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 03 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Upstairs bedroom of Bane residence damaged by explosion at North Bay, Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 03 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Basement after explosion, at the Bane residence at North Bay, Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Damaged pump house after an oil tank explosion at Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 27 1941 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman and Robert "Bob" Brayton, Public Relations Director or the American Automobile Association. They are standing in front... |
| Date: | 02 22 1942 |
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| Description: | Burned-out Beran's D-X Diamond Mid-Continent Service Station, 118 King Street, at the corner of South Webster, including Kellogg's Cereal and Schlitz Beer ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1942 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the burned out cab af a Gateway truck in a repair shop. |
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