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| Date: | 01 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Traffic on a street with cars raising spray from a puddle. |
| Date: | 07 23 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Below the High Bridge After the Flood. Wausau, Wisconsin." Railroad cars were swept away when dams at Brokaw and Merrill failed on th... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A GMC truck and an automobile are splashing through a large puddle in a small town. The town's water tower is in the background. |
| Date: | 04 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Avenue Food Shop, 546 W. Washington Avenue, showing water in basement. |
| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Flooded Park Street viaduct, with a railroad train on tracks above the viaduct. There is a car in the water under the viaduct, and a man is standing on the... |
| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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| Description: | View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across grain piled in a field, which appears to be flooded in the background. There is a building in the distance. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Clump of grain in a field, perhaps left by a flood. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across field flooded with water towards trees in the distance. There are clumps of hay or plants in the water. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across water towards trees in the distance. There are clumps of hay or plants in the water, perhaps a flooded field. |
| Date: | 04 13 1922 |
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| Description: | The car is plowing through flood waters on Main Street. Commercial buildings and telephone poles are in the background. |
| Date: | 04 10 1922 |
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| Description: | Two women are walking through floodwaters from the Oconto River. A horse-drawn carriage with its wheels halfway underwater is in the background near the Oc... |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 03 26 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of a car coming down Main Street during the flood of March 1920. Caption reads: "Main St." |
| Date: | 08 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Dane County nurses and secretaries mop the floor of their third-floor public Health Department offices in the City-County Building after a faulty automatic... |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 04 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and another person are in a rowboat in the flooded waters under the entrance to the covered bridge in Stonefield Village, which is a Wisconsin Histor... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Black River after the 1911 flood. Severely eroded banks are on the left. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of a bridge damaged by the 1911 flood. Debris is scattered in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of the Black River after the 1911 flood. The banks are eroded, and power lines are downed. |
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