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| Date: | 02 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Mechanic punching a ticket at a time clock for a service job at one of International Harvester's motor truck branch service stations. A poster warning of t... |
| Date: | 02 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Orpheum and Capitol theatre ushers listening to a talk about fire prevention as they are standing beneath a marquee that advertises the epic "Cimarron." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | CUNA (Credit Union National Association) office staff working in hallway after fire, Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 03 15 1938 |
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| Description: | C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) office staff working in hallway after fire, Raiffeisen House, 142 E. Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 06 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A worker is sorting through the rubble from the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street. People in the ... |
| Date: | 11 09 1932 |
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| Description: | Barber, Roland Thistle at his bombed barbershop, 707 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
| 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: | 06 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Tornado damage at Truax Field area. Paul Gritzmacher and a cow are in the damaged barn. |
| Date: | 07 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Tornado damage in Truax Field area. Albert Anderson is shown holding the wire of a fence that held him during the storm. Oscar and Elmer Anderson, Albert's... |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | John J. Walsh, Madison attorney-at-law, standing next to the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, the scene of an accident in which a teena... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood. |
| Date: | 07 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Man standing in flood water at the building under construction for Forsberg Paper Box Company, 2107 Fordem Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers attempt to secure the trestle against high water on the Wisconsin River during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Factory workers looking at safety posters on a bulletin board at the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking Northwest. Workers are standing on the right next to the exposed drainage pipes in the damaged bridge. Sheets and quilts are covering the entranc... |
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