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| 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: | 11 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer and Co.'s Madison-based truck drivers and mechanics were instructed in methods of extinguishing fires in tires, wooden crates, and automobiles ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing near two buildings which burned in 1893. In the center background is Edgewood Villa, a home purchased by Governor C.C. (Cadwallade... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two barefoot children who are near a charred wooden sidewalk, lower left, that marks the course of Nebraska (now West Montello) Street tow... |
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| Description: | View across street towards Sid standing on the back of a fire engine with a cigar in his mouth. A police officer wearing a uniform and a badge is standing ... |
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| Description: | View across street towards Sid standing on the back of a fire engine with a cigar in his mouth. In the background are storefronts destroyed by fire and cov... |
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| Description: | View of Sid standing in the street with a cigar in his mouth looking at damaged storefronts covered with icicles. Snow and ice cover the sidewalk, and a fi... |
| Date: | 09 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Lynn Norton and Cathy Mess unveiling the Phillips Fire historical marker, while Avrid Bostrom and Alderman Victor Cress (seated) look on. Bostrom, a l... |
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| Description: | Four-fold, copy art Christmas card made by Sid with two photographs of damaged commercial buildings after a fire. In one image, Sid stands on the slushy st... |
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| Description: | Left side view of a man operating a 500 Pay Dozer. The trees and ground in the background are black, and there is smoke. |
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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. ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1908 |
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| Description: | Grant School in the aftermath of Fond du Lac's biggest fire — September 26, 1908. Caption reads: "Grant School." |
| Date: | 09 26 1908 |
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| Description: | Gutted remains of St. Joseph's Church in the aftermath of the fire of September 26, 1908. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the aftermath of a fire at a canning factory. Men are inspecting the charred ruins, which are smoking. Buildings and a church tow... |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing a man leaping from the burning Newhall House and being caught in a large canvas held taut by a group of men. |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing two women attempting to escape the burning Newhall House by lowering themselves from a window using blankets tied t... |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing people clinging to a windowsill on the Newhall House attempting to escape the burning building. One woman in the fo... |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving showing people attempting to locate loved ones among the bodies recovered from the Newhall House fire. |
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