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John Speranza with Wife and Two Children

Date: 10 31 1948
Description: John Speranza stands at the ruins of his store, dairy bar and home on Highways 12 & 18 south of Madison (2606 West Broadway). With him is his wife, Bertha ...
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Speranza's Neighbors Dig Basement for New Shop

Date: 11 06 1948
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...
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Truax Barracks Fire

Date: 12 06 1948
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...
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Ann Emery Hall Fire

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: Four residents in the lobby of Ann Emery Hall, 623-71 Langdon Street, waiting for permission to return to their rooms after a fire. From left are Marilynn ...
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Maple Bluff Fire

Date: 04 26 1958
Description: Group portrait of five youth who sounded a fire alarm when a fire broke out at the Graham Johnson residence at 22 Burrows Street in Maple Bluff. Left to ri...

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