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| Date: | 09 21 1931 |
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| Description: | View of damaged farmhouse and group of people sitting and standing outdoors. The roof was blown off and windows were shattered. Four women stand in the yar... |
| Date: | 04 25 1960 |
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| Description: | A crowd of onlookers is standing in front of a house at 2120 Waunona Way that was engulfed in fire. The incident was caused by a lightning strike of adjace... |
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| Description: | Outdoor view across road towards a man posing standing on a wooden walkway near downed trees and branches and in front of a two-story wooden house. |
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| Description: | View towards the front of a church, with wooden debris in the forground. People are standing near the entrance behind the debris. Identified as the old Cat... |
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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: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project burn the effigy of a black man." The mock-lynching was staged by a group of students in th... |
| Date: | 10 10 1913 |
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| Description: | View towards a tornado-damaged home with most of the roof missing and a collapsed barn. A chicken is in the yard. Captions read: "Barn" and "Mrs. E.C. Barn... |
| Date: | 07 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Susan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Summers, standing indoors next to the window that was smashed by an old willow tree that split and crashed into ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street. |
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