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| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, rear exterior view of damaged roof and gutter. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Civil Air Patrol membership card belonging to Meinhardt Raabe. |
| Date: | 06 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Civil Air Corps card, Escanaba chapter, issued to Meinhardt Raabe. |
| Date: | 03 06 1966 |
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| Description: | National headquarters of the W.E.B. DuBois Club in San Francisco after it was bombed. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia. |
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| Description: | Group of men of the Life Saving Service posing in front of their boat. |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men are standing under a flagpole at the entrance of the Red Cross Headquarters. An International Red Baby truck is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Side view of an International truck used as a mobile disaster unit by the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross. The truck is parked in what appears to... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a line of uniformed women employed by the American Red Cross Disaster Unit standing near rows of parked International trucks. |
| Date: | 04 23 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the "Survival Revival Women's Conference." The poster features an American flag patterned castle in flames with a parade of women marching... |
| Date: | 02 04 1951 |
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| Description: | Major Ira E. Nolte, Madison district commander of the Volunteers of America, inspects the wreckage left by a fire which destroyed two basement supply rooms... |
| Date: | 03 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Catherine Coffey at St. Mary's hospital, 720 South Brooks Street, where she lives and works as a dietary helper. The Dane County Red Cross was respons... |
| Date: | 03 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Wesley Morrison of 403 Rogers Street talks on the phone with the Dane County Red Cross while asking for assistance in obtaining a leave for her son, C... |
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| Description: | A general view of two members of the U.S. Life-saving Crew in a boat, during capsize drill. Camp facilities are on the left riverbank in a wooded area. Cap... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The International Order of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) serve their fellow man by following the tenets of Friendship, Love, and Truth. A secret society for t... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fire set by an incendiary device made by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. In the extreme foreground the blurred image of a member of the group frames a s... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Small fire in the Everglades from a homemade incendiary device made by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. A member of the group is throwing rocks on the fi... |
| Date: | 10 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Ida Huff and William Aspinwall, Jr. answer a surprise alert phone call for a test of emergency services response while seated in an automobile. |
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