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Farm Hazard: Old Wooden Pump

Date: 1926
Description: A man pumps water from an old wooden pump into a tin cup. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrat...
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Farms Hazards: Children on Machinery

Date: 1926
Description: A child on a Farmall tractor. The original caption warns of the danger of children "fooling with levers on running machinery." This photo was taken for Int...
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Patrica Ann Patzer

Date: 09 04 1956
Description: Patrica Ann Patzer sits in a chair holding a teddy bear and doll. She recently fell 35 feet from a porch window to the ground.
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School Safety Patrol

Date: 12 27 1956
Description: Three girls wearing Wisconsin Safety Patrol t-shirts and belts pretending to show a girl that it is all right to cross the street.
Print

Taking a Header

Date: 12 20 1879
Description: Engraved image of a man falling off of a high-wheel bicycle. Two people in the background are watching the accident.
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 11 11 1957
Description: Three women attend an event to display Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary projects. They include, from left to right, Ina Marlow, Emily Sprague,...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 226-234

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Description: As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes
no modern culture could survive
without a touch of France
Photograph

Upside Down Bancroft Delivery Truck

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Description: An upside down Bancroft delivery truck. A man is standing just behind the front tires. On the right, a "Dane County Police Traffic" car can be seen behind ...
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Jaywalking Accident Injures Two People

Date: 07 28 1959
Description: An Illinois couple, unaware of Madison's pedestrian safety laws, were seriously injured by a car while jaywalking across East Washington Avenue. Police and...
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Motorcycle Collision

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Description: Motorcycle race contestant overturned on the track after collision with haybales.
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University of Minnesota Football Team's Victory Over the Badgers

Date: 11 19 1960
Description: The University of Minnesota football team beat the University of Wisconsin Badgers 26-7. The victory gave the Minnesota Gophers a tie with Iowa for the Big...
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University of Minnesota Football Team's Victory Over the Badgers

Date: 11 19 1960
Description: The University of Minnesota football team beat the University of Wisconsin Badgers 26-7. The victory gave the Minnesota Gophers a tie with Iowa for the Big...
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University of Minnesota Football Team's Victory Over the Badgers

Date: 11 19 1960
Description: The University of Minnesota football team beat the University of Wisconsin Badgers 26-7. The victory gave the Minnesota Gophers a tie with Iowa for the Big...
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Wrecked Car in a Ditch

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Description: View looking uphill towards a wrecked automobile resting in a ditch off the road. Probably due to an accident. People are standing near the top of the hill...
Postcard

Collapse of a Structure

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Description: View across what may be a metal roof towards a crowd of men looking at a collapsed structure of steel girders. The men are dressed in winter coats and hats...
Postcard

Collapse of Large Structure near Coal Pile

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Description: View across railroads tracks towards men walking around and examining a large industrial structure that has collapsed over a coal pile.
Postcard

Collapse of a Structure

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Description: Group portrait of men wearing winter coats and hats. They are standing on a metal roof, examining a large collapsed industrial structure which is behind th...
Postcard

Collapse of a Structure

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Description: Men and women walking around piles of coal while examining a collapsed structure in a coal yard.
Photograph

Sand Hauler Wreckage

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the wreckage. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after th...
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Wreckage of a Sand Hauler and Railroad Track

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Description: View of a railway at a construction site, with wreckage on the left side and a bridge in the background. Identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town ...

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