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| 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: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Construction debris litters the ground around the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison) as reconstruction of the capitol proceeds after the 190... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Men working on the reconstruction of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison) after the 1904 fire. |
| Date: | 06 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right.... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing in front of a tent set up outdoors as temporary headquarters for Findorff after a fire. Caption reads: "After the destruction ... |
| Date: | 06 01 1909 |
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| Description: | Findorff staff carrying on the business in the tent after the fire. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Wearing gloves, I.P. Rumsey is holding a stick and tending a smoking fire outdoors in a clearing on the Island. Archibald Lake is in the background. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Looking at the camera, Albert Rhode, possibly a lumberjack, is standing and holding a big, heavy log. He is wearing a long sleeved shirt, pants, and a hat.... |
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