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| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra... |
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| Description: | One man armed with a shotgun, facing a man in the doorway of a log house, and surrounded by four other men standing in the snow, also a horse and sleigh. |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man posed standing outdoors, holding a feathered spear and wearing a large bonnet. He is standing next to a hors... |
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| Description: | A view of members of the Yaqui tribe after the execution of six men in Guaymas Mexico. Caption reads: "Yaquis after the execution, Guaymas, Mexico." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The actress Nell Craig holds a revolver on Ernest Maupain while Richard Travers looks on in a scene still from the 1916 Essanay film "In a Looking Glass." |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
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| Description: | Waukesha police recruits practice using riot sticks. |
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| Description: | Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of two men fighting in the street with knives. They are both wearing hats and suits. |
| Date: | 02 06 1964 |
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| Description: | Deputy Sheriff Russell Chesemore shows some of the rubber hoses, a switchblade knife, and a bat-club confiscated from Madison West and Verona High School s... |
| Date: | 09 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal staff reporter, June Dieckmann seated at a desk. Behind her on the wall is a poster saying "Them Cards is Dead." The poster ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Two police detectives or officers, one handling hacksaw blades and the other inspecting rope, investigating a possible burglary using these items. They are... |
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| Description: | A uniformed officer standing and posing with one leg on the running board of an automobile parked near a sign that reads: "Maple Bluff." He is wearing a Tr... |
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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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