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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Bjarne Bendixon and Dog Sandy
May 3, 1957
Bjarne Bendixson on his hands and knees, leaning over his dog, Sandy, wrapped in a blanket. They were saved by their housekeeper when fire flashed through the kitchen of their home at 906 East Miff...
Madison Apartment Fire
February 19, 1959
Madison firemen fighting an apartment fire at 146 West Johnson street.
Firemen Fighting Fire at Abandoned North Western Railway Ice House
September 28, 1957
Three firemen are spraying water on a fire at the abandoned North Western Railway ice house, located on South Brearly Street along the railroad tracks between South Brearly and Ingersoll Streets. A...
Arboretum Brush Fire
March 8, 1954
Brush fire in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.
Explosion Kills Couple
January 6, 1958
Explosion and fire in the 200 block of North Bassett Street caused the deaths of William and Gladys McGrath and destruction of five buildings. Firemen are seen training a hose on a porch in an atte...
Patricia Ann Palmer (2) Caught in Truax Park Drainage Pipe
March 26, 1958
Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the concrete foundation of an Army barracks w...
