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| 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: | 05 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A Madison fire truck parks at the scene of a Greyhound bus fire at the corner of East Main Street and South Pinckney Street in front of the S.S. Kresge sto... |
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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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a crowd, consisting of men, women, and children standing among what appears to be charred ruins. Smoke is rising in the background. |
| Date: | 07 12 1917 |
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| Description: | Crowd at a train station in Vyatka, Russia. Smoke in the background is coming from a burning railway ice-house. |
| Date: | 03 16 1915 |
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| Description: | Smoke surrounds several stumps in a field as they are burned to make way for a farm field. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Smoke rises from the remnants of a barn and silo ruined by fire. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Fire on second floor of turret tower in a brick building at the corner of State and Johnson Streets. |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | The Hotel Washington being destroyed by a fire on Feb. 18, 1996. |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | The student uprising, in which 112 students were killed by the South Korean police in one day, led to the downfall of President Syngman Rhee. This event wa... |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | International KBR-10 truck belonging to St. Louis Fire Department at the scene of a fire. Original caption reads: 'KBR-10 149" wheelbase, double reduction ... |
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| Description: | Men and fire fighters are gathered around burning building attempting to extinguish flames with an International fire truck. The truck is labeled "Engine N... |
| 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... |
| 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: | 02 1904 |
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| Description: | A crowd watches as a stream of water is trained on the south wing of the burning third Wisconsin State Capitol. The Centennial Fountain, with a winter cove... |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | A view of the smoldering third Wisconsin State Capitol. The roof of the west wing has collapsed; debris litters the steps. |
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