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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. |
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| Description: | On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover. |
| Date: | 10 04 1963 |
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| Description: | A man surveys the damage to his car, and the aged tree that toppled onto it. |
| Date: | 11 28 1932 |
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| Description: | Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a... |
| Date: | 02 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered around the shore of Monona Bay where Joel Hansen drowned, and his half brother Tommy Blankenheim was rescued. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man jaywalking across a street in front of a moving automobile. The road is lined with houses and commercial buildings, and additional automobiles are pa... |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A man holding a bundle of logs is opening the screen door on a farmhouse with a deteriorating front porch. |
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| Description: | As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes no modern culture could survive without a touch of France |
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| Description: | View looking uphill towards a wrecked automobile resting in a ditch off the road. Probably due to an accident. People are standing near the top of the hill... |
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| Description: | View across what may be a metal roof towards a crowd of men looking at a collapsed structure of steel girders. The men are dressed in winter coats and hats... |
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| Description: | View across railroads tracks towards men walking around and examining a large industrial structure that has collapsed over a coal pile. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men wearing winter coats and hats. They are standing on a metal roof, examining a large collapsed industrial structure which is behind th... |
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| Description: | Men and women walking around piles of coal while examining a collapsed structure in a coal yard. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the wreckage. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after th... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “... |
| Date: | 08 22 1910 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people is posing near a haystack surrounded by debris. Caption reads: "Wreck at Mrs. Biederwolf, Fredonia, Wis." |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) waiting for rescue workers to free her right leg caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Her father Michael B. Palmer, at ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 07 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Susan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Summers, standing indoors next to the window that was smashed by an old willow tree that split and crashed into ... |
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