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| Date: | 12 29 1932 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Chandler B. and Frances Chapman home exterior, at 640 N. Carroll Street, from the northeast after the fire. Furniture is on ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map after a fire destroyed a large area of the town. In memory of the Great Conflagration on April 28th, 1875. Taken from the North-Side. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the ruins after the fire of April 28, 1875. |
| Date: | 11 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three fire trucks at a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 South Carroll Street. Other buildings on the street, looking ... |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated vie of the crowd gathering in Langdon Street to observe the fire at Ann Emery Hall, 263-71 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | The student uprising, in which 112 students were killed by the South Korean police in one day, led to the downfall of President Syngman Rhee. This event wa... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | View of the badly damaged house at left, and a pile of rubble at right where the home of William and Gladys McGrath once stood. Both McGraths were killed i... |
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| Description: | Rooms remembered for what they led to What they shut out and how they silent sang |
| Date: | 12 31 1990 |
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| Description: | Firefighters battle a fire that engulfed Kruk's Drug Store and Hansen's Department Store. The pharmacy was to change ownership the next day. |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | A view from Bedford Street of the smouldering ruins of the Hotel Washington. A pedestrian crosses the street in front of a parked firetruck. Water being us... |
| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| Description: | Smoke billowing from windows on the State Street (left) and Carroll Street (right) sides of the Wisconsin Building. Fire fighters on ladders are working fr... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two barefoot children who are near a charred wooden sidewalk, lower left, that marks the course of Nebraska (now West Montello) Street tow... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a horse-drawn wagon loaded with lumber standing in front of the frame of building under construction facing Main Street. There is a worker... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west over the open basements of commercial buildings which were destroyed by a recent fire. Main Street is in the foreground. Horse-d... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from across street towards fire engines parked in front of Haack's Bicycles at 1250 East Washington Avenue. Firefighters are on the roof. The... |
| Date: | 09 28 1908 |
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| Description: | The Congregational Church after it was destroyed by fire in 1908. Caption reads: "Cong. Church." |
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| Description: | Ortelsburg in East Prussia after the Russian occupation. |
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