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| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | A view from Bedford Street of the smouldering ruins of the Hotel Washington. A pedestrian crosses the street in front of a parked firetruck. Water being us... |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | Water from firehoses has frozen into ice that coats power wires, trees, and pumps at the gas station next to the Hotel Washington, which burns in the backg... |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | A stream of water shoots into the front entrance of the burning, smoking Hotel Washington. The crumpled hotel sign still hangs on the balcony. |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | Firefighters attempt to extinguish the blaze destroying the Hotel Washington. Most of the building has collapsed. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | In this high angle shot, Ukrainians are setting fire to their own village as German soldiers arrive on motorcycles, some with sidecars, in a production sti... |
| Date: | 10 26 1962 |
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| Description: | Deputy chief Ralph McGraw viewing a paint booth that was destroyed by a fire at the Clack Soft Water Service plant. |
| Date: | 01 03 1964 |
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| Description: | A $100,000-$150,000 fire destroys a lumber storage shed and its lumber and building supply inventory in downtown Sun Prairie. More than 100 firemen battled... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Margo Pirie and Sue Ann Hackett on an outdoor camping trip. They are seated near a campfire with a tent in the background. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Bank burning money in Tezpur, Assam during the Sino-Indian Border Conflict. The large pile of paper is steadily burning and a group of men watch from behin... |
| Date: | 11 1918 |
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| Description: | Members of the Droster Family stand among the remains of the Droster Brothers General Store after it burned down in November. It was located across the str... |
| Date: | 01 28 1918 |
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| Description: | Streams of water from fire hoses are trained into the upper windows of a storefront which is encased in thick ice. A written description of this photograph... |
| Date: | 10 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Fire at the newly constructed Imperial Apartments located at 3803 Monona Drive, adjacent to the Eastside Businessmen's Club. A plumber using an acetylene t... |
| Date: | 11 06 1964 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters battling a fire at the Art Brush Creations and Industrial Research printing plant in downtown Middleton. |
| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| Description: | A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men on a Farmall M tractor are moving a railroad car loaded with alfalfa meal away from a fire at Piehl Alfalfa Mill. |
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| Description: | Sid dressed in a suit and tie standing outdoors holding a sheet of paper that reads: "Fire Sale Soon" in front of an unknown building which during a fire. ... |
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| Description: | View across garbage and waste around a pool of water towards a fire burning in a landfill. Trees are along a ridge in the far background. |
| Date: | 09 07 1926 |
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| Description: | In the foreground is a fire, presumably with stumps that were pulled by the man in the background driving a tractor. |
| Date: | 07 22 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is using a tractor to pull down a tree. There is smoke along the ground from a fire. |
| Date: | 06 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right.... |
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