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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Police officer helping a young woman cross the street. |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Men receiving paychecks from armored trucks parked outdoors at an IH plant. Signs on the trucks read: "Department of Finance, City of New York." A police o... |
| Date: | 11 14 1934 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of police officers taken in front of the Madison Police Station at 14-16 South Webster Street. They are members of the Police School 1934-19... |
| Date: | 09 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Chief of Police William McCormick buying the first Forget-me-not from the Disabled American Veterans on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. Left to right: L... |
| Date: | 04 21 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View of a policeman standing in the street and directing traffic on State Street. Moving cars are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Policeman and another man (possibly Aldro Wasley) on Fair Oaks Avenue at scene of automobile accident. There is a University Floral Co. truck in background... |
| Date: | 05 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Four Dane County motor police officers shown with four Harley Davidson motorcycles, and two other men, taken in front of Madison Battery and Tire, 250 Stat... |
| Date: | 09 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Prisoner, Fred Deauchamp, age 29, accused robber of nurse's residence at Wisconsin General Hospital, and police officer standing outdoors. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A police officer stands in the middle of the street near street railroad tracks in the pavement as pedestrians cross. In the background on the street corne... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Ellen McCabe, 1954 Alice in Dairyland, enters State Fair Park in her official convertible, escorted by police officers on Harley-Davidson motorcycles ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ashland County Jail, Ashland, Wis." and "Conover & Porter, Architects." A young boy standing on the steps near the open door of the a... |
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| Description: | A formal portrait of police officers in front of a building. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two police officers, one on a motorcycle with sidecar on the corner of Mifflin and Carroll Street, on the Capitol Square. A large Santa Claus cutout is lo... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
| Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein (1906-1984) to the state crime lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Laboratory, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests. |
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