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Water Avenue Fire

Date: 12 31 1990
Description: Firefighters battle a fire that engulfed Kruk's Drug Store and Hansen's Department Store. The pharmacy was to change ownership the next day.
Postcard

Windsor Mine Shaft on Fire

Date: 05 02 1910
Description: The postcard shows billowing smoke from the Hurley, Wisconsin Windsor mine shaft. Two men who were in the mine at the time lost their lives. A group of boy...
Photograph

McGillivray Factory Fire

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view of the fire at the McGillivray factory. Pedestrians and onlookers are in the foreground.
Photograph

McGillivray Factory Fire

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view of the fire at the McGillivray factory.
Photograph

McGillivray Factory Fire

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view of the fire at the McGillivray factory. Onlookers are standing in the road in the foreground.
Photograph

McGillivray Factory Fire

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view of the fire at the McGillivray factory, with onlookers in the foreground.
Poster

Remember Belgium. Buy Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. Depicts in silhouette a German soldier running and dragging a girl against a b...
Photograph

Peshtigo Fire Cemetery Official Marker

Date: 03 29 1951
Description: Indoor group portrait of men posed with the Wisconsin Official Marker. From left to right on either side of the marker are: Clifford Lord, Secretary of Sit...
Poster

Souvenez-Vous!

Date: 10 1917
Description: Poster commissioned by the Rememberance League for an October, 1917, exhibition on German war crimes in France. Poster image shows a drawing of a German so...
Photograph

Fire Damage

Date: 1910
Description: Five men standing on the far left survey fire damage on Main Street between N. 2nd and N. 3rd St in Winneconne. The area is completely destroyed. Surroundi...
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Aftermath of a Fire

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of the aftermath of a fire, with several buildings surrounding the cleared area. Identified as Fairchild in Eau Claire County and the remains...
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Wisconsin Capitol after 1904 Fire

Date: 1900
Description: Construction debris litters the ground around the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison) as reconstruction of the capitol proceeds after the 190...
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Wisconsin Capitol after 1904 Fire

Date: 1904
Description: Men working on the reconstruction of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison) after the 1904 fire.
Photograph

Clack Soft Water Service Plant Fire

Date: 10 26 1962
Description: Deputy chief Ralph McGraw viewing a paint booth that was destroyed by a fire at the Clack Soft Water Service plant.
Photograph

Barn Fire Near Brooklyn

Date: 10 05 1963
Description: Firemen are fighting a blaze that destroyed a barn and its contents 2 miles south of Brooklyn.
Print

Madison Fire Department Opening Announcement

Date: 05 14 1886
Description: Printed announcement of the opening of the Madison Fire Department. At the top, in a circular frame, is a fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine. B...
Photograph

Bank Burning Money, Tezpur, Assam

Date: 1962
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...
Photograph

Imperial Apartments, 3803 Monona Drive, Damaged by Fire

Date: 10 12 1964
Description: Close to $40,000 in damage caused by a workman's torch occurred at the newly constructed Imperial Apartments located at 3803 Monona Drive, Monona, adjacen...
Photograph

Imperial Apartments, 3803 Monona Drive, Damaged by Fire

Date: 10 12 1964
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...
Photograph

Middleton Industrial Fire

Date: 11 06 1964
Description: Fire fighters battling a fire at the Art Brush Creations and Industrial Research printing plant in downtown Middleton.

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