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: | 10 27 1954 |
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Description: | Ida Huff and William Aspinwall, Jr. answer a surprise alert phone call for a test of emergency services response while seated in an automobile. |
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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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... |
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... |
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