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Schott Saddlery, northwest corner of 3rd & Hampshire Sts. Exterior photo taken after the fire, horses pulling wagon load of rubble, men looking on. B/w, 7 5/8" x 10".

A Bloomington, Illinois Pantagraph newspaper article reports that a fire completely destroyed the Towanda Grain Company Co-op at dawn on October 14, 1951. Firemen from Lexington, Bloomington and Norma…

Domestic/Community/Social Life; Morris Tick Co. fire, 501 E. Stewart, Bloomington, Illinois

The State National Bank was incorporated 1878. At the time of the 1900 fire, Jacob Funk served as President. Located at 201 North Main, this building sustained $2,000 in damages (1899 City Directory;…

by Ex-Fire Chief Warden. Caption title. Illustrated paper cover in colors. Printed in double columns. "February 28, 1923"--Cover. "Stories of adventure"--Cover. "They were burning in a dozen places. "…

Education; Government/Politics/Law; Fire at Fell Hall on ISNU campus, 1943

Domestic/Community/Social Life; Government/Politics/Law; Lang Fuller fire, taken from high above street, showing smoke, trucks and crowd, 1938

Domestic/Community/Social Life; Field fire at R.M. Parker farm, 1939

Photograph of the fire at the Blameuser Building on Oakton Street on November 25, 1940, just a little more than a week after Niles Center, Illinois was renamed Skokie, Illinois. Shown: unidentified wo…

Domestic/Community/Social Life; Kammerer concrete factory destroyed, El Paso, Illinois, 1937

This photograph was taken during the Mickelberry Food Company fire in Chicago on February 7, 1968. The image was later annotated by Chicago firefighters to indicate specific details about firefighting…

Domestic/Community/Social Life; Government/Politics/Law; Lang Fuller fire, street obscured by smoke, 1938

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Disasters; Hiram Walker Distillery fire, 1935

On July 4, 1993, the Hinsdale Fire Department updated their official logbook with an entry for February 17, 1946, describing the line of duty death of Firefighter Walter Fleming.