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| Date: | 05 11 1914 |
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| Description: | People observe the ruins of the Dreher farm. |
| 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: | 05 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Three people observe the ruins of the barn that was hit by a tornado on the Bartlett Farm. |
| Date: | 06 12 1915 |
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| Description: | People standing among the broken remains of the Tim Finley farm after a killer tornado. A woman in the center is standing on a mattress. Two people were ki... |
| Date: | 06 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Burned out automobile interior, with people looking on, where Enos Williams died. |
| 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: | 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: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A man fueling a fire for a fish boil, as people look on. |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving showing people attempting to locate loved ones among the bodies recovered from the Newhall House fire. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
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| Description: | Debris of wood and board scattered around a field, probably due to a tornado. Group of people in the distance on the left side of the image. |
| Date: | 08 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Ruins from fire. There are railroad tracks in the foreground, and people standing and looking at the damage. |
| Date: | 03 14 1929 |
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| Description: | People gather to look over the remains of Natalie Troia's store at 102 South Park Street, after it exploded. |
| Date: | 03 15 1866 |
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| Description: | People gather the morning after a fire that destroyed Dixon's store as well as $100,000 worth of goods and eleven other places of business. The flames were... |
| Date: | 07 1899 |
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| Description: | People stand among the rubble of Ward S. Williams Co.'s stone block building after a tornado. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of fire fighters on the side of a building and standing on the ground lifting people out of a building. |
| 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... |
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