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| Date: | 05 27 1941 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman and Robert "Bob" Brayton, Public Relations Director or the American Automobile Association. They are standing in front... |
| Date: | 03 18 1924 |
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| Description: | "Clock at Goldman's Jewelry Store, corner of Wisconsin Avenue and E. Water Street, run down by a truck." A crowd gathers around the broken clock. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Passers-by help move a disabled vehicle after an automobile accident on Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Men looking at a crushed Wisconsin Telephone Company truck as the result of an accident with the Milwaukee Road passenger train locomotive. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken through the broken windshield of a Wisconsin State highway patrol car. The patrolmen are at the scene of an automobile accident somewhere ... |
| Date: | 11 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Frank S. Perry, 21, 1218 Rutledge Street, escaped uninjured when the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck he was driving with a trailer he was towing veered o... |
| Date: | 06 07 1966 |
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| Description: | View from road of a truck pulled off to the side of the road. The back of the truck is collapsed, containing beehives spilling onto the ground. "E.R. Raley... |
| Date: | 07 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Crashed automobile on tow truck, with traffic officer, Russell Klitzman, and deputy sheriff, Eldon Johnson, viewing the car. |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Shorewood Hills marshalls Lee Cripps and Frank Ashworth measuring skid marks at an accident scene. |
| Date: | 08 08 1950 |
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| Description: | A crowd of onlookers surrounds a wrecked automobile. The accident occurred at Highway 30 and North Fair Oaks Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 18 1948 |
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| Description: | The delegation of state, county, city, university, and business officials is shown as the caravan is about to leave from the Dane County Courthouse, 207 We... |
| Date: | 08 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Overturned taxicab, after collision with a city bus at the corner of Regent and Mills Street, injuring four people. Also shows a crowd of people looking on... |
| Date: | 08 27 1946 |
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| Description: | A City Car Company cab on its roof after a collision with a bus at the corner of Mills and Regent Streets. The car skidded 42 feet from the point of impac... |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Northwestern passenger train and truck collision at Commercial Avenue crossing in which two people, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Thompson (Alice) were killed. T... |
| Date: | 05 13 1938 |
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| Description: | Mr. Henry Scott's Pontiac, scratch on right rear fender. |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | An ice truck is lying overturned on Highways 12-13 after encountering a patch of ice near Club Chanticleer west of Middleton. The truck and load of ice ove... |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Police shown busy at the site of one of many crashes during a heavy rain. The driver of this car was injured when a trucker misjudged the distance during t... |
| Date: | 12 07 1962 |
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| Description: | The car of Californian Charles E. Reid lying submerged in Lake Wingra at the end of Knickerbocker Street after a police chase resulting from him holding up... |
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