Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Formally a Universalist Church (under Rev. Augusta Chapin), then a Baptist church, later a club house and eventually a dance hall. Photograph taken after ... |
Date: | 10 10 1916 |
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Description: | Elevated view over rooftops from the south of a fire which destroyed the Bascom Hall rotunda. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Science Hall (1876-1884) after the fire and in the process of being demolished on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | View down Bascom Hill of Science Hall (1876-1884) in the process of being demolished. |
Date: | 06 19 1900 |
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Description: | People stand amidst the ruins of Middleton after a fire, which burned 19 buildings. Debris litters the ground and foundations of buildings are exposed. The... |
Date: | 04 23 1971 |
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Description: | Poster promoting the "Survival Revival Women's Conference." The poster features an American flag patterned castle in flames with a parade of women marching... |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | The still smoldering foundation of a burned brick building in the wake of a tornado that swept through the town. More debris can be seen in the background. |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | Still smoldering fires and wreckage amidst debris left in the wake of a tornado. |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
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Description: | A large lithograph of the most immediate of the tragic results of the civil war in Mobile, Alabama, which was the great explosion of May 25, 1865. Federal ... |
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Description: | An oil tank burns in an oil field, probably in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where the first oil well was constructed in 1859. In total, 35,000 barrels burned... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | An oil tank burns in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. The Texas Company was ... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | Overhead view of a crowd, consisting of men, women, and children standing among what appears to be charred ruins. Smoke is rising in the background. |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Madison Fire Insurance Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with five different typefaces, distinct fields, elaborate capital letters "F" and "... |
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Description: | Memohead of Keeler Lumber & Fuel Company of Beloit, Wisconsin, a dealer in lumber and coal, with a tree stump, a pile of smoldering coal, and wisps of smok... |
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Description: | Letterhead of Christian Schroeder & Sons, a real estate, loan, and insurance agent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of a residence, two m... |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Globe Automatic Sprinkler Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a globe within the "O" of the company name, a sprinkler releasing water o... |
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