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| Description: | Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 07 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Truax Field tornado damage, 2 miles north of Truax Field. Francis Lockman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lockman, is sitting on the seat of their tractor whi... |
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| Description: | Four boys are posing standing and sitting among the debris of a collapsed wooden building at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, probably caused by a tornado. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
| Date: | 03 16 1915 |
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| Description: | Smoke surrounds several stumps in a field as they are burned to make way for a farm field. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching in between reels on a grain binder hitched to several horses on the farm of Peter Ricker. |
| Date: | 04 28 1926 |
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| Description: | A girl climbing on a felled tree branch lying across an upturned peg-toothed harrow. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A rotting and broken wooden well covering around a well pump near a field. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A child wearing a coat and hat is standing in a toy wagon marked "Lightning Coaster" beside a wagon box propped on wooden stakes. A flock of geese is in th... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of a stump as it's being blown up with explosives in a field on a farm. In the background is a train. |
| Date: | 02 1928 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a winter coat and hat is pumping water from a well into ladles two other boys are holding. A shed, wheelbarrow, and wood scraps are in the ba... |
| Date: | 09 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and directing another man who is driving a McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor for stretching a fence wire. The photograph was staged on In... |
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| Description: | The wreckage of buildings on the John Hedler farm after a tornado. An intact wooden barrel and part of a wooden fence stands in the center foreground. A la... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Damage caused by a tornado to a barn near Reseburg. The caption notes that the farm was rented and that "moonshine" was being made there. Some locals at t... |
| Date: | 07 1980 |
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| Description: | "Theresa firemen respond to a silo fire at the Henning farm on County P." |
| Date: | 04 30 1997 |
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| Description: | "At the fire on the opposite page [Page 26], this 3/4 full, 500 gallon propane tank exploded and was propelled 1/2 mile to this location on the Jim & Donna... |
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| Description: | View of a forest fire taken from an adjoining field. A fence separates the field from the burning trees. |
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