Date: | 02 1892 |
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Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
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Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
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Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of a posed group of orphan children of miners from mine disaster, Nov. 13, 1909. Caption reads: "#31 Group made orphans by Cherry Min... |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of funeral and tent/morgue from the Cherry Mine disaster. Caption reads: "#37 Cherry Mine Horror Showing Morgue Dunham Photo Princeto... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of people gathering around an air shaft of a mine in after a mining disaster. Caption reads: "(?) at Mine Disaster showing wrecked ai... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a family. Caption reads: "W.H. Clelland and Family. One of the Cherry Mine survivers [sic]. It is this man who was said to have le... |
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Description: | John L. Lewis, in miner's hat, after West Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Pictures and diagrams mounted on a wall in a "new building" at International Harvester's Deering Works. The display was part of an industrial exhibit and d... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol after the unfinished South Wing collapsed on November 8, 1883. Defective workmanship and shoddy construction materials ca... |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Workers operating machines at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The original caption reads: "Use of photograph questioned by Industrial Relations De... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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Description: | Damaged pump house after an oil tank explosion at Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue. |
Date: | 08 11 1934 |
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Description: | Doyon Lumber Co., following a warehouse fire, located at 638 West Mifflin Street. |
Date: | 10 27 1930 |
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Description: | Lymon Schley, cottage fire burn victim, smoking a cigarette in the hospital. |
Date: | 05 03 1927 |
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Description: | Collapsed back wall of Netherwood's Printing Co., at 519 State Street. |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587. |
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