Date: | 06 22 1944 |
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Description: | Ray B. Drives Lumberyard, 3420 Gregory Street, burned with only the west end standing after a $10,000 fire swept the structure. The fire cause was unknown ... |
Date: | 03 14 1945 |
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Description: | In the recently completed paint department of Royal Body Co., 9-13 N. Brooks Street, a worker is preparing a sedan, the body and fenders of which are going... |
Date: | 02 14 1947 |
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Description: | The aftermath of a blazing fire involving five railroad cars of building materials at the F.L. Chase Lumber Company's main building in DeForest. |
Date: | 02 14 1947 |
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Description: | The main building at the F.L. Chase Lumber Company in DeForest destroyed by a blazing fire. |
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 15 1948 |
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Description: | Public officials inspecting the damage and debris from a fatal fire in the Dane County Jail. The fire was started by two inmates, one of whom died in the e... |
Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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Description: | Floyd Parker, a federal prisoner, and one of two inmates of the Dane County Jail who started the cell block fire, was rescued by sheriff's officials and ci... |
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... |
Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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Description: | Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown. |
Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
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: | 11 28 1948 |
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Description: | Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ... |
Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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Description: | Bertha Atkinson, Baron Brothers Department Store buyer, fits a bootie on Norma Widener, 11-months old, being held by her mother Valera Widener. In the fore... |
Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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Description: | Police officers Robert O'Neil (left) and Frank Eisele standing next to the charred crib from which infant Walter Alburn, Jr. was rescued by neighbors in th... |
Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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Description: | Police officers Frank Eisele and Robert O'Neil examining the explosion-wrecked stove and the kerosene can from which resident Walter Alburn poured kerosene... |
Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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Description: | Four Truax barracks apartment neighbors who rescued Walter Alburn and two of his children from the Alburn apartment after a kerosene explosion and resultin... |
Date: | 03 13 1949 |
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Description: | Police Officer Walter E. Randall looking at fire damage to the bedroom of Dorothy Meager, 111 North Blair Street. |
Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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Description: | Madison fireman Arnold Moen lying on the ground near two other firemen. He was overcome by smoke at the Ann Emery Hall fire at 263-71 Langdon Street. |
Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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Description: | Portrait of Calvin Beverly, age 40, of 807 Mound Street. Beverly was one of seven employees of the Pyramid Motor Company, located at 434 West Gilman Street... |
Date: | 11 19 1950 |
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Description: | Fire damage in the basement of the Capital City Bank building, 111 King Street. A man wearing boots surveys the rubble. |
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