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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of damage from the 1911 flood of the Black River. An entire wall of a building is gone, and debris is along the river banks. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings, a railroad bridge, and in the foreground people standing on what may be a dam over the river. |
| Date: | 10 01 1964 |
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| Description: | The American Radio Relay League sponsors a communications and rescue drill based on a simulated flood near Verona. 30 workers and 35 mobile communications ... |
| Date: | 02 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Jerry Hjert, director and John Custer, technical director of the Madison Theater Guild, foreground, survey the ruins of the Madison Civic Opera's scenery a... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a hill of a lake or river surrounded by fields and hills. The water is either marshy, or has been flooded, as trees and plants are growi... |
| Date: | 04 29 1979 |
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| Description: | A man is walking through a flooded Dairy Queen parking lot in the downtown area, while cars are driving down the street. The sign in the window of the Dair... |
| Date: | 06 2008 |
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| Description: | View looking east of a 1000-year-old Indian intaglio effigy in the shape of a panther. The effigy, which is on the north bank of the Rock River, is filled ... |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across water towards trees in the distance. There are clumps of hay or plants in the water, perhaps a flooded field. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across field flooded with water towards trees in the distance. There are clumps of hay or plants in the water. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Clump of grain in a field, perhaps left by a flood. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across grain piled in a field, which appears to be flooded in the background. There is a building in the distance. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline looking through fences towards a man standing in knee-deep water holding a net and scooping water into a bucket. Patches of land and tr... |
| Date: | 04 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and another person are in a rowboat in the flooded waters under the entrance to the covered bridge in Stonefield Village, which is a Wisconsin Histor... |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 08 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Dane County nurses and secretaries mop the floor of their third-floor public Health Department offices in the City-County Building after a faulty automatic... |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 01 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Traffic on a street with cars raising spray from a puddle. |
| Date: | 03 26 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of a car coming down Main Street during the flood of March 1920. Caption reads: "Main St." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line. The caption on the negative envelope states: ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line as water rushes down a lane in the pasture in ... |
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