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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
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| Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
| Date: | 12 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Chandler B. and Frances Chapman home, 640 N. Carroll Street, showing the living room from the hall after the fire. |
| Date: | 12 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Chandler B. and Frances Chapman home, 640 N. Carroll Street, showing the west bedroom after fire. |
| Date: | 12 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Chandler B. and Frances Chapman home, 640 N. Carroll Street, west bathroom, after fire. |
| Date: | 02 1904 |
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| Description: | Damage caused to the third Wisconsin State Capitol by the fire of February 26-27. This photograph shows the first floor corridor, looking West. Still intac... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | In this photograph, probably taken during the early spring, cleanup of the damage to the Wisconsin State Capitol caused by the fire of February 26-27, 1904... |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | Spectators standing at the South Wing during the aftermath of the fire which destroyed the second Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, February 26-27, 1904.... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | The interior back porch doors of the Bradley House after the fire of March 17. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Rebuilding of homes and barns after the fire in 1894. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Postcard photograph of the remains of the living room at Taliesin after the fire destroyed most of the living quarters. The living room fireplace, and a po... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Remains of the living quarters of Taliesin as seen from the courtyard after a fire destroyed most of the building. Several people are standing in the court... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from rooftop of smoke billowing out of the roof of a burning brick building. Fire fighters are climbing on ladders on the side of the buildin... |
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| Description: | A large Victorian-style house gutted by a fire. Ladders are leaning up on the sides, reaching up many different levels. Two people are on the roof spraying... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children. |
| Date: | 10 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Side view of tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, showing the lone window of the tiny sleeping room (far... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Charred remains of the open stairway, which was the closest means of escape for the families who lived upstairs at the rear of the building at 15 South Bed... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fireman Orrin Zebarth is shown at the foot of the narrow, steep front stairs which occupants were forced to use when flames cut off escape routes at the re... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Science Hall (1876-1884) after the fire and in the process of being demolished on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View from Bascom Hill towards the west facade of the original Science Hall building (1876-1884) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after the fir... |
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