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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Street intersection with a crowd and police. Tear gas is spreading across the road. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Four police officers on horses watch picketers cross a street. |
| Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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| Description: | New police chief candidate, William H. McCormick, sitting behind a desk. |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | A photograph of a painting depicting the bomb exploding at police as they approach the wagon to tell the crowd to disperse from Haymarket Square. Shrapnel ... |
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| Description: | Indian Court, with interpreter Charlie Pitt; police captain Antwine Pepins, Judge Thomas Palmer; Chief Judge Albert Kuckup (captor of Captain Jack, Madoc C... |
| Date: | 12 28 1948 |
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| Description: | City Clerk Alfred W. Bareis swears in police chief Bruce Weatherly. Alfred W. Bareis was mayor from 1955-1956. |
| 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: | 12 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Klansmen of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing conic masks and white robes gather in front of St. James Lutheran Church, Verona, for the funeral of Herbert C. ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
| Date: | 05 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Official representatives at the funeral of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy included (third from the police officer) Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of the American Nazi Party demonstrating in behalf of the House Un-American Activities Committee against liberal attempts to abolish the committee.... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union on March 29, 1951, and sentenced to death. The climate surrounding their trial wa... |
| Date: | 06 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Tensions ran high among the crowd that gathered outside the Brooklyn building where the funeral service for executed Russian spies Julius and Ethel Rosenbe... |
| Date: | 05 20 1951 |
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| Description: | General Douglas MacArthur rides in an open car during the ticker tape parade in his honor. MacArthur had just returned to the United States, having been re... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Police direct traffic through "Entrance A" at the Ohio State Fair while pedestrians walk nearby. Woman in uniforms sell concessions outside the entrance. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | View of the doors of the back of a police vehicle. An American flag sticker is visible in the window. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle... |
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