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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15...
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Boy with Rescuer

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Charles Hargrove, age 12, sitting at the bedside of Robert Byrnes, age 9, after Charles pulled Robert from Murphy Creek on Madison's south side. The boys h...
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Betsy Flood Victims

Date: 09 10 1965
Description: A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend ...
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Paint Blast at Pyramid Motors

Date: 09 29 1957
Description: Coroner Michael Malloy standing inside the blast-damaged Pyramid Motors garage at 434 West Gilman street and pointing at a paint can and hot plate that cau...

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