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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
| 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: | Map of the district of the Peshtigo fire, approximately 1,280,000 acres, in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 05 04 1927 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Refectory building fire. Fire was June 1926. Now Carson Gulley Commons. |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol fire, showing a crowd watching near the South Wing. Some of the contents of the building are already in wagons ready to be hauled a... |
| 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: | 08 24 1888 |
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| Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the bleacher exploded as the nigh... |
| Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town as it appeared following the fire of 1894. |
| Date: | 04 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial photograph of two brush fires on the north side of Lake Mendota. Taken over the west side of Madison looking northwest across Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Spectators and fireman at the Fitzgibbons building fire downtown. |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered on the street as jets of water are being directed by fire fighters towards a fire in a church. |
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| Description: | A large building has partially collapsed from a fire. Fire fighters, some of them standing on the roof of a building next door, aim large streams of water ... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the street aiming fire hoses at a fire in a collapsing building. Smoke envelopes most of the fire and rubble. The wall of the building has... |
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