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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Bow of the sidewheel packet, "Quincy," sunk in 1906. People are standing on temporary pier beside her. Later raised and renamed the "J.S." |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Side view of the sidewheel packet, Quincy, sinking in 1906. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Lat... |
| Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
| Date: | 06 25 1910 |
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| Description: | The wreck of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., after being destroyed by fire. Caption reads: "This wreck of the Str. J.S. Burned June 25, 1910, now ly... |
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| Description: | Men with shovels during the flood at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters use an International fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a training exercise. ... |
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| Description: | Map of the district of the Peshtigo fire, approximately 1,280,000 acres, in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 04 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin River in flood, looking downstream. |
| 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... |
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