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: | 1871 |
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Description: | Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire. |
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. |
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: | 1875 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye map after a fire destroyed a large area of the town. In memory of the Great Conflagration on April 28th, 1875. Taken from the North-Side. |
Date: | 1869 |
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Description: | Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,... |
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: | 1877 |
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Description: | Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. The school burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Lodi School was a three-story brick Romanesque building with a small cupola, built in 1868. It burned on March 28, 1878. It was rebuilt by December 1878, b... |
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: | 1895 |
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Description: | Rebuilding of homes and barns after the fire in 1894. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of the ruins after the fire of April 28, 1875. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Science Hall (1876-1884) after the fire and in the process of being demolished on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | View across Park Street of Science Hall building after the fire of December 1, 1884, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The building's exterior... |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | View from Bascom Hill towards the west facade of the original Science Hall building (1876-1884) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after the fir... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | View down Bascom Hill of Science Hall (1876-1884) in the process of being demolished. |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | View of the ruins from a fire in the 3rd Ward. Stone rubble covers the ground and parts of two stone-frame structures are still standing. |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | View of the ruins from a fire in the 3rd Ward. A section of a tall building, perhaps a wall, still stands. In the foreground on the right is a cart near a ... |
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