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| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Small child opening a desk drawer containing a shining revolver (hand gun). The scene was staged for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depar... |
| Date: | 07 17 1926 |
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| Description: | Staged scene of a woman sewing with a young child attempting to help. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | CUNA (Credit Union National Association) office staff working in hallway after fire, Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) office staff working in hallway after fire, Raiffeisen House, 142 E. Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Lois Bailey, who was thrown from the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, suffering injuries to her face and head. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon is under the heading: "Hitching the Tractor to the Implement". The cartoon depicts a... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Robert O'Neil looking at charred doll and little red boots found in the debris in the room in a tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Police officers Robert O'Neil (left) and Frank Eisele standing next to the charred crib from which infant Walter Alburn, Jr. was rescued by neighbors in th... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Police officers Frank Eisele and Robert O'Neil examining the explosion-wrecked stove and the kerosene can from which resident Walter Alburn poured kerosene... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Four Truax barracks apartment neighbors who rescued Walter Alburn and two of his children from the Alburn apartment after a kerosene explosion and resultin... |
| Date: | 03 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Walter E. Randall looking at fire damage to the bedroom of Dorothy Meager, 111 North Blair Street. |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Four residents in the lobby of Ann Emery Hall, 623-71 Langdon Street, waiting for permission to return to their rooms after a fire. From left are Marilynn ... |
| Date: | 05 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Charles Hargrove, age 12, sitting at the bedside of Robert Byrnes, age 9, after Charles pulled Robert from Murphy Creek on Madison's south side. The boys h... |
| Date: | 03 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Catherine Coffey at St. Mary's hospital, 720 South Brooks Street, where she lives and works as a dietary helper. The Dane County Red Cross was respons... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A woman and her young daughter stand in a yard examining a house in the aftermath of a tornado. The house has one entire side missing, a tree leans over on... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A child sitting on the floor of a farmhouse kitchen near a cloth-covered table. A lit oil lamp, pot, and utensils are sitting on the table, illustrating th... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman sitting at a kitchen table wearing a visor, leaning over a book while a lit oil lamp is nearby. Also on the table are a newspaper, additional books... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman moves a curtain out of the way of an electrical fan sitting on a desk. Near the fan are some books, a floral arrangement, and a notepad. Outdoors, ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Martha Verriden with her 14 month old son, Stevie. They lost their home and possessions in a fire at their trailer home at Oak Park Trailer Cou... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length cabinet card portrait of Captain N.A. Peterson, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who was master and part owner of the schooner “Selt”... |
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