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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a pedestrian holding an umbrella during a snowstorm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Trees blown over by windstorm. There is a house in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Trees blown over by windstorm, at the Edward Korb farm, Route 1, Waunakee Road. |
| Date: | 01 19 1931 |
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| Description: | View of Mrs. Piper standing in the garden of Piper's Garden Cafeteria, 120 E. Mifflin Street, after a snowstorm. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Boy standing among the wreckage of various farm structures and implements apparently after a wind storm or tornado. |
| Date: | 09 02 1948 |
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| Description: | A garage and house at 537 S. Randall Avenue after a gust of wind blew two box elder trees into them. The trees were at the rear of the Owen F. Glissendorf'... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) at University of Wisconsin-Madison during a spring sleet storm. The trees in front of the building are coated in ice. A pedestr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cover of Mrs. A.G. Boehm's History of the New Richmond Cyclone of June 12th, 1899 featuring an engaving of a large cyclone and the wreckage it has left beh... |
| Date: | 10 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers repair an electrical pole that was partially blown over during a wind storm. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Regent Street and West... |
| Date: | 10 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Wind storm damage on Commonwealth Avenue at Keyes Avenue. A large limb fell on a new model car. |
| Date: | 04 27 1950 |
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| Description: | View of damage to the breakwater behind the home of Dr. J.G. Frisch, 1653 Sherman Avenue, caused by high water and waves driven by strong winds. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An International C-1 truck is parked along the side of a dirt road while men work on repairing damaged power poles. The original caption reads: "Nos. 109 a... |
| Date: | 05 18 1966 |
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| Description: | An upland field prepared for planting. In the distance, several farm buildings are visible beneath large storm clouds. |
| 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 ... |
| 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. |
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