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| Description: | Well jetting equipment with three hose lines extinguishing forest fires. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A poster or signboard titled: "The Right Spirit" depicting five examples of International Harvester employees engaging in recreational and voluntary activi... |
| Date: | 08 19 1922 |
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| Description: | A man performs a ladder-climbing stunt in front of onlookers as part of the West Pullman and Milwaukee Works Fire Department Exhibition at West Pullman Par... |
| Date: | 09 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Fireman Chris Andersen is operating the radio at Central Fire Headquarters, 18 South Webster Street, dispatching fire trucks from his office. |
| Date: | 06 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Several members of Local 311, Madison Firemen's union, are posed around Dick Lerwick, whom the union is sponsoring in the 1948 Soap Box Derby. Kneeling Ed... |
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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 ... |
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| Description: | Fire Department chief, sitting at a desk in a profile view. |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters at Fire Station No. 4 working to convert the old hayloft at the station into a utility room. From left are fire fighters Fred Rice, Maurice N... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Madison old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster St. Three men driving horse-drawn ladder trucks in front of Madison Fire Station, 10 S. Webs... |
| Date: | 09 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Maple Bluff fire chief Lawrence Nielsen places the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service. |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | State Journal photographer Arthur M. Vinje, camera in hand, arrives at the scene of the fire at the Pyramid Motor Company, 434 West Gilman Street, to take ... |
| Date: | 06 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Six firefighters are shown at First Assistant Fire Chief Leonard Sime's retirement party inside the Central Fire Station, 18 South Webster Street. Lieutena... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 812, class G5, built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in December of 1890. There is a device on the right ... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1079, class J2. The engineer was Philip Currie and the fireman was Edward C. McNeill. The third man in th... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1155, class I4, built by the company's shop in 1901. Posing in front of the engine from left to right, ar... |
| 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: | 05 03 1962 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Monona Masonry Company continue to install glass block windows at the Madison Board of Education building, 351 W. Wilson Street, while fir... |
| Date: | 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Vernon Dahnert sitting in a chair. He was the cook at Fire Station 8. |
| Date: | 08 20 1980 |
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| Description: | Several people are standing or walking along a sidewalk. Some of the people are holding signs, one of which reads: "19 months without a contract." Caption ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, fighting a forest fire. Two of the men have shovels; the third is directing a stream of water from a... |
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