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Peshtigo Fire

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Description: Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire.
Photograph

Burning Stumps

Date: 03 16 1915
Description: Smoke surrounds several stumps in a field as they are burned to make way for a farm field.
Photograph

Silo Fire

Date: 07 1980
Description: "Theresa firemen respond to a silo fire at the Henning farm on County P."
Photograph

Fire on Schwertz Farm

Date: 04 30 1997
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...
Photograph

Forest Fire

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Description: View of a forest fire taken from an adjoining field. A fence separates the field from the burning trees.
Photograph

Forest Fire

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Description: View across a field towards thick smoke billowing from a forest fire. People are in an open field in the distance. A road with trucks parked along it runs ...
Photograph

Burning a Wood Pile

Date: 1935
Description: View across cleared field towards a large pile of wood on fire. In the background is a line of trees.

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