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| Description: | On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover. |
| Date: | 06 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A worker is sorting through the rubble from the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street. People in the ... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | A photograph of a painting depicting the bomb exploding at police as they approach the wagon to tell the crowd to disperse from Haymarket Square. Shrapnel ... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting a confrontation between police and protesters at the Haymarket in Chicago. Smoke from an explosion drifts in the backgro... |
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| Description: | Men filling in Main Street after the 1911 flood. Forms are probably for the basement of the Cozy Corner Tavern. |
| Date: | 09 05 1947 |
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| Description: | The train engineer's view (looking east) of the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at Regent Street, Breeze Terrace, and Little Street, taken one-hundred f... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking Northwest. Workers are standing on the right next to the exposed drainage pipes in the damaged bridge. Sheets and quilts are covering the entranc... |
| Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters work to put out a fire in a four-story building on a city block. In front of a fire hose spraying water, a photographer is kneeling in front ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View down Bascom Hill of Science Hall (1876-1884) in the process of being demolished. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A man holding a bundle of logs is opening the screen door on a farmhouse with a deteriorating front porch. |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Doris Ardelt, secretary of the Madison Civil defense office, hands out comic books to Mary Anthony, left, and Susan Peerenboom for distribution by the Girl... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) and Florida Congressman Young tour the destruction at the World Trade Center with an FBI guide a few days after... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Congressman Bill Young of Florida (left), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking committee De... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, respectively the Republican chair and the ranking Democrat of the House Appr... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (center) at the World Trade Center Ground Zero a few days after 9/11. Obey was there as the ranking Democrat on the Hou... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the 9/11 Ground Zero site viewing the damage to the World Trade Center. Behind Obey is the World Financial Center co... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | World Trade Center debris piles on Vesey Street, looking west. On the left are World Trade Center buildings 5 and 6 which were heavily damaged by the colla... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, wearing a blue shirt, is standing in the foreground. Behind him, also in a blue shirt, is Florida Congressman Bill You... |
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