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| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Automobile Combination Chemical Engine and Hose Wagon. When the manufacturer, the Peter Pirsch Company of Kenosha, donated this image to the Historical So... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This open-cab, engine-forward pumper built by Peter Pirsch & Son of Kenosha for the City of Owatonna, probably dates from about 1955, the year in which the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Madison old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster St. Three men driving horse-drawn ladder trucks in front of Madison Fire Station, 10 S. Webs... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The Monticello Fire Company, with Christ M. Stauffer, the chief, standing at the center. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A view of two horse-drawn engines. The engine to the left has three horses attached, with three firemen sitting in the wagon. The water tank is on the left... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of two horse-drawn engines sitting in front of the fire station. The engine on the left holds the water tank and is pulled by two horses. Two men ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A view of the fire engine, with two firemen posing in the front seat, wearing their uniforms. The helmets have the number "2" printed on them. The fire s... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men pose with two fire engines parked outside the open doors of the fire station at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. The station sign re... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and boys posing on and around a fire wagon, with a large hose attached to the front. The back of the photograph identifies the man wi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of motorized fire trucks, horse-drawn fire trucks, automobiles and water wagons gathered on East Washington Avenue. All the vehicles are acco... |
| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| Description: | A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the New London Fire Department posing around their fire engine. They are wearing firefighting gear, coats, boots, helmets and tools in th... |
| Date: | 06 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Crowds standing in the street watching as a fire burns in the four story, brick Hotel Superior. People are being rescued with a ladder and others have esca... |
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