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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: | Citizens look on as City of Chicago emergency personnel and others carry an injured boy at an accident scene. The event was most likely a staged exercise. ... |
| 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: | 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: | 06 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Civil Air Corps card, Escanaba chapter, issued to Meinhardt Raabe. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken through the broken windshield of a Wisconsin State highway patrol car. The patrolmen are at the scene of an automobile accident somewhere ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1979 |
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| Description: | Emergency workers assist the passenger injured in an accident at North Sherman Boulevard and W. North Avenue. The automobile, which was driven by a ninete... |
| 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: | 07 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) lifts dirt into a dump truck. Original caption reads: "An International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTor equipped w... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men working on relief tractors on a flatbed railroad car for delivery to "tri-state tornado" victims. |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Men load relief tractors onto an International Harvester sales and service truck for delivery to victims of the "tri-state tornado." They appear to be movi... |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men working on a McCormick-Deering 10-20 relief tractor. They are working in the street, and storefronts are behind them. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men preparing newly arrived and unloaded McCormick-Deering relief tractors near railroad tracks. The tractors appear to be 10-20s. |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Men driving thirteen McCormick-Deering relief tractors down a dirt road for delivery to the victims of the "tri-state tornado." There are people watching f... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men are standing under a flagpole at the entrance of the Red Cross Headquarters. An International Red Baby truck is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Boys using hand tools to work in a field. A mule-drawn wagon is in the background. They are all wearing hats and overalls. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to drag metal pieces from a "tri-state tornado" damaged residential area. The trees along the street have bro... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Side view of an International truck used as a mobile disaster unit by the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross. The truck is parked in what appears to... |
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