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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: | 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: | 05 19 1937 |
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| Description: | Harry Stiles and Converse Hettinger, two school safety patrol boys from Portage, Wisconsin, on their way to a national safety patrol conclave in Washington... |
| 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: | 10 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Behr residence, with a dotted line and an "x" showing where a child fell. |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Dane County Oil Company, 1854 South Park Street, following an explosion of an anti-freeze can which killed one person and injured five. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | A flock of gulls flying over a runway at Truax Field, menacing aircraft and raising concerns for safety. |
| Date: | 10 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Bert F. Crary, an employee at Truax Municipal Airport, holding three seagulls killed by an airplane as it landed at the airport. |
| Date: | 09 05 1947 |
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| Description: | The train engineer's view (looking east) of the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at Regent Street, Breeze Terrace, and Little Street, taken one-hundred f... |
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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: | 02 06 1963 |
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| Description: | $25,000 estimated damage was caused when a semi-trailer loaded with Mercedes-Benz engines crashed into a railroad viaduct on Troy Drive near School Road. T... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) is rescued from an abandoned drainage pipe at Truax Park. A rescue crew member carries her bundled in a blanket to a police car for... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the... |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue. |
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