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| Description: | On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover. |
| Date: | 11 30 1934 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a group of people looking at the automobile driven by W.B. Peterson which climbed the concrete abutment guarding a safety island... |
| Date: | 08 03 1934 |
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| Description: | View down road towards a group of people looking at an overturned automobile belonging to Fred Swanson. Fred and Norma Swanson, Dorothy Thompson, Edward an... |
| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Flooded Park Street viaduct, with a railroad train on tracks above the viaduct. There is a car in the water under the viaduct, and a man is standing on the... |
| Date: | 01 06 1931 |
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| Description: | A man stands at a safety zone in the middle of West Mifflin Street between lanes of traffic at the corner of State Street and N. Carroll Street, waiting to... |
| Date: | 03 05 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found... |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men traveling in a horse-drawn wagon on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "Example of road building in Lamar County on the Vernon-Columbus ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken through the broken windshield of a Wisconsin State highway patrol car. The patrolmen are at the scene of an automobile accident somewhere ... |
| Date: | 10 13 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the... |
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| Description: | An automobile is attempting to cross a flooded street as onlookers are watching. |
| Date: | 02 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Flood at the University of Wisconsin-Madison East Hill Trailer Camp, located at 451 North Midvale Boulevard, south of University Avenue. Several men are sh... |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Spectators and fireman at the Fitzgibbons building fire downtown. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking Northwest. Workers are standing on the right next to the exposed drainage pipes in the damaged bridge. Sheets and quilts are covering the entranc... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three horse-drawn fire engines are in the street with steam rising from their tanks. Other fire vehicles are to the right. Many pedestrians are on the stre... |
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| Description: | A large cloud of smoke blankets the end of the road, and snow covers the ground. Pedestrians are the sidewalks. A woman is running across the street, and a... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across Park Street of Science Hall building after the fire of December 1, 1884, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The building's exterior... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) lifts dirt into a dump truck. Original caption reads: "An International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTor equipped w... |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men working on a McCormick-Deering 10-20 relief tractor. They are working in the street, and storefronts are behind them. |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Men driving thirteen McCormick-Deering relief tractors down a dirt road for delivery to the victims of the "tri-state tornado." There are people watching f... |
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