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| Date: | 05 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Dane County traffic officers standing next to new Ford V8 automobiles and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. |
| Date: | 05 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Dane County traffic police officers on their new Harley-Davidson motorcycles. |
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| Description: | A formal portrait of police officers in front of a building. |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman greets a crowd from the back platform of a NorthWestern train at the Commercial Ave. crossing. Others with him from the left are... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Highway patrolman issue's ticket ot motorist. Photograph taken by a Milwaukee Journal photographer who was covering the day of the Wisconsin State H... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A Chicago police officer holds up his hand to signal pedestrians that they should not enter the crosswalk. |
| Date: | 12 07 1946 |
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| Description: | During a march in support of the striking Local 75 of the United Automobile Workers, the police arrest one participant. |
| 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: | Madison Police Officers (left to right): John Sweeney; Ervin Grahn; and George Cross; pictured at the Madison Police Station garage in front of a bank robb... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely". |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. |
| Date: | 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the... |
| Date: | 06 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Dane County traffic officer John J. DeSmidt posing in front of a police car. |
| Date: | 01 27 1975 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin National Guard arrest a group of Native Americans during the takeover of the Alexian Brother Novitiate near Gresham. The arrest wa... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | An unidentified member of the Wisconsin State Patrol points his revolver at several Native Americans at a vehicle checkpoint near Gresham. The State Patrol... |
| Date: | 04 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Norman Ehle and Lt. Herman Thomas are crouching beneath a motor boat resting on a wood beam cradle at a boatyard. "The new 220-horsepower cruiser ... |
| Date: | 04 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Two uniformed police officers are inspecting a new 14-foot boat with a 15-horsepower outboard motor resting on a boat trailer inside the police garage. In ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1954 |
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| Description: | James Quinn, witness of the events leading to the murder and suicide of Doris Russ and Guy Russ, talks to either police investigator John Henry or newspape... |
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