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| Description: | A tornado touching down in a field by a fence. The funnel widens out dramatically on the mid-horizon into a dark, sky-filling cloud. |
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| Description: | A woodcut of "The Carondelet, leading Logan's supply fleet, running the blockade at Vicksburg." |
| Date: | 07 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Four people are in the foreground overlooking two storm damaged large trailer homes, one piled on top of another. They and the trailers are at Elver Traile... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rear view of an automobile resting alongside a snow-filled Michigan Avenue during the winter. Other automobiles are parked near commercial buildings in the... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in a wooden chair while reading and resting his foot against a woodstove. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale ... |
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| Description: | The wreckage of buildings on the John Hedler farm after a tornado. An intact wooden barrel and part of a wooden fence stands in the center foreground. A la... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Damage caused by a tornado to a barn near Reseburg. The caption notes that the farm was rented and that "moonshine" was being made there. Some locals at t... |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Gerual Simonsen's barn, on the edge of Cambridge, destroyed by a wind storm. |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Strong winds brought down a large tree on the car of Mrs. Ralph Schroeder of rural Ft. Atkinson. Ralph Schroeder, age 3, and his mother narrowly escaped se... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | "Spectacular lightning lights up the sky on a summer evening." |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "The Lomira Legion building is framed in the arch of the Highway 67 overhead." |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "The tornado destroyed the Martin & Marcella Enderle home." |
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| Description: | Letterhead proof for the International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Association of the United States and Canada, of Milwaukee, Wisc... |
| Date: | 09 1984 |
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| Description: | "Rain and hail, with sun suddenly breaking through the overcast, were the right conditions for an unusual photograph." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view along the Mississippi River shoreline after a storm. The water is high and there are damaged boats and debris scattered around. In the background me... |
| Date: | 08 07 1924 |
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| Description: | Ruins after a tornado. Demolished farm buildings, wagons and a windmill. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with snow-covered trees after a storm in Gooding Park. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | This photograph of downed trees and branches is annotated, possibly by C.L. Harrington: "A fire hazard at this date Feb 28 '41. I have salvaged all or ab... |
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