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Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He...
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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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Jesse Smith at the Police Desk

Date: 10 12 1931
Description: Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department.
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Patrolman Peterson

Date: 06 08 1930
Description: Patrolman Peterson in uniform, sitting at a telephone table.
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Three Men With Police Radio

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Ray Groenier, chief radio technician for City of Madison Police Department, with two other men at a police radio.
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Police First Aid Training

Date: 11 16 1945
Description: Dane County traffic police receiving first aid training. Officer Rodney Burgenske is performing artificial respiration on Lieut. A.C. Pope while Capt. O.F....
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Police Officer Robert O'Brien With Wooden Guns

Date: 03 08 1947
Description: Police Officer Robert O'Brien showing guns he carved.
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Dane County Traffic Police

Date: 05 13 1948
Description: Four Dane County traffic police pictured in their new navy blue and grey uniforms. Left to right, Officers Charles O'Brien, Don Harless, Emil Schmale, and ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winners

Date: 07 24 1948
Description: At right is Don Harless, Dane County traffic officer, presenting carry-all bags to winners of the sportsmanship award to Albert Martin, son of Mrs. Annabel...
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Children Line Up for Free Movie

Date: 08 27 1948
Description: Children lined up on sidewalk in front of L. Wieman Co. Store, 205-07 State Street, to attend a free back-to-school movie party at the Capitol Theatre. In ...
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A.W. Bareis, George Forster and Bruce Weatherly

Date: 12 28 1948
Description: City Clerk Alfred W. Bareis swears in police chief Bruce Weatherly in front of WKOW and WIBA microphones. George Forster, city finance director and acting...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winners

Date: 07 24 1949
Description: Madison Soap Box Derby Sportsmanship Award winners with County Traffic Officer, Charles O'Brien, presenting awards to Dickie Wold of LaFarge and Frank Bryl...
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Traffic Officer Hector Naze with Second Grader Freddy Milverstedt

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: Traffic officer Hector Naze, who directs morning traffic at the corner of Johnson and State Streets, is shown explaining the crossing rules to seven-year o...
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Badger Fans at Airport

Date: 11 18 1950
Description: Part of a crowd of 150 waiting at the fence at the Truax airport terminal as the Badger football team's chartered airplane returns at 8:20 PM after losing ...
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New Cash Register for the Police Department

Date: 07 03 1952
Description: Police officer Roy Holtzman giving Paul and Mark Hoover their new bicycle licenses. He is sitting at the first cash register to be used by the police depar...
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Police Station

Date: 1900
Description: A man walks by the Madison police station, a two-story brick building with corner turret on the corner of South Webster Street. The fire station was across...
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Fire at Kindschi Leather Company

Date: 12 07 1958
Description: A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building...
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Juvenile Delinquency Addressed

Date: 05 25 1965
Description: Angelo Gonzalez, a former New York City street gang leader, presented a plan to end juvenile delinquency to Madison police officers, judges, and probation ...
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State Street Bust

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Description: View across street towards a police officer chasing down a shoplifter walking on State Street. A man is watching from a sidewalk in the background.
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State Street Bust 02

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Description: A police officer apprehending a shoplifter on the sidewalk along State Street.

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