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Time Realty Building Accident

Date: 11 02 1960
Description: The smashed-in front facade of the Time Realty Co. office, 2434 University Avenue, as a result of a car backing up with a stuck accelerator. Seen inside th...
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Time Realty Building Accident

Date: 11 02 1960
Description: The smashed-in storefront of the Time Realty Company building at 2434 University Avenue as a result of a car backing up with a stuck accelerator.
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Automobile Retrieved from Midvale Boulevard Ditch

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Held Up

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene on the Road Near White Creek, Wis." and at the bottom: "Held Up". Photomontage of a cow, an automobile and five men. The automo...
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Tree Crashed Into Apartment House

Date: 07 02 1958
Description: Susan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Summers, standing indoors next to the window that was smashed by an old willow tree that split and crashed into ...
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Patricia Ann Palmer (2) Caught in Truax Park Drainage Pipe

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the...
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Behr Residence Showing Where Child Fell

Date: 10 23 1930
Description: Behr residence, with a dotted line and an "x" showing where a child fell.
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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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Disk Harrow Disks

Date: 12 31 1935
Description: Accident in plant, showing Disk Harrow disks in storage area.
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Illinois Northern Railroad Train

Date: 07 1907
Description: View towards the side of an Illinois Northern railroad train, with two engines, a coal car and a car with the front wall burst out. At McCormick Works. The...
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Hole in Plant Floor at McCormick Works

Date: 05 11 1907
Description: View from plant floor, looking up at collapsed floor on the next level.
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Hole in Plant Floor at McCormick Works

Date: 05 11 1907
Description: View looking down through a hole in the collapsed plant floor at McCormick Works. The first floor and windows in the brick wall are below.
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Plant Floor Debris at McCormick Works

Date: 05 11 1907
Description: View towards brick wall and window of debris from floor collapse in factory building.
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Hole in Plant Floor at McCormick Works

Date: 05 11 1907
Description: Interior view from plant floor, towards a floor collapsed on level above. Men are standing on the first floor, and other men are looking down from above at...
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Hole in Plant Floor at McCormick Works

Date: 05 11 1907
Description: View towards collapsed floor on second level, with factory floor below. Brick wall along opposite side.
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Demonstration of Possible Accident at Work

Date: 04 25 1928
Description: Man posing demonstrating possible accident in work situation.
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Automobile Accident

Date: 1922
Description: View looking down towards of an automobile resting in a roadside ditch. The soft roof cover is collapsed, and the wheels on the passenger side are bent. Th...
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Town Creek Construction; Wreck of Cars Hauling Sand

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Description: View of the aftermath of a wreck involving railroad cars hauling sand at the Town Creek construction site.
Poster

Warning! Consider The Possible Consequences If You Are Careless In Your Work

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting an elevated view of a downed plane tail up and floating in the sea with survivors standing on top of it. A seaplane i...
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Car Wreck, Sun Prairie Road

Date: 08 03 1934
Description: View down road towards a group of people looking at an overturned automobile belonging to Fred Swanson. Fred and Norma Swanson, Dorothy Thompson, Edward an...

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