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| 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: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | An ice truck is lying overturned on Highways 12-13 after encountering a patch of ice near Club Chanticleer west of Middleton. The truck and load of ice ove... |
| 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: | 08 14 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men standing by a guard rail along the side of a road to look at a snow-covered automobile resting on its side. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | An automobile driving down a driveway between two embankments, prohibiting a clear view of an intersecting road. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Men examine the wreckage of an automobile resting on the edge of a foundation near a collapsed bridge. A portion of a crane can be seen in the background a... |
| Date: | 05 28 1952 |
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| Description: | View of the Sauk-Middleton Road where an automobile accident occurred. Taken for Attorney Farrond Shuttleworth. |
| Date: | 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms stands next to a damaged 1946 Chevrolet which had been rented from Friede Rent-A-Car. Arms and Bert Rogers had been traveling to Milwaukee in th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn wagon carrying three enormous, full milk cans. The cans have spilled ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn water wagon. One passenger has flown through the air and pierced the ... |
| 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from road of a man standing near his overturned car smoking a cigarette. His coat is lying across the side of the car. In the background is a barbed w... |
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| Description: | An upside down Bancroft delivery truck. A man is standing just behind the front tires. On the right, a "Dane County Police Traffic" car can be seen behind ... |
| Date: | 06 07 1966 |
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| Description: | View from road of a truck pulled off to the side of the road. The back of the truck is collapsed, containing beehives spilling onto the ground. "E.R. Raley... |
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| Description: | View towards a man posing in the open door of an early Ford automobile, which has run off the road up onto a concrete barrier. The axle is broken and one t... |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Police shown busy at the site of one of many crashes during a heavy rain. The driver of this car was injured when a trucker misjudged the distance during t... |
| Date: | 11 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Frank S. Perry, 21, 1218 Rutledge Street, escaped uninjured when the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck he was driving with a trailer he was towing veered o... |
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