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Accident in Milwaukee

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Description: On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover.
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Fallen Tree on Automobile

Date: 10 04 1963
Description: A man surveys the damage to his car, and the aged tree that toppled onto it.
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Milwaukee Grain Elevator

Date: 1870
Description: The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company grain elevator at the Milwaukee harbor, with a sailing ship anchored nearby.
Photograph

Wrecked Automobile

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: A wrecked automobile, which crashed during the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize Race (later called the American Grand Prix); possibly car #35, in which driver Ra...
Photograph

Motorcycle Collision

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Description: Motorcycle race contestant overturned on the track after collision with haybales.
Postcard

Collapse of a Structure

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Description: View across what may be a metal roof towards a crowd of men looking at a collapsed structure of steel girders. The men are dressed in winter coats and hats...
Postcard

Collapse of Large Structure near Coal Pile

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Description: View across railroads tracks towards men walking around and examining a large industrial structure that has collapsed over a coal pile.
Postcard

Collapse of a Structure

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Description: Group portrait of men wearing winter coats and hats. They are standing on a metal roof, examining a large collapsed industrial structure which is behind th...
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Collapse of a Structure

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Description: Men and women walking around piles of coal while examining a collapsed structure in a coal yard.

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