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 28 1932 |
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Description: | Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a... |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Cartoon showing a man looking at the following text: "Look at the facts, in 11 days war casualties 15,883, civilian casualties 24,812." |
Date: | 02 08 1953 |
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Description: | Crowd gathered around the shore of Monona Bay where Joel Hansen drowned, and his half brother Tommy Blankenheim was rescued. |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Two men in oxygen helmets outside of the Cherry, Illinois, mining disaster. |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | The ruins of the fan house and escape shaft after a mining disaster at Cherry mine. A group of men and children are standing in the foreground. |
Date: | 11 18 1909 |
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Description: | Miners building a temporary hoisting apparatus after the November 13, 1909, disaster at Cherry mine in Illinois where 400 men were entombed. |
Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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Description: | John J. Walsh, Madison attorney-at-law, standing next to the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, the scene of an accident in which a teena... |
Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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Description: | Photograph of Lois Bailey, who was thrown from the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, suffering injuries to her face and head. |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | Unprotected railroad crossings were a particular hazard for automobiles as this 1923 poster issued by the American Railroad Association dramatically points... |
Date: | 09 17 1945 |
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Description: | The body of Donald Bruer in his coffin. Donald, 3 years old, fell from a third floor window and was impaled on a picket fence. |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood. |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | Industrial safety poster warning against carelessness around elevators. Includes an image of a woman scrubbing floors. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Industrial safety sign or poster featuring the "grim reaper" and advising factory workers to "be a booster for safety." The sign reads: "Gambling With Fate... |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | A safety cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon appears under the heading: "Operating Your Tractor". The cartoon depicts a ... |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | A cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon appears under the heading: "Operating Your Tractor". The cartoon depicts a man ope... |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | A from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon appears cartoon under the heading: "Operating the Diesel Engine". The cartoon depicts a ma... |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | A cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon appears under the heading: "Starting the Tractor". The cartoon depicts a man on a ... |
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