Date: | 1869 |
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Description: | Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | A ladder wagon of the Madison Fire Department races around corner of North Pinckney and East Main streets. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Group portrait of the Madison Fire Department, consisting of 17 individual oval portraits and the station on Webster Street. |
Date: | 02 05 1955 |
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Description: | Fireman Bill Carow, member of the 1956 United States Olympic Ice Speed Skating Team. |
Date: | 01 04 1955 |
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Description: | Fireman Bill Carow, member of the 1955 United States Olympic Ice Speed Skating Team, lacing his son's, Michael Carow, skates. |
Date: | 09 13 1944 |
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Description: | Portrait of Edward J. Page, selected as new chief of Fire Department by the Police and Fire Commission. He is a fourteen year veteran of the Fire Departmen... |
Date: | 09 30 1944 |
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Description: | Retiring Madison Fire Department Chief Richard Widmann with new Chief, Edward J. Page. Mrs. Richard Widmann (Leonore) looks on. |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Frederick Moessner wearing a fireman's hat for Madison Engine Co. No. 2. He was one of the original members of Madison Fire Co... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Madison original Fire Station No. 3 (1902-1954), 1217 Williamson St. The driver is Albert Fell. Standing are George Eichman, Ole Johnson, and Ed Heick. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Madison fire fighters with W.H. Rogers Company horse-drawn wagon in front of the old Central Fire Station, 10 South Webster Street. |
Date: | 07 29 1945 |
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Description: | Madison fire fighters load Red Cross boxes to send overseas. Each box contained 36 knit bags made and filled by volunteers, each bag contained a pencil, st... |
Date: | 04 30 1947 |
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Description: | Madison retired fire chief, Fred L. Peabody, on his 85th birthday. |
Date: | 05 11 1947 |
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Description: | Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background. |
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: | 05 13 1947 |
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Description: | 1922 Pumper Fire Truck at old Fire Station No. 2 (1921-1966), 301 N. Broom Street. Firemen (l to r) Harold Muenkel, Charles White, Alex Cohn, Lt. Wilber K... |
Date: | 09 20 1947 |
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Description: | First Assistant Fire Chief Patrick J. Brown with microphone, and Fireman Grant Prideau receiving radio instructions from Fire Chief Edward J. Page, demonst... |
Date: | 02 13 1948 |
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Description: | Town of Madison Volunteer Firemen Association holding their first meeting under its new constitution at the Hillcrest School, Mineral Point Road. Pictured ... |
Date: | 05 04 1948 |
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Description: | A house trailer, owned by Edward Kirby, exploded at the Taylor trailer camp, 1038 South Park Street. The explosion was caused by a bottle gas leak. Kirby a... |
Date: | 06 12 1948 |
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Description: | DeForest Fire Chief W.E. Dahl inspecting the engine of the 1932 fire truck, which malfunctioned two blocks from the fire at the lumber and appliance buildi... |
Date: | 06 11 1948 |
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Description: | Donald Hanson, who discovered the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company and turned in the alarm. The fire total... |
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