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Cave-in on Monona Avenue

Date: 11 19 1933
Description: Cave-in on Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard), caused by a water main leak. View is looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol, with automob...
Photograph

Bank Building Fire

Date: 11 19 1950
Description: Fire damage in the basement of the Capital City Bank building, 111 King Street. A man wearing boots surveys the rubble.
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Ruins of Rome

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Description: View from street of the Farmers and Merchants Bank after a fire. All that's left standing is its neo-classical marble facade with columns framing a doorway...
Drawing

Milwaukee Bank Riot

Date: 1897
Description: Drawing depicting the Milwaukee Bank Riot of June 24, 1861. A large crowd is gathered outside the State Bank and Mitchell's Bank. A fire burns in the stree...
Photograph

Water Pipe Break at Main Street and Monona Avenue

Date: 10 29 1957
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...
Postcard

Roof of the Juneau County Bank after the Cyclone

Date: 10 10 1913
Description: View of the blown-off roof of a bank. Caption reads: "Roof of Juneau County Bank after the Cyclone, Oct. 10, 1913, Mauston, Wis."

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