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| Date: | 05 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered a safe distance from a burning oil tank. |
| Date: | 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered outside International Harvester's Deering Works at Fullerton and River, as a crew of firemen works to extinguish a fire i... |
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| Description: | Lee Dunbar holding a testing cup and thermometer to test maple syrup extracted from the vat on top of the wood-burning stove behind him. Smoke is billowing... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the 9/11 Ground Zero site viewing the damage to the World Trade Center. Behind Obey is the World Financial Center co... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, wearing a blue shirt, is standing in the foreground. Behind him, also in a blue shirt, is Florida Congressman Bill You... |
| Date: | 05 02 1910 |
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| Description: | The postcard shows billowing smoke from the Hurley, Wisconsin Windsor mine shaft. Two men who were in the mine at the time lost their lives. A group of boy... |
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| Description: | View across street towards Sid standing on the back of a fire engine with a cigar in his mouth. A police officer wearing a uniform and a badge is standing ... |
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| Description: | View across street towards Sid standing on the back of a fire engine with a cigar in his mouth. In the background are storefronts destroyed by fire and cov... |
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| Description: | View of Sid standing in the street with a cigar in his mouth looking at damaged storefronts covered with icicles. Snow and ice cover the sidewalk, and a fi... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the damage from the fire. Burned logs are in the foreground, and pieces of burned and broken machinery is among the broken foundation. Men... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing in front of a tent set up outdoors as temporary headquarters for Findorff after a fire. Caption reads: "After the destruction ... |
| Date: | 06 01 1909 |
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| Description: | Findorff staff carrying on the business in the tent after the fire. |
| Date: | 05 13 1909 |
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| Description: | View across field towards buildings smoking after the fire. Men are standing on and around stacks of lumber. Caption reads: "The Morning After the Fire." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Twelve photographs and one letterhead are mounted on a board with captions. The photographs cover the time before and after a fire in 1909 when the company... |
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