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| 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: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of emergency ambulance personnel and fire fighters posing with an International Model S-26 1926 ambulance on the left, and on the right a fi... |
| Date: | 01 13 1929 |
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| Description: | Flames light up the night as fire fighters hose down the Jeffery Brothers Automobile Preparing and Storage building at 621 University Avenue in an attempt ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters posing with their International Model H 1920 fire truck. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International municipal service trucks. Features a color illustration of a fire truck and part of a burning building s... |
| Date: | 10 08 1923 |
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| Description: | Two fire fighters are sitting in an International Model S 1924 fire truck on a street. Another man is standing on the back of the truck. On the side of the... |
| 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Firefighters handle a fire hose connected to an International Model 61 1923 fire truck operated by the "Canadian Fire Department." |
| Date: | 07 20 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a fire hose to spray the corner of a brick building with a bell tower. Another man is sitting in an International Model S 1926 truck oper... |
| Date: | 04 12 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in an International Model SF-34 1927 fire truck marked "Ogdensburg, N.Y." They are parked in front of what appears to be a fire station. |
| Date: | 11 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Several men are sitting and standing around an International Model S-26 1927 truck with pump(?) while other men are operating fire hoses shooting water up ... |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | A group of men, possibly fire fighters, appear poised to take part in a hook and ladder competition. A Red Baby truck and other vehicles are parked nearby.... |
| Discover the overlooked history of Wisconsin's deadly wildfires, including the 1871 disaster that killed 1,500 people. |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Two firefighters are standing next to a fire department ambulance, Model S-26 1926 (custom), parked outside the open doorway of a Fire Department building.... |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Two fire fighters are loading a man in a stretcher into an ambulance near the side of a brick building. A man on the right, wearing a coat and hat, is look... |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Two fire fighters are carrying a stretcher from an ambulance into a home. A man wearing a coat, suit and hat is standing in the open door. |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards a group of people loading a person onto a stretcher. An ambulance is parked nearby. |
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