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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel... |
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| Description: | Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire. |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the third Wisconsin State Capitol ablaze. |
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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol fire of February 26-27, 1904 from East Main Street at about 4:00 a.m. The East and West wings were destroyed, as was mu... |
| Date: | 11 1883 |
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| Description: | The ruins of the unfinished South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after its collapse while still under construction. |
| Date: | 11 1883 |
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| Description: | View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol showing the ruins of the South Wing addition after it collapsed during construction. |
| Date: | 05 21 1933 |
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| Description: | Two men examine a break in the dike and the wash out damage at Forest Hill Cemetery, Section 22. The house in the background is located at 454 Virginia Ter... |
| Date: | 05 21 1933 |
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| Description: | View of Forest Hill Cemetery behind 440 Virginia Terrace, showing damage to dike. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Side view of the sidewheel packet, Quincy, sinking in 1906. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Lat... |
| Date: | 10 04 1963 |
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| Description: | A man surveys the damage to his car, and the aged tree that toppled onto it. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Three boys purchase fireworks from the proprietor of a National Fireworks tent near Ogden Avenue. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Ag... |
| Date: | 04 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin River in flood, looking downstream. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol after the unfinished South Wing collapsed on November 8, 1883. Defective workmanship and shoddy construction materials ca... |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | The east wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol is surrounded by onlookers during the disastrous fire that caused severe damage. The conflagration began... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Man tending to a campfire while a woman is preparing a meal on a picnic table by a tent. A car is parked next to the campsite and a dog is sniffing at a te... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
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