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Milwaukee County Court House Marker

Date: 1900
Description: Plaque marking the site of the first Court House, first and second jails, and the first County Offices. Erected by Milwaukee County, the plaque has classi...
Photograph

Entrance to the City Jail

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Description: A view of the Juarez, Mexico city jail. Officers and other men stand in front of the structure, made of adobe. Brick arches trim the windows and doorway. O...
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Sid Sitting in Jail

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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, ...
Drawing

"It Teaches Them To Respect the Law"

Date: 01 1981
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...
Photograph

X-mas Tree at the Dane County Jail

Date: 12 20 1960
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...
Postcard

Door County Jail and Courthouse

Date: 1907
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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