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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | A lithographic portrait by Louis Kurz (1833-1921) of Madison Fire Engine Company #2 posed with a hand pumper and hose cart in front of the design of the ne... |
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| Description: | The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of fire fighters on the side of a building and standing on the ground lifting people out of a building. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Peter Selb, Ben Dietrich, J.A. Lockwood, Matt Dietrich, and John Downing pose around the hand engine of the volunteer fire department. All but Selb were ch... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four men dressed in fire fighting gear driving a fire truck on State Highway 47 near Appleton. The Wisconsin Highway Commission which published this photo... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Five fire fighters en route to a fire in an International CO-8190 fire truck. |
| Date: | 04 17 1964 |
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| Description: | A clerk checks real estate property information in a vast filing system housed in a vault. |
| Date: | 09 10 1987 |
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| Description: | A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day. |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 05 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor. |
| Date: | 12 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Eleven boys watching another practice a free throw for the Madison Department of Recreation boys basketball team. |
| Date: | 04 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp... |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Madison Fire Department's new gray $16,200 aerial fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street. Roy Hurling is drivin... |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Madison Fire Department's new gray $16,200 aerial fire truck is parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street. Roy Hurling is dri... |
| Date: | 11 20 1933 |
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| Description: | John Hines dismantling one of two out-of-date pumps at the Madison Water Works, 311 N. Hancock Street, a job he obtained through the CWA (Civil Works Admin... |
| Date: | 06 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Patrolman Peterson in uniform, sitting at a telephone table. |
| Date: | 08 26 1929 |
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| Description: | Laying gas mains on University Avenue to Shorewood. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Fire chief at work. He is also a student earning his way through the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
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