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| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Police officers Robert O'Neil (left) and Frank Eisele standing next to the charred crib from which infant Walter Alburn, Jr. was rescued by neighbors in th... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Police officers Frank Eisele and Robert O'Neil examining the explosion-wrecked stove and the kerosene can from which resident Walter Alburn poured kerosene... |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | The student uprising, in which 112 students were killed by the South Korean police in one day, led to the downfall of President Syngman Rhee. This event wa... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian National Liberation Front member showing other members a burning stick. He is wearing a cap and a shirt with the FLN insignia on it. He is poin... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack. There is a burned-out building in the background. A male resident is sitting on a downed fence ... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ryerson (left) and Melvin Dykman use shovels to build a brick stove during a Civil Defense emergency mass-feeding practice. Katheryn Henning stacks la... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Four Madison city park department employees would go into action in case of enemy attack or any major-sized natural catastrophe. Pictured are Charles Breit... |
| Date: | 11 11 1995 |
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| Description: | "Members of Legion Post 270 performed a flag-burning ceremony on Veteran's Day." |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the intersection of Vesey Street and the West Side Highway, ground zero fo... |
| Date: | 12 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Typed note on the back: SGP...UNIPIX North of Hue, South Vietnam: A Vietnamese woman carries her possessions as her home burns behind her. The South Vietn... |
| Date: | 01 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on the back of the print, "Buna, immediately after capture by Yanks and Aussies." Two men stand in the center amid the destruction of the jungl... |
| Date: | 11 1995 |
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| Description: | Gordon Allison, Gary Erdmann, and other members of American Legion Post 270 take part in a flag burning ceremony to commemorate Veteran's Day. |
| Date: | 02 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Explorer Scouts climbing aboard an Air Force truck for a weekend of emergency duty training near Devils Lake. The staged search for Truax Field air... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Helen Giessel, left, holds a large juice can as Avis McLean cuts it with a tin sheers to make a plate during part of an emergency mass feeding demonstratio... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Four people demonstrate how old oil drums cut in half can be used to wash dishes as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instructi... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Mildred Ryerson, left, and Melvin Dykman mixing mortar for brick stoves and ovens as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruct... |
| Date: | 11 11 1918 |
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| Description: | Crowd of men and young boys gathered around a smoldering pile of ash and scraps in the Galesville Town Square. The burned items were most likely German boo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w... |
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