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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: | 1910 |
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Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
Date: | 11 1883 |
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Description: | The ruins of the unfinished South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after its collapse while still under construction. |
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Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
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Description: | Men with shovels during the flood at Villa Louis. |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Fire fighters use an International Model VCO-202 fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a train... |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of a posed group of orphan children of miners from mine disaster, Nov. 13, 1909. Caption reads: "#31 Group made orphans by Cherry Min... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of people gathering around an air shaft of a mine in after a mining disaster. Caption reads: "(?) at Mine Disaster showing wrecked ai... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a family. Caption reads: "W.H. Clelland and Family. One of the Cherry Mine survivers [sic]. It is this man who was said to have le... |
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: | 07 1927 |
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Description: | Three boys purchase fireworks from the proprietor of a National Fireworks tent near Ogden Avenue. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Ag... |
Date: | 08 1927 |
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Description: | Men filling the gas tank of an automobile at an "Indian Gas" roadside service station. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural ... |
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Description: | International Scouts and a helicopter used by the Atlanta police emergency rescue unit. |
Date: | 1927 |
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Description: | Staged scene of young boy about to light large firecracker. He is sitting on steps, and a push scooter is lying on its side on the sidewalk. This photograp... |
Date: | 07 1927 |
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Description: | Young farm boy holding a paint bucket and paper bag and has a pencil in his mouth. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Ext... |
Date: | 06 1927 |
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Description: | Staged scene of a man looking into an automobile radiator with a match in hand. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extens... |
Date: | 12 1926 |
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Description: | Staged scene of two hunters in the woods with guns. One man is walking under a branch with his rifle pointed behind him. This photograph was taken for Int... |
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