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Quality Service Laundry Fire

Date: 12 07 1953
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.
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Bank Burning Money, Tezpur, Assam

Date: 1962
Description: Bank burning money in Tezpur, Assam during the Sino-Indian Border Conflict. The large pile of paper is steadily burning and a group of men are watching fro...
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Smoking Rubble, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Smoking rubble in the village of Vin Quoi, Vietnam. Destruction caused by Viet Cong.
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Damaged Building, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Building damaged by Viet Cong in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam. The pink building seems to have lost its roof and there is debris strewn about the yard. There are men...
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Wrecked Building, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Entrance to a wrecked building destroyed by the Viet Cong in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam. The building is filled with brick debris and has a sign that reads, "Quàn ...
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Soldiers and Residents, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack. There is a burned-out building in the background. A male resident is sitting on a downed fence ...
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Battle-Littered Alley

Date: 06 1962
Description: Alley in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, after a Viet Cong attack. Empty wooden ammunition boxes are strewn about in front of the charred entryway to a small brick bui...
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Entrance to Burned Out Building, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Entrance to a Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, building burned out in a Viet Cong attack. Debris can be seen cluttering the floor in the darkened interior. A tree branc...
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Jay Street Firefighting Efforts

Date: 07 30 2011
Description: Firefighters respond to a fire at the Democratic Party Office at 118 Fifth Avenue. Viewed from Fourth Street intersection.
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Fire at Das Pioneer Bier Haus

Date: 11 1991
Description: "With windchill factors below zero, firemen battled this fire at Das Pioneer Bier haus, operated by Mike Polster. Former proprietors were John Miller, Henr...
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Obey and Young at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) and Florida Congressman Young tour the destruction at the World Trade Center with an FBI guide a few days after...
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David Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Congressman Bill Young of Florida (left), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking committee De...
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Clinton at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Former President Bill Clinton, in the center without a hardhat, touring conditions at Ground Zero a few days after 9/11. In the background is the Verizon b...
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Clinton, Obey and Young at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Former President Bill Clinton, in the hard hat on the right, with Wisconsin Congressman David Obey (left) and Florida Congressman Bill Young, the Republica...
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David Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right, in the blue shirt) touring the 9/11 Ground Zero site with an unidentified FBI official, Joan Obey, and an unide...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, respectively the Republican chair and the ranking Democrat of the House Appr...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (center) at the World Trade Center Ground Zero a few days after 9/11. Obey was there as the ranking Democrat on the Hou...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the 9/11 Ground Zero site viewing the damage to the World Trade Center. Behind Obey is the World Financial Center co...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) talking with New York City firemen who were involved in the rescue and recovery effort after the attack on the ...
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Vesey Street at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
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...

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