Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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Description: | Women are booked for prostitution by state agents at the Iron County jail after vice raids at Hurley-area taverns on a Tuesday night. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | The Dane County Jail. To the right is the sheriff's residence. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | The Dane County Courthouse, 207 West Main Street, and Dane County Jail, 219 West Main Street. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | A roughly built jail, constructed before 1836. Vineyard would have been held here a short time before he was released on bail. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Reportedly the first jail to be built in Wisconsin, this jail was built somewhere between 1830 and 1835 from hewn logs. Iowa County was organized within th... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the county jail in Sturgeon Bay. Caption reads: "New County Jail, Sturgeon Bay, Wis." |
Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) and a police officer wait at the counter at the State Crime Lab where he was brought for lie detector and other tests or at the city ja... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Native American man, possibly John Swallow, smoking a pipe near a barred window, possibly a jail, except the window has panes and curtains, and at his feet... |
Date: | 10 1910 |
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Description: | Copy photograph of a man posing sitting in jail, probably John Deitz in Hayward. He appears to have a cast or bandage on his left hand. A young girl is sta... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Stereograph of the Columbia County Jail. People are on the sidewalk near the entrance. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View across lawn towards the Price County Jail. Caption reads: "Price County Jail Phillips, Wis." |
Date: | 12 02 1945 |
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Description: | Dane County Sheriff John R. Arnold examining the door frame of a cell in the Dane County Jail. Prisoners had attempted to pry open the door in an unsuccess... |
Date: | 02 24 1947 |
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Description: | Dressed in a flash suit purchased with part of his bank loot, Loyd D. Robertson, 26, of Tomah, confessed robber of the Loganville State bank, attempted to ... |
Date: | 11 12 1947 |
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Description: | Ernest F. Burmeister, Dane County's "boy" sheriff from 1901-1903 and deputy and turnkey in 1891, is shown holding the keys to the old Dane County jail and ... |
Date: | 04 23 1948 |
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Description: | African-American man, Norman M., Ward (aka Paul Nokomis) 18-year-old Chicagoan who was sent to jail to await sentence when he pleaded guilty to larceny and... |
Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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Description: | Public officials inspecting the damage and debris from a fatal fire in the Dane County Jail. The fire was started by two inmates, one of whom died in the e... |
Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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Description: | Floyd Parker, a federal prisoner, and one of two inmates of the Dane County Jail who started the cell block fire, was rescued by sheriff's officials and ci... |
Date: | 06 01 1948 |
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Description: | Interior view of women's cell in Dane County jail, showing unfit conditions. |
Date: | 06 01 1948 |
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Description: | Dane County Jail woman's bathroom, with bathtub and toilet, showing unfit conditions. |
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