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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: | 12 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Police arresting an Allis-Chalmers striker. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks. Includes the triple diamond logo at the top, and features a color illustration of a K-line truck with a cartoo... |
| Date: | 03 11 1940 |
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| Description: | Four Dane County Highway Police Ford squad cars, with one officer standing next to the cars. |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | Four Dane County Highway Police Ford squad cars with one officer standing next to each car. |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | Four Dane County Highway Police Ford squad cars, with one officer standing next to each car. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Armed officer stepping inside an International D-30 armored truck owned by Brinks, Inc. |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Automobiles and police officer on West Mifflin Street. Celebration of V-J Day August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japan... |
| 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: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Women are booked for prostitution by state agents at the Iron County jail after vice raids at Hurley-area taverns on a Tuesday night. |
| Date: | 02 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Demetral, Madison wrestler, throwing Officer Keith Ackley as part of a five-week course in ju-jitsu for 55 officers of the Madison Police Department. |
| Date: | 02 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Demetral, Madison wrestler, teaching Officer Robert O'Brien to do an "airplane spin" toss on Officer Keith Ackley. Fifty-five Madison Police Departme... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of the Sun Prairie Public Library with a police car parked in front of it. |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Miss M. Pearl Guynes, member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and recently appointed sergeant of the Madison Police Department, sitting at her... |
| Date: | 12 07 1946 |
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| Description: | During a march in support of the striking Local 75 of the United Automobile Workers, the police arrest one participant. |
| 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: | 04 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Officer Frank B. Ingraham, at his beat on the corners of State, Henry, and Johnson Streets, with young school children from Holy Redeemer School. Ingraham ... |
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | Police Sgt. Richard H. Rossmaessler is shown with various explosive devices that injured three boys in a quarry blast explosion. |
| Date: | 05 22 1945 |
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| Description: | Police Captain, J. Homer Elder, new Chief of Traffic, talking with a citizen at the Traffic Bureau window. |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray Groenier, chief radio technician for City of Madison Police Department, with two other men at a police radio. |
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