Date: | 09 03 1931 |
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Description: | Otto Bosshard standing in the background watching motorcycle patrolman Calbert James Sparks and a spectator push his wrecked car off a safety island at the... |
Date: | 11 16 1945 |
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Description: | Dane County Traffic Police receiving first aid training. Officer E.W. Kelzenberg on the left, Lieut. A.C. Pope in the middle, and Officer Ralph Conklin on... |
Date: | 04 11 1950 |
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Description: | Richard "Dick" Amelong, age 13, of 2618 Stevens Street was cited as a neighborhood hero because he came to the assistance of a neighborhood woman who was s... |
Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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Description: | Edith Getz (left), Lillian Fried, and George Bernhagen cooking pancakes on an improvised grill during a Civil Defence emergency mass-feeding practice. |
Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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Description: | Helen Giessel (left) and Avis MacLean make an improvised plate and cup during a Civil Defence emergency mass-feeding practice event. |
Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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Description: | Robert Nuckles (left); Mrs. Earl Siggelkow, McFarland; George Solsrud; and Laura Palmer washing dishes in halved oil drums during a Civil Defense emergency... |
Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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Description: | Mrs. Ryerson (left) and Melvin Dykman use shovels to build a brick stove during a Civil Defense emergency mass-feeding practice. Katheryn Henning stacks la... |
Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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Description: | Eldred Heiser (left), Isabelle Hyslop, and Janet DePiazza gather around an oven/kettle intended for cooking soup, meats, and stews during a Civil Defense e... |
Date: | 05 07 1956 |
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Description: | As part of a practice drill to prepare for possible disasters, Explorer Scouts David Ahlgren (left) and Richard Klatt rehearse delivering food, medical sup... |
Date: | 05 07 1956 |
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Description: | As part of a practice drill to prepare for possible disasters, three Explorer Scouts practice first aid techniques on a "disaster victim" lying on a stretc... |
Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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Description: | Four Madison city park department employees would go into action in case of enemy attack or any major-sized natural catastrophe. Pictured are Charles Breit... |
Date: | 08 26 1956 |
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Description: | Shown in this simulation of the scene of a catastrophe is one of nine mobile medical teams which Madison can furnish to the State Civil Defense Mobile Medi... |
Date: | 11 25 1960 |
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Description: | Two Rhesus monkeys are still at large after about four months of freedom. Thirty-three monkeys escaped from a Vilas Park zoo cage on August 4, 1960. Zoo di... |
Date: | 11 19 1960 |
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Description: | The University of Minnesota football team beat the University of Wisconsin Badgers 26-7. The victory gave the Minnesota Gophers a tie with Iowa for the Big... |
Date: | 02 25 1961 |
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Description: | Madison Explorer Scouts climbing aboard an Air Force truck for a weekend of emergency duty training near Devils Lake. The staged search for Truax Field air... |
Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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Description: | View towards a small group of people watching as fire destroys the Hotel Washington. Behind them is an American Red Cross disaster services vehicle. |
Date: | 09 28 1961 |
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Description: | Jerome A. Gumbinger, a member of the state fire prevention conference's planning committee, watches as two staff members demonstrate a technique for evacua... |
Date: | 10 01 1964 |
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Description: | The American Radio Relay League sponsors a communications and rescue drill based on a simulated flood near Verona. 30 workers and 35 mobile communications ... |
Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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Description: | A tree is lying against a house at 3534 East Washington Avenue. The workers who cut the tree down said it had been weakened by high winds the day before. |
Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
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