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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Peter Selb, Ben Dietrich, J.A. Lockwood, Matt Dietrich, and John Downing pose around the hand engine of the volunteer fire department. All but Selb were ch... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters are posing on and around a fire engine in front of the fire station. |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of emergency ambulance personnel and fire fighters posing with an International Model S-26 1926 ambulance on the left, and on the right a fi... |
| Date: | 10 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Three children and a fireman sitting on a fire truck. |
| Date: | 02 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Group of Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary women on a fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 S. Webster Street. On the far left i... |
| Date: | 12 27 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street towards an advertisement for the movie "Third Alarm" on the side of a fire wagon with two fire fighters being pulled by horses in front ... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The first ladder wagon of Capitol Hook and Ladder Company #1 posed at the corner of Pinckney and Main streets to show off the length of the wagon and the 4... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A ladder wagon of the Madison Fire Department races around corner of North Pinckney and East Main streets. |
| Date: | 10 08 1923 |
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| Description: | Two fire fighters are sitting in an International Model S 1924 fire truck on a street. Another man is standing on the back of the truck. On the side of the... |
| Date: | 06 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Several members of Local 311, Madison Firemen's union, are posed around Dick Lerwick, whom the union is sponsoring in the 1948 Soap Box Derby. Kneeling Ed... |
| Date: | 08 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fireman John Hoffman at the wheel of a 1929 pumper truck which is going to be "retired". |
| Date: | 08 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking south on South Webster Street with the soon to be "retired" pumper fire truck and six fire fighters, parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 1... |
| Date: | 09 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire Chief Edward J. Page (right) and Lieut. Albert Rogg standing next to one of three new Madison fire truck at the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webs... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three horse-drawn fire engines are in the street with steam rising from their tanks. Other fire vehicles are to the right. Many pedestrians are on the stre... |
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| Description: | A large cloud of smoke blankets the end of the road, and snow covers the ground. Pedestrians are the sidewalks. A woman is running across the street, and a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A small group of fire fighters fight an unseen fire with three fire hoses. Smoke obscures the fire, and on the right, a fire engine has smoke billowing fro... |
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| Description: | A group of fire fighters standing in the street while two men are being raised on a moving ladder, which is attached to the back of a truck. Two other ladd... |
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| Description: | A fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine is parked on the street. A group of people are looking up toward a building where a rope is coming down fr... |
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| Description: | A fire boat is next to a dock with burning objects. Fire fighters on the boat are using high-powered hoses to put out a fire. Smoke and steam fill the back... |
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