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| Date: | 06 13 1918 |
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| Description: | "Here lies the remains of German in B.H.S." is written on the pavement next to a smoldering pile of German textbooks. A car is parked along the curb in the... |
| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| 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: | 08 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowds gathering to survey the smoke and ash left after a fire demolished buildings. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | The Bradley House after the fire of March 17. There is obvious fire damage to the roof. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a crowd, consisting of men, women, and children standing among what appears to be charred ruins. Smoke is rising in the background. |
| 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: | 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: | 07 30 2011 |
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| Description: | Firefighters respond to a fire at the Democratic Party Office at 118 Fifth Avenue. Viewed from Fourth Street intersection. |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, respectively chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Commi... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | World Trade Center debris piles on Vesey Street, looking west. On the left are World Trade Center buildings 5 and 6 which were heavily damaged by the colla... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Automobiles damaged during the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 06 10 1958 |
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| Description: | Police and spectators watch as firemen battle a blaze at Brandes Heating Co., 2046 Winnebago Street. |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| Description: | A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building... |
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