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| Date: | 02 04 1951 |
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| Description: | Major Ira E. Nolte, Madison district commander of the Volunteers of America, inspects the wreckage left by a fire which destroyed two basement supply rooms... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | The still smoldering foundation of a burned brick building in the wake of a tornado that swept through the town. More debris can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Still smoldering fires and wreckage amidst debris left in the wake of a tornado. |
| 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: | Currier & Ives lithograph of the fall of Richmond, April 2, 1865. |
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| Description: | "The Evacuation of Richmond Virginia. By the Government of the Southern Confederacy on the Night of April 2nd 1865." Before evacuating, the Confederates se... |
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| Description: | A large lithograph of the most immediate of the tragic results of the civil war in Mobile, Alabama, which was the great explosion of May 25, 1865. Federal ... |
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| Description: | Etching of the "Attack upon Roanoke Island" by troops landing from naval vessels, after a painting by Chappel. |
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| Description: | "Battle of Mobile Bay." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co., Boston. |
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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: | 1862 |
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| Description: | A composite of three views showing the siege of New Ulm on August 19 during the Indian Massacre of 1862. The lower left view depicts wagons and horses on a... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Smoke rises from the remnants of a barn and silo ruined by fire. |
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