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| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | City of Chicago ambulance personnel are loading a person involved in an accident into an International ambulance as a small group of people are looking on.... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Two men standing outside the Indiana Farm Bureau relief depot. The building appears to be under construction, with no doors or windows in place, and lumber... |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men posing around a McCormick-Deering tractor in front of a Mobiloil station on a road. The tractor appears to be a 10-20. |
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| Description: | A view of the station and an outbuilding. A man stands in front of the building. Caption reads: "Ditch Plain Life Saving Station, Montauk, L.I., N.Y." |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen points out one of the civil defense decals which are being placed on all Madison buses. The decals state that the buses are pledged fo... |
| 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: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Debris from the collapse of the Twin Towers in the churchyard at St. Paul's Church near the World Trader Center, a few days after 9/11. |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| Description: | Gundersen Tri-State ambulance and fire truck personnel rescue a man who may have had a seizure at the Bimbo Bakery. The vehicles are parked in the street, ... |
| Date: | 10 16 1965 |
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| Description: | During a practice disaster drill, a nurse and a man are seen with a "casualty" on a stretcher at the Madison General Hospital emergency room. In this drill... |
| Date: | 06 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Crowds standing in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior. People are being rescued with a ladder and others have esca... |
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