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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of people gathering around an air shaft of a mine in after a mining disaster. Caption reads: "(?) at Mine Disaster showing wrecked ai... |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Damaged pump house after an oil tank explosion at Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 19 1932 |
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| Description: | Collapsed Conklin Icehouse from Lake Wingra. |
| Date: | 08 19 1932 |
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| Description: | Close-up of collapsed Conklin Icehouse at Lake Wingra. |
| Date: | 08 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Four children are looking at the ruins of the Royal Airport hangar after a fire. |
| Date: | 08 16 1932 |
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| Description: | People looking at the ruins of the Royal Airport hangar and office after a fire. Viewed from the southwest. |
| Date: | 08 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the Royal Airport hangar after a fire. Viewed from the road. |
| Date: | 02 03 1932 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a White Motor Company Northland Greyhound Lines damaged bus. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the roof of a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a collapsed ice house towards the shoreline looking north. |
| Date: | 06 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Several men try to extinquish a fire in an ice house, which is known as the Conklin Fire. |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a fire damaged beer delivery truck with "Got It? Get It!" painted on its doors. An exploding oil furnace destroyed the interior of the Madison... |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | The ruins of the fan house and escape shaft after a mining disaster at Cherry mine. A group of men and children are standing in the foreground. |
| Date: | 11 18 1909 |
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| Description: | Miners building a temporary hoisting apparatus after the November 13, 1909, disaster at Cherry mine in Illinois where 400 men were entombed. |
| Date: | 12 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Man standing on bulk tanks at Cities Service Oil Company Plant, 815 East Main Street, where an explosion killed welder Harold Michelson. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Footbridge on river. Caption reads: "The Foot Bridge at Oconto, Wis., That went down with the Oconto Freshman Class." |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
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