Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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Description: | City of Chicago ambulance personnel are loading a person involved in an accident into an International ambulance as a small group of people are looking on.... |
Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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Description: | Men preparing newly arrived and unloaded McCormick-Deering relief tractors near railroad tracks. The tractors appear to be 10-20s. |
Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to drag metal pieces from a "tri-state tornado" damaged residential area. The trees along the street have bro... |
Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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Description: | Stereograph of rescuers and onlookers standing among the wreckage in the wake of a cyclone. Bare trees, horses, houses, and a church steeple are in the bac... |
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... |
Date: | 08 12 1950 |
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Description: | Eight University of Wisconsin summer students warming themselves in the Henry Schuette residence at 719 Farwell Drive, following a boat accident in which 2... |
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... |
Date: | 12 21 1953 |
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Description: | Portrait of Martha Verriden with her 14 month old son, Stevie. They lost their home and possessions in a fire at their trailer home at Oak Park Trailer Cou... |
Date: | 05 07 1956 |
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Description: | As part of a practice drill to prepare for possible disasters, phone calls are made to the crews of Explorer Post 503. Phoning are Gene Tschida (left), Exp... |
Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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Description: | Doris Ardelt, secretary of the Madison Civil defense office, hands out comic books to Mary Anthony, left, and Susan Peerenboom for distribution by the Girl... |
Date: | 09 2001 |
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Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) and Florida Congressman Young tour the destruction at the World Trade Center with an FBI guide a few days after... |
Date: | 09 2001 |
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Description: | Former President Bill Clinton, in the center without a hardhat, touring conditions at Ground Zero a few days after 9/11. In the background is the Verizon b... |
Date: | 09 2001 |
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Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | View towards a group of uniformed soldiers marching by tents. Identified as the National Guard assisting after the flood of Black River Falls in October 19... |
Date: | 09 28 1961 |
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Description: | Jerome A. Gumbinger, a member of the state fire prevention conference's planning committee, watches as two staff members demonstrate a technique for evacua... |
Date: | 10 01 1964 |
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Description: | The American Radio Relay League sponsors a communications and rescue drill based on a simulated flood near Verona. 30 workers and 35 mobile communications ... |
Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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Description: | Chatting about previous fire fighting experiences are (from left to right): Captain Arthur Wilcox, Firemen Russell Mani, and Wilbur Wright. They are sittin... |
Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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Description: | A tree is lying against a house at 3534 East Washington Avenue. The workers who cut the tree down said it had been weakened by high winds the day before. |
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