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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: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters use an International Model VCO-202 fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a train... |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 03 20 1935 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Madison Steam Laundry, at 433 State Street, the scene of a fire. In front of the building is a fire truck with extension lad... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The first ladder wagon of Capitol Hook and Ladder Company #1 posed at the corner of Pinckney and Main streets to show off the length of the wagon and the 4... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Front cover color illustration of an advertising brochure for International B-line, R-line, V-line and CO-line fire truck chassis. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1934 line of International fire trucks, featuring an illustration of fire fighters climbing up a ladder, wit... |
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| Description: | Members of the Kilbourn Fire Department posing in uniform with a fire truck in front of the fire station on Oak Street. |
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| Description: | Fire at the elevator of the Atlas Flour Mill. Two men are working a water hose tower in the center, and fire fighters are aiming jets of water at the buil... |
| Date: | 10 13 1938 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International Model D-30 1938 fire truck in front of the Tama fire station. There is a ladder attached to the side behind... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | International Model KB-10 1948 truck belonging to St. Louis Fire Department at the scene of a fire. Original caption reads: 'KBR-10 149" wheelbase, double ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Men and fire fighters are gathered around burning building attempting to extinguish flames with an International Model V-196 1957 fire truck. The truck is ... |
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| Description: | Several uniformed fire fighters stand outside the Dougan Hills Fire Department in a driveway near two fire engines. The two-story fire station is covered ... |
| Date: | 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered outside International Harvester's Deering Works at Fullerton and River, as a crew of firemen works to extinguish a fire i... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Several men use hoses running from an International Model D-2 1938 panel truck owned by the Glendale Fire Department. |
| Date: | 07 1980 |
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| Description: | "Theresa firemen respond to a silo fire at the Henning farm on County P." |
| Date: | 05 1979 |
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| Description: | "Gene Koll, Bob Bogenschneider, and Gene Lackas pose with Theresa fire equipment." |
| Date: | 11 1991 |
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| Description: | "With windchill factors below zero, firemen battled this fire at Das Pioneer Bier haus, operated by Mike Polster. Former proprietors were John Miller, Henr... |
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