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| Date: | 11 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer and Co.'s Madison-based truck drivers and mechanics were instructed in methods of extinguishing fires in tires, wooden crates, and automobiles ... |
| Date: | 11 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Cave-in on Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard), caused by a water main leak. View is looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol, with automob... |
| Date: | 01 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Traffic on a street with cars raising spray from a puddle. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | The Bradley House after the fire of March 17. There is obvious fire damage to the roof. |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Damaged English Singer sports car on the street, E. Washington Avenue, with Brayton School in the background. |
| Date: | 08 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Doyon Lumber Co., following a warehouse fire, located at 638 West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 08 16 1932 |
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| Description: | People looking at the ruins of the Royal Airport hangar and office after a fire. Viewed from the southwest. |
| Date: | 10 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Behr residence, with a dotted line and an "x" showing where a child fell. |
| Date: | 03 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Flooding along University Avenue at Shorewood Boulevard in front of Frenchy's restaurant, 3302 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 29 1932 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Chandler B. and Frances Chapman home exterior, at 640 N. Carroll Street, from the northeast after the fire. Furniture is on ... |
| Date: | 06 10 1958 |
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| Description: | Police and spectators watch as firemen battle a blaze at Brandes Heating Co., 2046 Winnebago Street. |
| Date: | 06 17 1933 |
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| Description: | Onlookers stopping to look at the remnants of the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street, with a view o... |
| Date: | 09 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Otto Bosshard standing in the background watching motorcycle patrolman Calbert James Sparks and a spectator push his wrecked car off a safety island at the... |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated vie of the crowd gathering in Langdon Street to observe the fire at Ann Emery Hall, 263-71 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 03 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Flooding along University Avenue at Shorewood Boulevard. Businesses in the photograph include Frenchy's Restaurant, 3302 University Avenue, and the Walter ... |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 30 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Dane County Oil Company, 1854 South Park Street, following an explosion of an anti-freeze can which killed one person and injured five. |
| Date: | 12 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Onlookers are standing in the street as a fire burns at Quality Service Laundry, 1202 Regent Street, showing the corner of Regent and Charter Streets. |
| Date: | 10 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Ida Huff and William Aspinwall, Jr. answer a surprise alert phone call for a test of emergency services response while seated in an automobile. |
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