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| Description: | A fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine is parked on the street. A group of people are looking up toward a building where a rope is coming down fr... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A small group of four fighters and one of their bosses are standing amid burned remnants from a fire. One man is holding a fire hose that is spraying water... |
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| Description: | A fire boat is next to a dock with burning objects. Fire fighters on the boat are using high-powered hoses to put out a fire. Smoke and steam fill the back... |
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| Description: | Fire Department chief, sitting at a desk in a profile view. |
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| Description: | Fire at the elevator of the Atlas Flour Mill. Two men are working a water hose tower in the center, and fire fighters are aiming jets of water at the buil... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from rooftop of smoke billowing out of the roof of a burning brick building. Fire fighters are climbing on ladders on the side of the buildin... |
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| Description: | A large Victorian-style house gutted by a fire. Ladders are leaning up on the sides, reaching up many different levels. Two people are on the roof spraying... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fireman Orrin Zebarth is shown at the foot of the narrow, steep front stairs which occupants were forced to use when flames cut off escape routes at the re... |
| Date: | 01 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Five fire fighters, Kendall Niebuhr, William J. Sullivan, John G. Randall, Chief Edward J. Page, and Gill S. Stone, pose with newly customized rescue truck... |
| Date: | 01 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Six "old hands" of Fire Station No. 4 at a banquet for their chief, Roy B. Herrling. From left are, Fred Rice, Phillip Behrend, Wilson Donkle, Captain Herr... |
| Date: | 01 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Guests at the head table at a banquet for Fire Captain Roy B. Herrling held at the No. 4 station. From left are, Chief Edward J. Page, Captain Herrling, As... |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters at Fire Station No. 4 working to convert the old hayloft at the station into a utility room. From left are fire fighters Fred Rice, Maurice N... |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Assistant Fire Chief Sebastian C.A. Ratcliffe shaking hands with three fire fighters with whom he has teamed to fight many fires in Madison. The photograph... |
| Date: | 10 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee County Stadium on the day of the first game of the 1958 World Series, between the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees. A man is being lower... |
| Date: | 10 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee County Stadium on the day of the first game of the 1958 World Series, between the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees. Fire fighters and po... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Members of Shorewood Fire Fighters standing in front of fire engine posing outdoors near a lake. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon in front of several brick buildings, including the Capitol Publishing building, near the water tower. The man driving the wagon may... |
| 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: | 06 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Retirement party for Stanley Oldham at the No. 7 fire station, 2410 Monroe Street. Standing, left to right, are: firemen William Ferger, Thomas Barry, Marv... |
| Date: | 09 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Maple Bluff fire chief Lawrence Nielsen places the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service. |
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