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| Date: | 01 12 1948 |
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| Description: | State Street fire at Smith's Flower Shop and Leah's Smart Shop, 121-123 State Street. Other businesses on the block include the Leath & Company Furniture ... |
| 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: | 10 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Remaining stone wall and chimney of First Lutheran Church in Stoughton, following a fire that destroyed the building. |
| Date: | 10 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Remaining basement wall of First Lutheran Church in Stoughton, following a fire that destroyed the building. |
| 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: | 11 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Fire truck at the corner of S. Carroll and W. Doty Streets putting out a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 S. Carroll Street. Other buil... |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Spectators and fireman at the Fitzgibbons building fire downtown. |
| 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: | 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: | 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 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: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Firemen are carrying a hose up an extension ladder during a fire at Ann Emery Hall, 263-71 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 02 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Smoldering ruins of the Virgil Normington home in the town of Madison, a half-mile south of the Badger School on E. Badger Road at Rimrock Road. |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Spectators watch as black smoke pours from the burning second floor of the Pyramid Motor Company at 434 West Gilman Street after a gas tank explosion that ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A Madison fire truck parks at the scene of a Greyhound bus fire at the corner of East Main Street and South Pinckney Street in front of the S.S. Kresge sto... |
| Date: | 11 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing on the roof of Quality Service Laundry at 1202 Regent Street as smoke is billowing out from below. |
| Date: | 12 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Onlookers are standing in the street as a fire burns at Quality Service Laundry, 1202 Regent Street, showing the corner of Regent and Charter Streets. |
| Date: | 01 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of buildings damaged by a gas explosion and fire in the 600 block of East Main Street, near the 200 block of North Blount Street. Pictured is... |
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