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Dane County Highway Police

Date: 05 28 1948
Description: By 1934 the Dane County Highway Police staff had increased to four officers, was boosted to nine in 1937, and in three years to fifteen. The officers shown...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 05 28 1948
Description: Dane County traffic police with Jimmy Christensen pointing to his plans for a soap box racer. The traffic police are sponsoring Jimmy in the Soap Box Derby...
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Little Rock Integration Crisis

Date: 09 1957
Description: Mob violence during the integration crisis in Little Rock. Probably taken between September 20th, when Governor Faubus withdrew the National Guard and Sept...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winners

Date: 07 24 1948
Description: At right is Don Harless, Dane County traffic officer, presenting carry-all bags to winners of the sportsmanship award to Albert Martin, son of Mrs. Annabel...
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Crashed Automobile

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Crashed automobile on tow truck, with traffic officer, Russell Klitzman, and deputy sheriff, Eldon Johnson, viewing the car.
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Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show

Date: 08 04 1948
Description: Five clowns and two police officers, with Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin on a stretcher, at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Steve...
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Dane County Delegation to the Centennial Exposition

Date: 08 18 1948
Description: The delegation of state, county, city, university, and business officials is shown as the caravan is about to leave from the Dane County Courthouse, 207 We...
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Children Line Up for Free Movie

Date: 08 27 1948
Description: Children lined up on sidewalk in front of L. Wieman Co. Store, 205-07 State Street, to attend a free back-to-school movie party at the Capitol Theatre. In ...
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Mothers Against the War

Date: 1966
Description: Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.
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Stop the War

Date: 10 15 1965
Description: Opponents of the War in Vietnam protesting at Truax Air Force Base. This event, which was probably sponsored by local members of the National Coordinating...
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Suburban Police Officers

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Maple Bluff police officer A.J. Taft, with Lakewood School children with their bicycles.
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Suburban Police Officers

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Blooming Grove constables Albert Frazer and Jerry Fries, put a man on a stretcher in the back of a police car modified to serve as ambulance.
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Suburban Police Officers

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Town of Madison constable John Rieder, and "Bonnie," his 2-year-old Pomeranian dog, leaning out of squad car during patrol of the town.
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Suburban Police Officers

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Monona Marshal Rollin Boden, directing traffic.
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W.E.B. DuBois Club Bombing

Date: 03 06 1966
Description: National headquarters of the W.E.B. DuBois Club in San Francisco after it was bombed.
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Anti-War Protest

Date: 08 1966
Description: Anti-Vietnam War protestors being dragged onto federal property by police at the Naval Weapons Station.
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Andrew Wade House Bombing

Date: 06 27 1954
Description: Police officer inspecting the damage to the home of Andrew Wade and his family after it was bombed.
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Greensboro Massacre Response

Date: 02 02 1980
Description: Protest march called in response to the murder of five activists, labor organizers, and members of the Communists Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) o...
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Women and Girls in front of Church

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Description: A group of women and girls wearing white dresses and waving American flags are standing at the curb in front of a church. Three police officers are standin...
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Fire at 15. S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Portrait of Dane County Traffic Officer Robert Waldron who was injured in fighting the fire at the tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street, where Flor...

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