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| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) touring the World Trade Center Ground Zero site a few days after the 9/11 attack. Obey was there as the senior ... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the intersection of Vesey Street and the West Side Highway, ground zero fo... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two... |
| Date: | 10 1986 |
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| Description: | Theresa's Emergency Medical Technicians posing for Emergency Medical Service Week. |
| Date: | 05 11 1938 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of two men using dynamite to break rock. One man is prying at a crevasse with a pole. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the right. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with men working near a railway track with sand haulers. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the wreckage. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Construction debris litters the ground around the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison) as reconstruction of the capitol proceeds after the 190... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Men working on the reconstruction of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison) after the 1904 fire. |
| Date: | 04 23 1965 |
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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles' Command Post, located in the Capitol, was called into action after tornadoes struck southern Wisconsin. It serves as the disaster ... |
| Date: | 11 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer and Co.'s Madison-based truck drivers and mechanics were instructed in methods of extinguishing fires in tires, wooden crates, and automobiles ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a horse-drawn wagon loaded with lumber standing in front of the frame of building under construction facing Main Street. There is a worker... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Sid caught underneath a table during a bridal dinner. Sid is looking out from under a tablecloth draped over his neck after trays of dishes crashed to the ... |
| Date: | 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Wooden hoop silo — ten hoops made of elm. Each hoop is made of three pieces 5 x 5/8. Silo had 8 - 2x4 upright supports: matched flooring used in walls. Cap... |
| Date: | 06 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right.... |
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