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Joe Fedele Receives Badge

Date: 10 17 1932
Description: Captain Leo Kinney, Captain of Detectives, pinning a detective's badge on Joe Fedele, member of Post's Junior Detective Club, an organization sponsored by ...
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New Police Ambulance

Date: 11 14 1934
Description: Two police officers are standing beside a new police ambulance parked in front of the Madison Police Station, 14-16 South Webster Street.
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Two Police Officers

Date: 04 21 1932
Description: Portrait of Police Officer Earl V. Bonner, the shortest man on the Madison police force, who joined in 1928, and Romain W. York Jr., the tallest man on the...
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Lillian Rice at Police Station

Date: 01 30 1931
Description: Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ...
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New Police Chief Candidate

Date: 09 30 1930
Description: New police chief candidate, William H. McCormick, sitting behind a desk.
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M. Pearl Guynes

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Miss M. Pearl Guynes, member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and recently appointed sergeant of the Madison Police Department, sitting at her...
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Father - Son Police Officers

Date: 03 02 1947
Description: Madison Police Officer, Rufus Haralson, and his son, Duane C. Haralson, a recently appointed police officer. They are the second father-son combination to ...
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Loraine Hotel Hold-up

Date: 11 24 1947
Description: Police officer Raymond P. Kurth holds the leather bag in which the robber, Max M. Feeney, carried the money stolen from the Loraine Hotel.
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Sheriff Herman P. Kerl

Date: 11 03 1948
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Dane County sheriff, Herman P. Kerl.
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Police Chief Interviewee; George London

Date: 12 03 1948
Description: Waist-up portrait of George A. London, Wichita, Kansas police officer, who was interviewed for the Madison Police Chief job.
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Fire at 15. S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Portrait of Dane County Traffic Officer Robert Waldron who was injured in fighting the fire at the tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street, where Flor...
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Mrs. Robert S. Lincoln Receives a Life Saving Award

Date: 07 12 1950
Description: Mrs. Robert S. Lincoln, 3118 Buena Vista Street, receives an award from police officer Lester Shore for her "heroine efforts" in saving 3-year-old Kurt Wis...
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County Traffic Officer John J. DeSmidt

Date: 06 07 1951
Description: Dane County traffic officer John J. DeSmidt posing in front of a police car.
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Portrait of Madison Police Officer

Date: 07 08 1952
Description: Portrait of a Madison police officer in uniform.
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Madison Police Boat

Date: 04 02 1954
Description: Sergeant Norman Ehle and Lt. Herman Thomas are crouching beneath a motor boat resting on a wood beam cradle at a boatyard. "The new 220-horsepower cruiser ...
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Police — Firemen Chief's Trophy

Date: 06 23 1954
Description: Madison Fire Chief Edward Page, left, and Police Chief Bruce Weatherly hold the new Chief's Trophy that will go to the winner of an upcoming police-fireman...
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Stoughton Police Chief Clifford Kriedeman

Date: 12 22 1959
Description: Portrait of Stoughton police chief Clifford Kriedeman. He was the police chief from 1955 until his death in 1979.
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Franklin Trostle

Date: 1930
Description: Madison Police Chief Frank Trostle. Trostle served as police chief from 1925-1930.
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Ralph O'Dell Murder Case — Detective Beckman

Date: 11 1957
Description: Portrait of Madison Detective Elroy Beckman, who was questioned during the murder trial of Ralph O'Dell, accused of shooting Joseph Knock during a burglary...
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Madison Police Chief

Date: 11 29 1958
Description: Portrait of Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly.

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