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| 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: | Forest rangers using an emergency phone on the back of a truck. |
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| Description: | Several men fighting a small forest fire. One man has a water pack on his back. |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Citizens look on as City of Chicago emergency personnel and others carry an injured boy at an accident scene. The event was most likely a staged exercise. ... |
| 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 03 1979 |
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| Description: | Emergency workers assist the passenger injured in an accident at North Sherman Boulevard and W. North Avenue. The automobile, which was driven by a ninete... |
| Date: | 11 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Dane County Traffic Police receiving first aid training. Officer E.W. Kelzenberg on the left, Lieut. A.C. Pope in the middle, and Officer Ralph Conklin on... |
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| Description: | Men and fire fighters are gathered around burning building attempting to extinguish flames with an International fire truck. The truck is labeled "Engine N... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
| Date: | 07 30 2011 |
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| Description: | Firefighters respond to a fire at the Democratic Party Office at 118 Fifth Avenue. Viewed from Fourth Street intersection. |
| 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: | Debris from the collapse of the Twin Towers in the churchyard at St. Paul's Church near the World Trader Center, a few days after 9/11. |
| Date: | 2001 |
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| Description: | Seven World Trade Center, the ruins of a World Trade Center building that was so severely damaged by the collapse of the North Tower on 9/11 that it collap... |
| 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, in the blue shirt) touring the 9/11 Ground Zero site with an unidentified FBI official, Joan Obey, and an unide... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) talking with New York City firemen who were involved in the rescue and recovery effort after the attack on the ... |
| Date: | 11 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Two Rhesus monkeys are still at large after about four months of freedom. Thirty-three monkeys escaped from a Vilas Park zoo cage on August 4, 1960. Zoo di... |
| 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: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) waiting for rescue workers to free her right leg caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Her father Michael B. Palmer, at ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) is rescued from an abandoned drainage pipe at Truax Park. A rescue crew member carries her bundled in a blanket to a police car for... |
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