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Accident in Milwaukee

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Description: On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover.
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Plow Furrows

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Description: Furrows plowed to stop a forest fire in Douglas County along County N, west of Solon Springs.
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Imminent Head-On Collision on Rural Road

Date: 07 1927
Description: A staged scene showing a car passing a truck while another car is coming the other way. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural...
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Damaged English Sports Car

Date: 06 10 1935
Description: Damaged English Singer sports car on the street, E. Washington Avenue, with Brayton School in the background.
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Automobile Accident

Date: 11 30 1934
Description: View across street towards a group of people looking at the automobile driven by W.B. Peterson which climbed the concrete abutment guarding a safety island...
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Car Wreck, Sun Prairie Road

Date: 08 03 1934
Description: View down road towards a group of people looking at an overturned automobile belonging to Fred Swanson. Fred and Norma Swanson, Dorothy Thompson, Edward an...
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Flooded Park Street Viaduct

Date: 05 19 1933
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...
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Remains of a Fire

Date: 08 30 1931
Description: Elevated view of crowds gathering to survey the smoke and ash left after a fire demolished buildings.
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Safety Zone on W. Mifflin Street

Date: 01 06 1931
Description: A man stands at a safety zone in the middle of West Mifflin Street between lanes of traffic at the corner of State Street and N. Carroll Street, waiting to...
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Flooded Rural Road in Alabama

Date: 03 05 1915
Description: Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found...
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Flooded Road in Rural Alabama

Date: 02 13 1915
Description: Two men traveling in a horse-drawn wagon on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "Example of road building in Lamar County on the Vernon-Columbus ...
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Flooded Railroad Tracks

Date: 04 22 1965
Description: A panoramic view of the Mississippi River flooding during the spring, showing the dykes built along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks at Sec...
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Railroad Tracks Flooding

Date: 04 21 1965
Description: View down flooded railroad tracks of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad by the Mississippi River. There are houses on the left, and in the backgroun...
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Car Wrecked by Falling Tree

Date: 07 03 1947
Description: Car, wrecked by falling tree, parked next to a house at Edwards Park. The tree has been removed and sawed into pieces.
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Highway Patrolman's Day

Date: 1961
Description: Photograph taken through the broken windshield of a Wisconsin State highway patrol car. The patrolmen are at the scene of an automobile accident somewhere ...
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Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
Description: Elevated view of a mill during a flood.
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Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
Description: Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the...
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Illinois Central Railroad Tracks

Date: 09 05 1947
Description: The train engineer's view (looking east) of the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at Regent Street, Breeze Terrace, and Little Street, taken one-hundred f...
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Wisconsin State Journal Building Fire

Date: 11 19 1947
Description: Fire truck at the corner of S. Carroll and W. Doty Streets putting out a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 S. Carroll Street. Other buil...
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Automobile Crossing Flooded Road

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Description: An automobile is attempting to cross a flooded street as onlookers are watching.

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