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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| 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: | Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children. |
| Date: | 10 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Side view of tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, showing the lone window of the tiny sleeping room (far... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Charred remains of the open stairway, which was the closest means of escape for the families who lived upstairs at the rear of the building at 15 South Bed... |
| 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: | Week-old oil heater which exploded and caused the fire in the tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, which is located at the rear of the city gara... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire-charred apartment of Annie Simmons and her four children, at the rear of the tiny bedroom in which Florence Dinger and her three children died. |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Robert O'Neil looking at charred doll and little red boots found in the debris in the room in a tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dane County Traffic Officer Robert Waldron who was injured in fighting the fire at the tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street, where Flor... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E... |
| 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: | Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15... |
| 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: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Truax barracks building where a kerosene explosion and fire fatally burned Mrs. Walter (Dorothy) Alburn, and seriously burned her husband and two of their ... |
| 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: | 01 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Ralph E. Mattison and his five-year-old daughter, Donna, examine the burned wall of their living room at 709 Orton Court. |
| 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: | 09 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Three women, employees of Oscar Mayer Company, present gifts to co-worker Irene Loveland who lost her home and personal possessions in a fire. Left to righ... |
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