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| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, with confiscated whiffle board and roulette wheel. |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Governor Goodland conferring with District Attorney John Grindell and Sheriff Aloys Klaas about gambling in Grant County. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Sheriff Fred Simon and unidentified man in the process of destroying slot machines. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a woman as she was loaded into the agent's car after a raid at Rae's Blackhawk Bar. She is hiding her face in her coat. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | John W. Roach, Chief of the State Beverage Tax Division, (left) and Sheriff Sam Giovanoni, on right, snapped after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area esta... |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Scene in rural schoolyard as Sheriff Sam Giovanoni swore in 48 Beverage Tax Agents as Iron County Deputies on Tuesday night, just before a a sweeping raid ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A handout urging citizens to re-elect Republican candidate Michael Lombardi for Sheriff of Waukesha County. He was re-elected, and served the statutory lim... |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "Dane County sheriff's officials survey about $300 worth of auto parts and other merchandise recovered from members of a juven... |
| Date: | 02 24 1960 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison area law enforcement officers who attended an FBI conference on auto theft investigations. Seated, left to right: Circuit and Juv... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | State Assemblyman David Obey, Marathon County Sheriff Louis Gianali and Harvey Woodward looking at a map. Harvey Woodward was a veteran of law enforcement ... |
| Date: | 12 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Vernon Leslie, left, presenting an award to Richard Green, 1143 E. Dayton Street, for his part in the capture of Raymond Wyngaard, one of the FBI's... |
| Date: | 01 25 1960 |
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| Description: | An unidentified Dane County Sheriff Department employee training a police dog. The man and the dog are in a field, and a storage tank is near buildings in ... |
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