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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Bow of the sidewheel packet, "Quincy," sunk in 1906. People are standing on temporary pier beside her. Later raised and renamed the "J.S." |
| Date: | 12 20 1879 |
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| Description: | Engraved image of a man falling off of a high-wheel bicycle. Two people in the background are watching the accident. |
| Date: | 01 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two people breaking ice with an ax and an ice breaking pole [a gaff?]; other people in the background are standing in a boat pushing poles... |
| Date: | 08 22 1910 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people is posing near a haystack surrounded by debris. Caption reads: "Wreck at Mrs. Biederwolf, Fredonia, Wis." |
| 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 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Page from an International Harvester calendar promoting safety using themes from World War I. The title of calendar is "The World's Greatest Chance Taker! ... |
| Date: | 08 03 1934 |
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| 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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| Description: | View looking uphill towards a wrecked automobile resting in a ditch off the road. Probably due to an accident. People are standing near the top of the hill... |
| Date: | 11 28 1932 |
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| Description: | Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a... |
| Date: | 07 28 1959 |
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| Description: | An Illinois couple, unaware of Madison's pedestrian safety laws, were seriously injured by a car while jaywalking across East Washington Avenue. Police and... |
| Date: | 07 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Susan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Summers, standing indoors next to the window that was smashed by an old willow tree that split and crashed into ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon depicts a man riding a tractor (with a "no riders" sign) with one hand on the tracto... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children and adults on porch steps. On the left a woman is sitting in a chair with an infant on her lap and an American Flag behind her. ... |
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| Description: | Group portrait on the porch steps. On the left a woman is sitting in a chair with an infant on her lap and an American Flag behind her. On the right are th... |
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