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| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia. |
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| Description: | Group of men of the Life Saving Service posing in front of their boat. |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men are standing under a flagpole at the entrance of the Red Cross Headquarters. An International Red Baby truck is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 02 04 1951 |
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| Description: | Major Ira E. Nolte, Madison district commander of the Volunteers of America, inspects the wreckage left by a fire which destroyed two basement supply rooms... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The International Order of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) serve their fellow man by following the tenets of Friendship, Love, and Truth. A secret society for t... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fire set by an incendiary device made by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. In the extreme foreground the blurred image of a member of the group frames a s... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Small fire in the Everglades from a homemade incendiary device made by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. A member of the group is throwing rocks on the fi... |
| Date: | 10 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Ida Huff and William Aspinwall, Jr. answer a surprise alert phone call for a test of emergency services response while seated in an automobile. |
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| Description: | "Theresa Lions purchased this 'Annie' to practice CPR. Members are Bernie Adelmeyer, demonstrating, from left: Jim Wiseman, Ed Guelig, Neil Coulter, Harvey... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Richard Bosold, a member of the Boy Scout Troop 16 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic school, delivers one of the civil defense posters to Robert Schmitz, gener... |
| Date: | 11 1995 |
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| Description: | Gordon Allison, Gary Erdmann, and other members of American Legion Post 270 take part in a flag burning ceremony to commemorate Veteran's Day. |
| Date: | 01 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house, 146 Langdon Street, is extensively damaged by water and ice when a faulty furnace failed during overnight freezing temperat... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w... |
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