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| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a fire fighting crew posing with buckets and shovels. They are battling the Big Falls Forest Fire. |
| Date: | 06 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Donald Hanson, who discovered the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company and turned in the alarm. The fire total... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a man standing in a field and holding a damper or rake with smoke billowing from the grass. |
| 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: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
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| Description: | Lee Dunbar holding a testing cup and thermometer to test maple syrup extracted from the vat on top of the wood-burning stove behind him. Smoke is billowing... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a man wearing a vest and tie stoking a furnace. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Joe Weyenberg and two other men work with molten metal at the Roloff Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 04 1934 |
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| Description: | Scorching hive bodies that were infected with American Foul Brood. |
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