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| 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. |
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| Description: | Illustration of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon out of burning woodland. |
| Date: | 04 06 1899 |
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| Description: | Street view showing Alma Milling Co. building on fire. Photograph was taken from Gerhard Gesell's studio balcony. |
| Date: | 10 10 1916 |
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| Description: | View from distance of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) dome burning on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Smoke is billowing out from the building... |
| Date: | 10 10 1916 |
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| Description: | View from distance of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) dome burning on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Smoke is billowing out from the building... |
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| Description: | Etching of the "Attack upon Roanoke Island" by troops landing from naval vessels, after a painting by Chappel. |
| Date: | 1999 |
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| Description: | Map depicting the burned over area created by the fire on October 8, 1871. Map includes inset of Wisconsin and surrounding states with detail of area impac... |
| Date: | 07 22 1906 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk and street towards the Fountain City fire of July 22, 1906. Smoke is billowing from a downtown building. Several onlookers are watching ... |
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