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Cab after Traffic Accident

Date: 08 27 1946
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...
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Wrecked Car near Alma's Inn

Date: 10 11 1944
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...
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Scene of Traffic Accident near Alma's Inn

Date: 10 11 1944
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...
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Scene of Car and Truck Accident near Alma's Inn

Date: 10 11 1944
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...
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Damaged Car at Gillespie-Blumer Motors

Date: 10 14 1944
Description: Automobile with damage to left front hood and fender at Gillespie-Blumer Motors Inc., 814 East Washington Avenue.
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Westport Bridge

Date: 08 07 1945
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...
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Westport Bridge

Date: 08 07 1945
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...
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Westport Bridge with Road Signs

Date: 08 07 1945
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...
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Crashed Automobile

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Crashed automobile on tow truck, with traffic officer, Russell Klitzman, and deputy sheriff, Eldon Johnson, viewing the car.
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Suburban Police Officers

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Shorewood Hills marshalls Lee Cripps and Frank Ashworth measuring skid marks at an accident scene.
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Car Wreck and Train

Date: 11 27 1949
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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Auto Accident

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: A crowd of onlookers surrounds a wrecked automobile. The accident occurred at Highway 30 and North Fair Oaks Avenue.
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Wrecked Car in Garage

Date: 12 21 1950
Description: A damaged car parked in a repair shop as a result of an auto accident at West Main and South Bassett Streets during a snow storm on December 7th. The car w...
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Automobile Accident

Date: 08 14 1951
Description: Police investigator Boyd Hustad examines the car which a Chicago couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lee, and two children were riding in when it struck the Runion c...
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Automobile Accident

Date: 05 28 1952
Description: Damaged automobile sitting on the lot at Hult's Capital Garage, 608 E. Washington Ave. with Thomas Olson Auto Accessories, 609 E. Washington Ave. and Mautz...
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Automobile Accident

Date: 05 28 1952
Description: View of the Sauk-Middleton Road where an automobile accident occurred. Taken for Attorney Farrond Shuttleworth.
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Auto Accident — Airman Killed

Date: 08 09 1953
Description: A group of Madison residents view the twisted hulk of a car in which David Huse, an airman at Truax Field, was killed. The accident occurred 4 miles south ...
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Automobile Accident

Date: 11 03 1958
Description: An automobile rests on the sidewalk after running into the Wolff, Kubly & Hersig hardware store window at 30 North Carroll Street.
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Car Falls in Midvale Drainage Ditch

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: Winter scene with garagemen retrieving another car from the open drainage ditch on Midvale Boulevard. The 1959 Dodge skidded into a snowbank and catapulted...

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