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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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FDR in Milwaukee

Date: 10 01 1932
Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee in 1932. FDR is riding in a flag-draped open car and escorted by police on motorcycles.
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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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Sheriff Herman P. Kerl

Date: 11 03 1948
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Dane County sheriff, Herman P. Kerl.
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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...
Book or Pamphlet

Police Officer

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of a stern-looking, uniformed police officer with arms crossed.
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Police Chief Interviewee; George London

Date: 12 03 1948
Description: Waist-up portrait of George A. London, Wichita, Kansas police officer, who was interviewed for the Madison Police Chief job.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Police Officer Robert O'Neil looking at charred doll and little red boots found in the debris in the room in a tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street...
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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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Truax Barracks Fire

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Police officers Robert O'Neil (left) and Frank Eisele standing next to the charred crib from which infant Walter Alburn, Jr. was rescued by neighbors in th...

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