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Police Strategy Session

Date: 11 21 1956
Description: Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes.
Manuscript

The Magic Picnic

Date: 1979
Description: Map for location of the Magic Picnic, a celebration of the lesbian and gay community, which took place in Brittingham Park.
Manuscript

Gay Center Picnic

Date: 1979
Description: Poster for picnic presented by the Gay Center at Vilas Park. Includes an image of a fox and telephone.
Photograph

Belgian Criminal Investigator

Date: 10 03 1950
Description: Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly (left) explains how Madison police fight crimes to visiting internationally-famous Belgian criminal investigator Flour...
Photograph

Crime Prevention Week Declaration

Date: 02 15 1952
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...
Photograph

Madison Business Protective Association Officials

Date: 12 08 1958
Description: The newly-formed Madison Business Protective Association, some in uniform and some plainclothed, will move about through commercial areas to check on poten...
Document

Surveyor's Note, Village of Dunbarton

Date: 1882
Description: Note from Albert Pool, surveyor for the village of Dunbarton in Lafayette County, as appears on the reverse of the Village of Dunbarton plat map. Pool cert...
Photograph

Obey and Law Enforcement

Date: 1963
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 ...
Map or Atlas

A New and Accurate Map of Virginia Wherein Most of the Counties are Laid Down from Actual Surveys: With a Concise Account of the Number of Inhabitants, the Trade, Soil, and Produce of that Province

Date: 1770
Description: The south west sheet of a four sheet map of Virginia, showing the counties, mountains, rivers, court houses, a few cities, and mills. A few Plantations ar...
Map or Atlas

Connecticut, from the Best Authorities

Date: 1795
Description: Map of Connecticut showing counties, townships, cities, roads, islands, swamps, hills, mountains, lakes, rivers, reefs, and numerous other geographical and...

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