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Women Booked For Prostitution

Date: 08 05 1942
Description: Women are booked for prostitution by state agents at the Iron County jail after vice raids at Hurley-area taverns on a Tuesday night.
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Marines Running with Trucks

Date: 1941
Description: Marines running to climb aboard a truck after coupling a 75-mm gun.
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Illegal Gambling Machines

Date: 06 13 1942
Description: Three illegal gambling machines in the Dell View hotel.
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Men Involved in Vice Raid

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: A group of men involved in a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The face of the arresting officer has been blacked out. The arrest warrants ...
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Man Seized in Vice Raid

Date: 07 04 1942
Description: State Agent (left, with face blacked out to prevent future identification) as he seized the operator of the roulette table at the Ritz Bar after a sweeping...
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Eugene Pallette and Norma Talmadge in "Going Straight"

Date: 1916
Description: The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) menaces Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in her bedroom in this scene still from the silent feature fi...
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Norma Talmadge and Eugene Pallette in "Going Straight"

Date: 1916
Description: The robber Jimmy Briggs (played by Eugene Pallette) is stifling the cries of Grace Remington (Norma Talmadege) in this scene still from the silent feature ...
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1935 Buick Armored Car and Armed Officers

Date: 1935
Description: Four uniformed police officers holding guns are posing alongside a car, with two other men. A brick building behind them has a sign on the window that read...
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Scene from "A Dixie Mother"

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Description: A scene from the 1910 film "A Dixie Mother" shows a woman (Florence Turner) holding a sword and looking at her son played by Carlyle Blackwell. He is wear...

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