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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
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| Date: | 07 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison fire fighters load Red Cross boxes to send overseas. Each box contained 36 knit bags made and filled by volunteers, each bag contained a pencil, st... |
| Date: | 05 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 05 13 1947 |
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| Description: | 1919 ladder fire truck at Fire Station No. 7, 2410 Monroe Street. Fire fighters (L to R), Capt. Arthur Emerson, Joseph Roberts, Harold Klein, Arthur Halver... |
| Date: | 11 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three fire trucks at a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 South Carroll Street. Other buildings on the street, looking ... |
| Date: | 11 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Fire truck at the corner of S. Carroll and W. Doty Streets putting out a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 S. Carroll Street. Other buil... |
| Date: | 05 04 1948 |
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| Description: | A house trailer, owned by Edward Kirby, exploded at the Taylor trailer camp, 1038 South Park Street. The explosion was caused by a bottle gas leak. Kirby a... |
| Date: | 06 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Donald Hanson, who discovered the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company and turned in the alarm. The fire total... |
| Date: | 06 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Several members of Local 311, Madison Firemen's union, are posed around Dick Lerwick, whom the union is sponsoring in the 1948 Soap Box Derby. Kneeling Ed... |
| Date: | 08 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fireman John Hoffman at the wheel of a 1929 pumper truck which is going to be "retired". |
| Date: | 08 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking south on South Webster Street with the soon to be "retired" pumper fire truck and six fire fighters, parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 1... |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown. |
| Date: | 09 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire Chief Edward J. Page (right) and Lieut. Albert Rogg standing next to one of three new Madison fire truck at the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webs... |
| Date: | 01 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Five fire fighters, Kendall Niebuhr, William J. Sullivan, John G. Randall, Chief Edward J. Page, and Gill S. Stone, pose with newly customized rescue truck... |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Firemen are carrying a hose up an extension ladder during a fire at Ann Emery Hall, 263-71 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison fireman Arnold Moen lying on the ground near two other firemen. He was overcome by smoke at the Ann Emery Hall fire at 263-71 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 04 05 1950 |
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| Description: | A reserve water tank truck with a 1,100 gallon capacity has been added to the town of Madison fire department to insure adequate water supply in fighting f... |
| Date: | 05 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A Madison fire truck parks at the scene of a Greyhound bus fire at the corner of East Main Street and South Pinckney Street in front of the S.S. Kresge sto... |
| Date: | 07 18 1951 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby Entrant, 11-year-old Johnny Huseboe, behind the wheel of a fire truck at No. 5 fire station, 2137 Atwood Avenue, along with four fire fighte... |
| Date: | 01 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Carol Jean Brown, the six-year-old daughter of Donald and Eugenia Brown, 2917 Monroe Street, fell through the ice on the Lake Wingra lagoon near Arbor Driv... |
| Date: | 11 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing on the roof of Quality Service Laundry at 1202 Regent Street as smoke is billowing out from below. |
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