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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 08 27 1946 |
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| Description: | A City Car Company cab on its roof after a collision with a bus at the corner of Mills and Regent Streets. The car skidded 42 feet from the point of impac... |
| Date: | 10 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Scene on Highway 51 and County Trunk K near DeForest where Madalene Richgels, an employee of Oscar Mayer, was killed in a truck auto accident near Gest's G... |
| Date: | 10 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Wrecked car in front of Alma's Inn, 5068 Highway 12-13. Injured in the accident were five men en route to work at the Badger Ordnance Works at Baraboo. T... |
| Date: | 10 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Scene of traffic accident in front of Alma's Inn, 5068 Highway 12-13. Injured in the accident were five men en route to work at the Badger Ordnance Works a... |
| Date: | 10 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Scene of wrecked car and semi-trailer truck in front of Alma's Inn, 5068 Highway 12-13. Injured in the accident were five men en route to work at the Badge... |
| Date: | 10 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Automobile with damage to left front hood and fender at Gillespie-Blumer Motors Inc., 814 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 07 1945 |
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| Description: | State Highway 113 bridge over the Yahara River in Westport. The photograph is taken from the south end of the bridge showing the highway going straight ahe... |
| Date: | 08 07 1945 |
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| Description: | State Highway 113 bridge over the Yahara River in Westport. The photograph is taken from the north end of the bridge showing the "blind" curve on the immed... |
| Date: | 08 07 1945 |
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| Description: | State Highway 113 bridge over the Yahara River in Westport, with two automobiles and road signs that read: "County Highway M, Middleton 7 miles"; "State Hi... |
| Date: | 08 17 1946 |
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| Description: | Skid-path of the Greyhound bus that crashed on Highway 12 about 2 miles east of Madison. The bus left the highway, plunged 200 feet along a ditch, hit a d... |
| Date: | 08 17 1946 |
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| Description: | Several bystanders are observing the damage to a Greyhound bus turned over on its side as the result of an accident on Highway 12 about 2 miles east of Mad... |
| Date: | 08 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Overturned taxicab, after collision with a city bus at the corner of Regent and Mills Street, injuring four people. Also shows a crowd of people looking on... |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Northwestern passenger train and truck collision at Commercial Avenue crossing in which two people, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Thompson (Alice) were killed. T... |
| Date: | 05 24 1948 |
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| Description: | A police ambulance, speeding a 3-year old, David King, seriously injured accident victim to a hospital, crashed into a Padgham Painting Co. truck, driven b... |
| Date: | 05 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Injured police ambulance driver Paul Klinglehofer is assisted by Officer C.J. Sparks. Klinglehofer was taken to Madison General Hospital with bruises and s... |
| Date: | 05 24 1948 |
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| Description: | County traffic officers Ray Case (left) and Henry Gerry are placing Elmer C. Evans, with head and face lacerations, in an ambulance to take him to the Jack... |
| Date: | 07 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Crashed automobile on tow truck, with traffic officer, Russell Klitzman, and deputy sheriff, Eldon Johnson, viewing the car. |
| Date: | 08 18 1948 |
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| Description: | The delegation of state, county, city, university, and business officials is shown as the caravan is about to leave from the Dane County Courthouse, 207 We... |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Shorewood Hills marshalls Lee Cripps and Frank Ashworth measuring skid marks at an accident scene. |
| Date: | 11 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr.... |
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