Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. A man is standing to the left of a large damaged metal section of the mill which is resti... |
Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble... |
Date: | 03 15 1866 |
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Description: | People gather the morning after a fire that destroyed Dixon's store as well as $100,000 worth of goods and eleven other places of business. The flames were... |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the town as it appeared following the fire of 1894. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Rebuilding of homes and barns after the fire in 1894. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the ruins after the fire of April 28, 1875. |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | After the fire of Oct. 22, 1865. The house takes up most of the image to the right, with burnt trees on the left, and a building in the background. The r... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Science Hall (1876-1884) after the fire and in the process of being demolished on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | View down Bascom Hill of Science Hall (1876-1884) in the process of being demolished. |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | The still smoldering foundation of a burned brick building in the wake of a tornado that swept through the town. More debris can be seen in the background. |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | Still smoldering fires and wreckage amidst debris left in the wake of a tornado. |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
Date: | 1814 |
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Description: | Etching depicting the burning of Washington, D.C. by the British during the War of 1812. In the foreground are a number of soldiers moving toward the Capit... |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Edgewood Villa, built in 1854, which was bought by Governor C.C. (Cadwallader) Washburn in 1873. Later, the grounds and building becam... |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Group of people standing near two buildings which burned in 1893. In the center background is Edgewood Villa, a home purchased by Governor C.C. (Cadwallade... |
Date: | 04 12 1899 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a fire at the Choate-Hollister Furniture Company. A crowd, mostly men, are gathered to watch the effort to extinguish the fire. On the left,... |
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