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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon coming down a cobblestone street in Milwaukee. The fact that automobiles are also in the photograph suggests that the transition to ... |
| 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: | 05 19 1887 |
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| Description: | Firefighters stand with steam fire engine in front of fire station at National Soldiers Home. |
| Date: | 06 13 1925 |
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| Description: | International fire truck, owned by the city of Lindsborg, parked on a street in front of a brick building. |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of emergency ambulance personnel and fire fighters posing with an International ambulance and a fire truck in front of a fire station. The h... |
| Date: | 03 20 1935 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Madison Steam Laundry, at 433 State Street, the scene of a fire. In front of the building is a fire truck with extension lad... |
| 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: | 02 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Group of Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary women on a fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 S. Webster Street. On the far left i... |
| Date: | 12 27 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street towards an advertisement for the movie "Third Alarm" on the side of a fire wagon with two fire fighters being pulled by horses in front ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Station #2 of the Madison Fire Department at 125 State Street. Several men in uniform pose in front of the building with a horse-drawn wagon. A sign on the... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The first ladder wagon of Capitol Hook and Ladder Company #1 posed at the corner of Pinckney and Main streets to show off the length of the wagon and the 4... |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a brochure advertising International fire trucks, ambulances, and emergency rescue vehicles. Features a photograph of fire fighters washing ... |
| 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: | 05 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Firemen James Fraser and Philip Statz (left to right in the driver's seat) are demonstrating how the old wooden spoke-wheeled 1915 foam fire truck chugged ... |
| Date: | 11 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three fire trucks at a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 South Carroll Street. Other buildings on the street, looking ... |
| Date: | 11 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Fire truck at the corner of S. Carroll and W. Doty Streets putting out a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 S. Carroll Street. Other buil... |
| Date: | 07 1886 |
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| Description: | Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed... |
| Date: | 07 09 1926 |
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| Description: | An International Model S truck used as a fire truck and attached to a trailer holding a long, folded ladder sits parked outside Engine House No. 2. The sig... |
| Date: | 08 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking south on South Webster Street with the soon to be "retired" pumper fire truck and six fire fighters, parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 1... |
| Date: | 09 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire Chief Edward J. Page (right) and Lieut. Albert Rogg standing next to one of three new Madison fire truck at the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webs... |
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