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| 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: | 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster warning against carelessness around elevators. Includes an image of a woman scrubbing floors. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man pouring ashes from a bucket into a larger metal container. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and bonnet empties a pail of ashes into a refuse pile in the front yard of a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 04 24 1926 |
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| Description: | A child wearing a coat and hat is throwing rocks into an open cistern in what appears to be an alleyway between two buildings. The wooden cistern lid is ly... |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A refuse pile consisting of glass, a broken basket, bottles, cans, and other items behind a farmhouse. A crumbling foundation is in the background. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a pile of garbage in a farmhouse attic consisting of metal pieces, pipes, machine parts, and other items. |
| Date: | 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Gasoline and kerosene cans stand side by side on a shelf at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm, demonstrating a farm hazard. |
| Date: | 07 1926 |
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| Description: | View of a pressure tank for a Coleman Air Gas stove placed on a wooden crate outside of a building on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm,... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is using a funnel to siphon gasoline from a tank into a pail while smoking a pipe. The photograph was staged on the K. Legge Memorial Farm to demonst... |
| Date: | 03 1928 |
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| Description: | Power lines along both sides of railroad tracks running through a rural area. |
| Date: | 05 26 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is filling a metal pitcher with oil from a barrel stored in a garage with litter on the ground, illustrating a farm hazard. |
| Date: | 05 26 1926 |
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| Description: | A sign reading: "Walk on Left" is posted on a power line pole. A man is walking on the left side of a rural road in the background as a truck drives by. |
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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: | 01 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house, 146 Langdon Street, is extensively damaged by water and ice when a faulty furnace failed during overnight freezing temperat... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) waiting for rescue workers to free her right leg caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Her father Michael B. Palmer, at ... |
| 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: | 09 30 1921 |
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| Description: | Collapsed fence along roadside. Power poles are along the road on the left and right. |
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