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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Shooting of Charles C.P. Arndt by James Vineyard in the territorial council chamber of the legislature. This depiction of the event was created by the staf... |
| Date: | 04 23 1948 |
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| Description: | African-American man, Norman M., Ward (aka Paul Nokomis) 18-year-old Chicagoan who was sent to jail to await sentence when he pleaded guilty to larceny and... |
| Date: | 11 1972 |
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| Description: | Polemical political poster advocating Karl Armstrong for District Attorney of Wisconsin. Text reads, "We will be free. We see the AMRC blast as more than j... |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 12 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Assistant District Attorney Robert I. Perina (left) hearing the confessions of Douglas R. Wright of Baraboo and William G. Lavine of St. Louis. The two rob... |
| Date: | 04 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Superior Judge Roy H. Procter reading police reports and them dismissing charges against 54 students charged with disorderly contact at a Langdon Street mo... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Georgia Russell, an accountant in the State Motor Vehicle Department, displaying the mail bag and bomb package that were involved in an unsuccessful a... |
| Date: | 03 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Front page of the "Wisconsin State Journal" on April 10, 1865 headlining Abraham Lincoln's assassination. |
| Date: | 12 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Diane Nelson, 20-year-old bookkeeper, is shown reviewing with her attorney, Maurice B. Pasch, the testimony she gave as the chief prosecution witness again... |
| Date: | 02 07 1961 |
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| Description: | Rev. Herbert Drachenberg, right, pastor of the Madison Silent Lutheran Church, 1909 Huxley St., uses sign language to relay a question from members of the ... |
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