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| 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: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman getting out of a car outside the Field House, trailer housing in the background. He came for a 5 1/2 hour visit, gave a "peace" a... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 03 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild, right, former Wisconsin Attorney General, is sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. D.M. Alsad, Clerk of ... |
| Date: | 06 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Dane County traffic officer John J. DeSmidt posing in front of a police car. |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | State patrol officers line up beside their patrol cars at Old District 1 State Patrol Field Headquarters on Highway 12. They appear to be receiving instruc... |
| 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... |
| 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 16 1958 |
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| Description: | The original caption states, "Edward Krueger, center, is shown as he was sentenced by Circuit Judge Richard Bardwell to five years in Green Bay state refor... |
| 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: | 12 08 1958 |
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| Description: | The newly-formed Madison Business Protective Association, some in uniform and some plainclothed, will move about through commercial areas to check on poten... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Two actors (standing), Bill Stedman and Bill Streeter, portray rebellious troubled teens named Butch and Red, who are appearing in court in front of Judge ... |
| Date: | 05 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Conservation Warden Albert Koppenhaver gives a talking-to to a youthful game law violator for shooting a pheasant out of season. |
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