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| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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| Description: | View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water. |
| Date: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues. |
| Date: | 03 19 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, looking east, of the wreckage of the high trestle caused by flooding and ice. The concrete plant is visible on the far bank. |
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| Description: | A river has overflown its banks and is flooding a road on a bridge. Some men are on the bridge are using sticks to move ice floes. Crowds of people are wa... |
| Date: | 04 27 1950 |
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| Description: | View of damage to the breakwater behind the home of Dr. J.G. Frisch, 1653 Sherman Avenue, caused by high water and waves driven by strong winds. |
| Date: | 05 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Grove of trees in a flooded area from a late snow melt. |
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| Description: | A group of flood victims stand in the rain after (Hurricane) Betsy at Algers Naval Base, where conditions were inadequate for them. |
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| Description: | A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness, squared off and lonely, tingling at the sound of ice, the libertine who drowned. |
| Date: | 04 03 1965 |
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| Description: | From back of Pairing, "Flooded land partly covered by ice at Knapp's Creek (at junction with the Wisconsin River near Boscobel), Wis. View looking toward t... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a hill of a lake or river surrounded by fields and hills. The water is either marshy, or has been flooded, as trees and plants are growi... |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A GMC truck and an automobile are splashing through a large puddle in a small town. The town's water tower is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 03 1914 |
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| Description: | Standing water between buildings and the railroad yard. Handwriting on the back reads: "Flood at Seymoure [sic], June 3-1914." Two men are standing near th... |
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