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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the County Jail surrounded by a lawn. A sidewalk leads to wide stone steps that rise up to an arched entrance... |
| Date: | 07 31 1959 |
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| Description: | Four suspects in the "burglary" at Hi-Lo Market, 2038 Jenifer Street, include (left to right) Bill Faust ("The Slasher"), Ed Matush ("Melon Head"), Jack La... |
| Date: | 11 24 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Dallas: This is the complete negative of the dramatic scene captured by Times Herald Staff Photographe... |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a brick building. There are two men posing standing near the corner of the building on the right. The structure is ... |
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| Description: | View towards trees and buildings lining a snow-covered city street. Location identified as Third Street in Black River Falls, the Jackson County Courthouse... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Jailer Max Koons pointing to the hastily-repaired ceiling in the lobby of the Dane County Jail which two inmates tried to claw open during an attempted esc... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Undersheriff Jack Leslie examining the cell lock which Lawrence Nutley managed to thwart in an attempted escape from the Dane County Jail. Nutley and Willi... |
| Date: | 12 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Jailer Ralph Chesemore examining the control room buttons that were pushed to unlock a series of doors leading to the Dane County Jail lobby in an unsucces... |
| Date: | 02 25 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of teens are shown inside the county jail surrounded by men in suits and ties, as they listen to Undersheriff Franz Haas (right) explain the jail's... |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of Sid sitting in jail with a cigar in his mouth while reading a Gideon Bible. Sid is looking out of the iron gate of a stone building, ... |
| Date: | 01 1981 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon showing a nude man chained to a jail cell door bearing a sign that reads "Jailing of Children." There are two rats in the foreground, wit... |
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| Description: | View from street towards the county jail (and likely the county courthouse) surrounded by a fence. Caption reads: "County Jail, Hayward, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of the courthouse with a clock tower above the entrance. Saplings are on the lawn. Caption reads: "Court House and Jail, Jefferson, Wis." |
| Date: | 12 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Deputies decorated a Christmas tree in the Dane County jail chapel and jail matron Anne Frazier played the chapel organ for prisoners meditating in the cha... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Richland Co. Jail, Richland Center, Wis." A large, ornate, brick and stone building surrounded by lawns and sidewalks. There is a tow... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Door Co. Jail and Courthouse. Sturgeon Bay, Wis." The second courthouse built in 1878 of brick in the Italianate style. There is a w... |
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