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| Description: | A long line of fire fighters in the street are aiming fire hoses at a building. Coils of hoses cover the street. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A small group of fire fighters fight an unseen fire with three fire hoses. Smoke obscures the fire, and on the right, a fire engine has smoke billowing fro... |
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| Description: | A group of fire fighters are standing in the street trying to put out the blaze from a nearly collapsed building. Smoke is billowing up from the remnants o... |
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| Description: | Seven fire fighters are in an alley putting out a fire in a building. Three of the fire fighters are running with a fire hose, while two other men hold the... |
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| Description: | A group of fire fighters standing in the street while two men are being raised on a moving ladder, which is attached to the back of a truck. Two other ladd... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A small group of four fighters and one of their bosses are standing amid burned remnants from a fire. One man is holding a fire hose that is spraying water... |
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| Description: | A fire boat is next to a dock with burning objects. Fire fighters on the boat are using high-powered hoses to put out a fire. Smoke and steam fill the back... |
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| Description: | View across water towards fire fighters in a boat on the river putting out a fire in a large building. Water sprays from fire hoses from two directions, wi... |
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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 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across rooftops towards smoke rising from a burning building in the city. The building on the left has a billboard supporting the Packers. A ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from rooftop of smoke billowing out of the roof of a burning brick building. Fire fighters are climbing on ladders on the side of the buildin... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a distance of a fire. A large cloud of smoke is billowing out of the burning building and fire fighters are climbing on a ladder. A buil... |
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| Description: | A large Victorian-style house gutted by a fire. Ladders are leaning up on the sides, reaching up many different levels. Two people are on the roof spraying... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters spraying hoses upwards towards a building amid smoke. On the right are two men aiming water with a tall pump on wheels. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the ruins from a fire in the 3rd Ward. Stone rubble covers the ground and parts of two stone-frame structures are still standing. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the ruins from a fire in the 3rd Ward. A section of a tall building, perhaps a wall, still stands. In the foreground on the right is a cart near a ... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Christian Schroeder & Sons, a real estate, loan, and insurance agent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of a residence, two m... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Globe Automatic Sprinkler Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a globe within the "O" of the company name, a sprinkler releasing water o... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Drawing depicting the Milwaukee Bank Riot of June 24, 1861. A large crowd is gathered outside the State Bank and Mitchell's Bank. A fire burns in the stree... |
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