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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company grain elevator at the Milwaukee harbor, with a sailing ship anchored nearby. |
| Date: | 12 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Heidelberg Hofbrau restaurant roof after a fire. The photograph was taken from a nearby building's roof, alternate view. |
| Date: | 03 05 1908 |
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| Description: | The Sturgeon Bay High School after the fire the destroyed the building on March 5, 1908. Handwriting on front reads: "S.B. H.S. After Fire Mar. 5, 08 — A.S... |
| Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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| Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the bleacher exploded as the nigh... |
| Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble... |
| Date: | 07 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Tornado damage in Truax Field area. The Anderson house chimney was damaged, and the trees surrounding it were uprooted. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the ruins after the fire of April 28, 1875. |
| Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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| Description: | High water has scattered timber pilings through the construction camp. The office is on the right; the smokestacks of the temporary power plant are behind ... |
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| Description: | A large building has partially collapsed from a fire. Fire fighters, some of them standing on the roof of a building next door, aim large streams of water ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from rooftop of smoke billowing out of the roof of a burning brick building. Fire fighters are climbing on ladders on the side of the buildin... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children. |
| Date: | 10 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Side view of tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, showing the lone window of the tiny sleeping room (far... |
| 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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| Description: | Elevated view of a flood scene showing East State Street with people on a wooden makeshift raft investigating. They are floating past stores and markets. I... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand near a fireplace and other rubble of a burned Freedom House used by civil rights workers. The house was "burned down in the middle ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand near a fireplace and other rubble of a burned Freedom House used by civil rights workers. The house was "burned down in the middle ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1924 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the canning factory in the aftermath of a tornado. The top of the brick structure and the smokestack has been blown off. Pil... |
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