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Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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... |
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Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
Date: | 08 11 1934 |
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Description: | Doyon Lumber Co., following a warehouse fire, located at 638 West Mifflin Street. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Elevated view of men and ships near the McCormick Works and the Chicago River during the Chicago Fire of 1871. The original caption reads: "Reproduction o... |
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: | 05 11 1947 |
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Description: | Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background. |
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... |
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Description: | Exterior view of a burned-out stone building with a missing roof next to a pond. |
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. |
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Description: | A crowd is gathered a safe distance from a burning oil tank. |
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Description: | An oil tank burns in an oil field, probably in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where the first oil well was constructed in 1859. In total, 35,000 barrels burned... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | An oil tank burns in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. The Texas Company was ... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
Date: | 06 1934 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered outside International Harvester's Deering Works at Fullerton and River, as a crew of firemen works to extinguish a fire i... |
Date: | 06 12 1908 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of a night view over water of the veneering mill at Antigo burning. Flames and smoke are streaming from the roof and windows of the b... |
Date: | 04 30 1997 |
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Description: | "At the fire on the opposite page [Page 26], this 3/4 full, 500 gallon propane tank exploded and was propelled 1/2 mile to this location on the Jim & Donna... |
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