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| Description: | On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard... |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, in miner's hat, after West Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster. |
| Date: | 02 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Mechanic punching a ticket at a time clock for a service job at one of International Harvester's motor truck branch service stations. A poster warning of t... |
| Date: | 02 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Orpheum and Capitol theatre ushers listening to a talk about fire prevention as they are standing beneath a marquee that advertises the epic "Cimarron." |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Roy F. Bergengren's CUNA (Credit Union National Association) office after fire, 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) upstairs office, Raiffeisen House 142 E. Gilman Street, after fire. |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Roy F. Bergengren's CUNA (Credit Union National Association) office after fire, 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Roy F. Bergengren's CUNA (Credit Union National Association) office after fire, 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | CUNA (Credit Union National Association) office staff working in hallway after fire, Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) office staff working in hallway after fire, Raiffeisen House, 142 E. Gilman Street. |
| 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: | 11 09 1932 |
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| Description: | Barber, Roland Thistle at his bombed barbershop, 707 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 1904 |
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| Description: | The office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the East Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 27. |
| Date: | 02 1904 |
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| Description: | A close-up of the damage in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction caused by the Wisconsin State Capitol fire. Details of interest include ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
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