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View of Town With Flood Damage

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Description: Elevated view of Black River Falls after the flood of 1911. Several men and youth are visible in the foreground, in addition to the new dam construction.
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Men Working on Relief Tractor

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Three men working on a McCormick-Deering 10-20 relief tractor. They are working in the street, and storefronts are behind them.
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Relief Tractors

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Men readying a line of McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractors for delivery for "tri-state tornado" victims. The tractors are parked in a row near what appears to...
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Man Driving Relief Tractor

Date: 04 15 1925
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...
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Group with McCormick-Deering Relief Tractor

Date: 1925
Description: A group of men gathering around a McCormick-Deering relief tractor in an area damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractor may be an 10-20.
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Tornado Relief Effort Operations

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Elevated view of people working with the relief effort in the aftermath of a tornado. Boxes of supplies are piled near a man in the foreground, and a man h...
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Men and Women Surrounded by Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: In the foreground a small group of men and women stand surrounded by the debres from a tornado. Storm damaged houses and relief workers are visible in the ...
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Men Working Among Tornado Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A group of men working in the debris left in the wake of a tornado. A large column is leaning against part of a wall or foundation.
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Obey and Young at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) and Florida Congressman Young tour the destruction at the World Trade Center with an FBI guide a few days after...
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Clinton at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Former President Bill Clinton, in the center without a hardhat, touring conditions at Ground Zero a few days after 9/11. In the background is the Verizon b...
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Clinton, Obey and Young at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Former President Bill Clinton, in the hard hat on the right, with Wisconsin Congressman David Obey (left) and Florida Congressman Bill Young, the Republica...
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David Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right, in the blue shirt) touring the 9/11 Ground Zero site with an unidentified FBI official, Joan Obey, and an unide...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (center) at the World Trade Center Ground Zero a few days after 9/11. Obey was there as the ranking Democrat on the Hou...
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Vesey Street at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: World Trade Center debris piles on Vesey Street, looking west. On the left are World Trade Center buildings 5 and 6 which were heavily damaged by the colla...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, wearing a blue shirt, is standing in the foreground. Behind him, also in a blue shirt, is Florida Congressman Bill You...
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Obey and Young, Overwhelmed

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo...

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