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| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 07 1913 |
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| Description: | Constable Rube J. Holcombe posing for a photograph while smoking a cigar. |
| Date: | 01 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Observing a poster stating: "Rain, Sleet, Snow, slow!," are Police Officer Walter Randall, with Edwin B. Petersen, winner of the "Wisconsin State Journal's... |
| Date: | 02 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Kenneth H. Sidwell , 17 North First Street, shown talking through the window of his car to Madison police officer Harold Nelson on his motorcycle. Mr. Sid... |
| 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: | 03 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Robert O'Brien, police officer on motorcycle, in front of Police Station. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received a death sentence in 1951, not long after Joseph R. McCarthy burst into the headlines with his charges a... |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Alleged killers after confessing to the murder of two people. Seated are Buford Sennett, Richland Center, and Robert Winslow, Owen, standing behind them i... |
| 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: | 02 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Angelo Mazzara, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, formerly of Madison. He has confessed to breaking into the Old Heidelberg Tavern, 1206 Regent Street, through ... |
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| Description: | Unidentified image of a young man in a suit and tie being escorted by a police officer into a court room. |
| 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: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Myles Horton watching as the local sheriff puts a padlock on Highlander Folk School, following a trial in which Highlander was accused of propagating Commu... |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster showing a Mississippi highway patrolman in a helmet stands with his arms crossed. Other people are visible... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Shorewood Hills marshalls Lee Cripps and Frank Ashworth measuring skid marks at an accident scene. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the arrest of Herbert "Chub" Fowler in the street in Guttenberg, Iowa. A crowd mills around to watch. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a sheriff arresting Herbert "Chub" Fowler. The sheriff, holding Fowler by the shoulder and carrying a billy club in the other hand, says, "Your ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Robert Warren, then the District Attorney of Brown County, tries out a breathalizer machine. With him are Glenn Cunningham and Ray Bayley, officers of th... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Police Chief Bruce Weatherly meeting with members of the National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs who were touring government offices while in Madis... |
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