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Fish Boil Fire

Date: 1967
Description: Outdoor view of two pots used for a fish boil. One pot is engulfed in flames and children are running from the area.
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Fueling Fish Boil Fire

Date: 1967
Description: A man fueling a fire for a fish boil, as people look on.
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15...
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Porch Railing Hazard

Date: 08 1927
Description: A woman wearing a house dress, stockings, and heeled shoes standing on the porch railing of a brick house to hang what appears to be clothesline from porch...
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Staircase Danger

Date: 07 1927
Description: A girl holding a long coat or blanket, a broom, and a dustpan while descending a flight of stairs at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Woman Washing Wooden Porch

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse.
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Farms Hazards: Children on Machinery

Date: 1926
Description: A child on a Farmall tractor. The original caption warns of the danger of children "fooling with levers on running machinery." This photo was taken for Int...

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