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| Date: | 08 26 1960 |
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| Description: | Miniature model of the Wisconsin Dells. Goggled diver, Ollie Reese, swimming with Dells recreation boat. This completely landscaped exhibit was built to sc... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters use an International fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a training exercise. ... |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a fire crew battling small house fire during a training exercise. The men are using an International Scout fire truck. |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
| Date: | 07 27 1941 |
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| Description: | An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames. |
| Date: | 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Silhouette of a guard patrolling while wearing a helmet and carrying a bayonet. |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i... |
| Date: | 04 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Don Woody, catcher, and Dave Baskerville, batter, members of the West High School baseball team. There is a lake in the background. |
| Date: | 11 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Madison Diving Club members Harold Stitgen, president, Reverend Herbert Schaak, treasurer, and James Filer dressed for scuba diving in Lake Mendota off Con... |
| Date: | 11 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Madison Diving Club members Harold Stitgen, president, Reverend Herbert Schaak, treasurer, and James Filer wearing diving suits and scuba gear, ready for a... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Improved road paving equipment shown in an unidentified photograph. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging. |
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