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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Boy standing among the wreckage of various farm structures and implements apparently after a wind storm or tornado. |
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| Description: | A large wave is breaking against the side of the Milwaukee breakwater lighthouse. There is a ship on the left, in the distance beyond the jetty. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) at University of Wisconsin-Madison during a spring sleet storm. The trees in front of the building are coated in ice. A pedestr... |
| Date: | 10 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers repair an electrical pole that was partially blown over during a wind storm. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Regent Street and West... |
| Date: | 05 18 1966 |
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| Description: | An upland field prepared for planting. In the distance, several farm buildings are visible beneath large storm clouds. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rear view of an automobile resting alongside a snow-filled Michigan Avenue during the winter. Other automobiles are parked near commercial buildings in the... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Damage caused by a tornado to a barn near Reseburg. The caption notes that the farm was rented and that "moonshine" was being made there. Some locals at t... |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Gerual Simonsen's barn, on the edge of Cambridge, destroyed by a wind storm. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | "Spectacular lightning lights up the sky on a summer evening." |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "The Lomira Legion building is framed in the arch of the Highway 67 overhead." |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "The tornado destroyed the Martin & Marcella Enderle home." |
| Date: | 08 07 1924 |
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| Description: | Ruins after a tornado. Demolished farm buildings, wagons and a windmill. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A man walks through debris along a metal railing at Cottonwood Villa after an ice storm. The lake, with houses and trees along the shoreline are in the bac... |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| Description: | Beth, a neighbor of the photographer, smoking during a snowstorm on 7th Street. She is wearing a brown sweater with a shawl collar, an unzipped red coat, a... |
| Date: | 04 23 1965 |
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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles' Command Post, located in the Capitol, was called into action after tornadoes struck southern Wisconsin. It serves as the disaster ... |
| Date: | 06 2014 |
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| Description: | A Sony T.V. is sitting on top of a speaker in front of two windows with window blinds. On the screen, a man wearing a suit is standing in front of a screen... |
| Date: | 05 1914 |
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| Description: | A large section of roof is on the ground in the foreground, sections of timber framing have collapsed, and exposed framing on a standing section of a build... |
| Date: | 05 1914 |
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| Description: | Boards are scattered on the ground after a "cyclone" on the Frank B. Fargo farm. There is a large section of roof on the ground. In the background is a sec... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across State Street towards several buildings on the 100 block. On the far left next to Dyers Shoes is Collector's Shop Stamps and Coins. The next bui... |
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