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| Date: | 10 31 1948 |
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| Description: | John Speranza stands at the ruins of his store, dairy bar and home on Highways 12 & 18 south of Madison (2606 West Broadway). With him is his wife, Bertha ... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for an exhibition titled "Fire Holes." Center burn image created by actually burning paper. Letterpress text below reads, "An exhibition... |
| Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three horse-drawn fire engines are in the street with steam rising from their tanks. Other fire vehicles are to the right. Many pedestrians are on the stre... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered on the street as jets of water are being directed by fire fighters towards a fire in a church. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Groups of fire fighters work to put out a fire in winter. Smoke is billowing out the windows and covering the facade. A building on the far left has a sign... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Small clusters of fire fighters work to put out a fire with fire hoses, which are aimed high at a building covered in smoke. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Postcard photograph of the remains of the living room at Taliesin after the fire destroyed most of the living quarters. The living room fireplace, and a po... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Remains of the living quarters of Taliesin as seen from the courtyard after a fire destroyed most of the building. Several people are standing in the court... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 10 10 1916 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops from the south of a fire which destroyed the Bascom Hall rotunda. |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children. |
| Date: | 10 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Side view of tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, showing the lone window of the tiny sleeping room (far... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Charred remains of the open stairway, which was the closest means of escape for the families who lived upstairs at the rear of the building at 15 South Bed... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fireman Orrin Zebarth is shown at the foot of the narrow, steep front stairs which occupants were forced to use when flames cut off escape routes at the re... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Week-old oil heater which exploded and caused the fire in the tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, which is located at the rear of the city gara... |
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