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Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Judge Joseph R. McCarthy sitting at the bench at the Outagamie Courthouse. This photograph was featured in McCarthy's U.S. Senate campaign literature in 19... |
Date: | 04 01 1915 |
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Description: | Northwest corner of 3rd and Wells Street, facing the Milwaukee Commercial School. A police officer directs traffic in the foreground, with pedestrians on t... |
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Description: | Metropolitan building and the Streissguth clothing and shoe company at the northeast corner of N. 3rd and W. State Streets. Police officers are standing on... |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Members of the American Nazi Party demonstrating in behalf of the House Un-American Activities Committee against liberal attempts to abolish the committee.... |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received a death sentence in 1951, not long after Joseph R. McCarthy burst into the headlines with his charges a... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Campaign poster for Joseph R. McCarthy's campaign for circuit judge. McCarthy was considered an underdog in this race, but he campaigned successfully by dr... |
Date: | 07 24 1947 |
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Description: | Dane County Judge Fred Evans inspecting Pierre Slightam's racer, the Doodlebug, in his role as chief judge for the Derby. A dog is standing nearby. |
Date: | 08 07 1947 |
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Description: | Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground. |
Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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Description: | Alleged killers after confessing to the murder of two people. Seated are Buford Sennett, Richland Center, and Robert Winslow, Owen, standing behind them i... |
Date: | 11 12 1947 |
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Description: | Ernest F. Burmeister, Dane County's "boy" sheriff from 1901-1903 and deputy and turnkey in 1891, is shown holding the keys to the old Dane County jail and ... |
Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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Description: | Buford Sennett, confessed murderer, soon after his capture at the Pomputis farm, sitting between a police officer and the driver of the car. |
Date: | 11 24 1947 |
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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. |
Date: | 05 20 1951 |
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Description: | General Douglas MacArthur rides in an open car during the ticker tape parade in his honor. MacArthur had just returned to the United States, having been re... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A businessman, dressed in a suit coat and hat looks up while standing near two police officers. Behind them is a crowd of pedestrians on a street. |
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Description: | A street scene with pedestrians and police officer on a windy day in downtown Milwaukee. |
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Description: | A police officer sitting on a stool in a woodshop. |
Date: | 01 12 1948 |
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Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. Seated left to right are: Chester A. Fowler; Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry; and Oscar M. Fritz. ... |
Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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Description: | A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by... |
Date: | 02 17 1948 |
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Description: | Angelo Mazzara, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, formerly of Madison. He has confessed to breaking into the Old Heidelberg Tavern, 1206 Regent Street, through ... |
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