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Filter: Creator Name of McVicar, Angus B., 1903-1964
| Date: | 11 28 1936 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John (Jack) Albright, former owner of the Club Monterey and one-time king of Madison gamblers, in jail, charged with keeping a gambling house, ... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
| Date: | 07 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cecil LaValla, sitting in a chair at the county jail, suspect in the murder of Odin Tofsrud. |
| Date: | 07 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Martha Finn, jail matron and wife of Sheriff Fred T. Finn, sitting at a table, reading a newspaper. Her duties consist of cooking for all the j... |
| Date: | 10 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Gladys Heacock, escapee from Indiana State School for Girls, who pleaded guilty to stealing a State car, and another woman sitting in the Dane County jail. |
| Date: | 02 23 1931 |
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| Description: | View of a hen, a barred Plymouth Rock, found jaywalking on University Avenue, in the city jail. |
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