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Obey and Young, Overwhelmed

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) touring the World Trade Center Ground Zero site a few days after the 9/11 attack. Obey was there as the senior ...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the intersection of Vesey Street and the West Side Highway, ground zero fo...
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Forest Fire

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Description: View across a field towards thick smoke billowing from a forest fire. People are in an open field in the distance. A road with trucks parked along it runs ...
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Maple Bluff Fire

Date: 04 26 1958
Description: Two firemen hold a ladder while going up a ladder to fight a fire that destroyed the interior of the Graham Johnson residence at 22 Burrows Road in Maple B...
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Freedom House Ruins

Date: 1965
Description: A man and a woman stand near a fireplace and other rubble of a burned Freedom House used by civil rights workers. The house was "burned down in the middle ...
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Freedom House Ruins

Date: 1965
Description: A man and a woman stand near a fireplace and other rubble of a burned Freedom House used by civil rights workers. The house was "burned down in the middle ...
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Fire Damage at Robert Hall Store

Date: 01 17 1959
Description: Burned hangers and shredded clothing hang on four clothing display racks inside the remains of the Robert Hall store after a fire. Three fire fighters are ...
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Buna Immediately After Capture

Date: 01 02 1943
Description: Handwritten on the back of the print, "Buna, immediately after capture by Yanks and Aussies." Two men stand in the center amid the destruction of the jungl...
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Russian Firemen Extinguishing Flames

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers look on as a group of Russian firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire in a building possibly used by the Allied forces in Arch...
Postcard

High School Fire

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Description: Photographic postcard view of firemen fighting a high school fire. A small crowd of people are watching from the street.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 633-639

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Description: Rooms remembered for what they led to
What they shut out and how they silent sang
Photograph

Man Burning Beehives

Date: 04 1934
Description: Scorching hive bodies that were infected with American Foul Brood.
Photograph

Barn Fire

Date: 08 1987
Description: The Behm familiy suffers a barn fire.
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Firefighter at Das Pioneer Bier House

Date: 11 1991
Description: Fire at Das Pioneer Bier House in Theresa. Firefighter holding hose.
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Fire at Das Pioneer Bier House

Date: 1991
Description: Two firefighters on ladder using hose to fight fire at Das Pioneer Bier House in Theresa.
Photograph

Flag Burning Ceremony

Date: 11 1995
Description: Gordon Allison, Gary Erdmann, and other members of American Legion Post 270 take part in a flag burning ceremony to commemorate Veteran's Day.
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Old Nora General Store Destroyed by Fire

Date: 03 21 1960
Description: Firemen douse smoldering ruins of the Old Nora General Store on Highway 12-18 at BN and Nora Road in the Town of Cottage Grove.
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Bonfire

Date: 1918
Description: Men in hats are gathered around a nighttime bonfire, which was probably part of an anti-German demonstration.
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Water Avenue Fire

Date: 12 31 1990
Description: Firefighters battle a fire that engulfed Kruk's Drug Store and Hansen's Department Store. The pharmacy was to change ownership the next day.

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