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New Police Chief Candidate

Date: 09 30 1930
Description: New police chief candidate, William H. McCormick, sitting behind a desk.
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Ed Gein Escorted to State Crime Lab

Date: 11 17 1957
Description: Ed Gein (1906-1984) is escorted by three law enforcement officers to the State Crime Laboratory, 917 University Avenue for lie detector and other tests.
Photograph

Meinhardt Raabe as Little Oscar with Wienermobile

Date: 07 01 1955
Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, receiving the key to the city of Wisconsin Dells, while standing in front of the Wienermobile. Written on the key...
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Lieut. Walter Thompson Recieving Kemper Foundation Award

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Lieut. Walter Thompson, an officer with the Madison police force, receiving the $650 Kemper Foundation fellowship check to attend the traffic police admini...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a...
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Putting Goodrich Tire Sticker On Police Car

Date: 06 11 1956
Description: Two men look on as a third man crouches to apply a Goodrich Tire sticker to the back of a (Ford) police car. One of the men looking on is wearing a police ...
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Police Recruits

Date: 10 22 1958
Description: Nineteen new police recruits are shown sitting in class. The men who are in pre-service training began classes September 16 and will graduate in January.
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Warming Up for Judo

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Description: A police student helps another student warm up for judo instruction at the YMCA as another man supervises.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

President John F. Kennedy

Date: 11 22 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Dallas: President John F. Kennedy is shown in motorcade as it moved toward the downtown area. In cente...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald

Date: 11 24 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Dallas: This is the complete negative of the dramatic scene captured by Times Herald Staff Photographe...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Murder Weapon

Date: 11 23 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "A Dallas Policeman holds the murder weapon used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy high over his...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Heavy Guard

Date: 11 23 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "A heavy guard stands in front of door guarding Lee Harvey Oswald, who has been charged in the assassin...
Print

Henry Chapman Baker

Date: 1900
Description: Quarter-length engraving of Henry Baker in profile. Baker was police chief of Madison from 1897-1907.
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1924
Description: Presidential campaign photo of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. standing up in the back of a convertible automobile with an American flag behind him. Two signs i...
Photograph

Imperial Apartments, 3803 Monona Drive, Damaged by Fire

Date: 10 12 1964
Description: Close to $40,000 in damage caused by a workman's torch occurred at the newly constructed Imperial Apartments located at 3803 Monona Drive, Monona, adjacen...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Greeting Woman

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a coat and fur scarf, is shaking the hand of Golda Meier. There are other unidentified men surrounding the two. In the background is ...
Photograph

Fire in the Wisconsin Building

Date: 01 13 1914
Description: A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com...
Photograph

She Digs In

Date: 10 11 1967
Description: Caption on reverse of wire photo: "She Digs In--An unidentified anti-war protester with designs painted on her face and carrying sign, "Sifting and Winnowi...
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Playful illustration art depicting a policeman in uniform with cap, hand raised to stop traffic, while blowing a whistle. Two boys wearing shirts, neckties...
Photograph

City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly assists his wife, Inez, in the serving line at the city officials and staff picnic hosted at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's summer h...

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