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| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Shorewood Hills marshalls Lee Cripps and Frank Ashworth measuring skid marks at an accident scene. |
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| Description: | Crowd of men gathered around a car at the curb. The back of the car appears almost crushed while portions of the front remain relatively intact. People are... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two damaged cars are parked on the curb of a residential street. People can be seen behind the cars, a tow truck is parked on the opposite side of the stre... |
| Date: | 03 18 1924 |
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| Description: | "Clock at Goldman's Jewelry Store, corner of Wisconsin Avenue and E. Water Street, run down by a truck." A crowd gathers around the broken clock. |
| Date: | 08 08 1950 |
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| Description: | A crowd of onlookers surrounds a wrecked automobile. The accident occurred at Highway 30 and North Fair Oaks Avenue. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r... |
| Date: | 08 09 1953 |
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| 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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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Automobiles damaged during the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. |
| Date: | 11 03 1958 |
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| Description: | An automobile rests on the sidewalk after running into the Wolff, Kubly & Hersig hardware store window at 30 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 07 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lavern (Edith) Clark walking away from her car that was knocked out of control on Milwaukee Street by another car. It crashed through a fence and into... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of the front of two automobiles, one of them a Ford Model T (right), with crumpled fenders resting against each other near the curb. The car on the l... |
| Date: | 12 07 1962 |
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| Description: | The overturned car in front of Millins Supermarket on Monroe Street belonged to William Matthias. He hit a lamppost and flipped the car while trying to avo... |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 01 1961 |
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| Description: | A three-car accident occurs at the corner of 323 East Johnson Street and North Hancock Street. |
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