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| Date: | 07 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Martha Finn, jail matron and wife of Sheriff Fred T. Finn, sitting at a table, reading a newspaper. Her duties consist of cooking for all the j... |
| Date: | 10 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 13 superintendents of state welfare institutions with A.W. Bayley (extreme right, standing), director of the Wisconsin Deptartment of Pub... |
| Date: | 12 02 1945 |
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| Description: | June Dieckman, police reporter for the "Wisconsin State Journal," shown examining a hole in a ventilating pipe cut by two federal prisoners attempting to e... |
| Date: | 08 25 1950 |
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| Description: | A telephone in the cell block at the Madison police headquarters, adjacent to the fingerprinting counters, explicitly for use by arrested persons. The pict... |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | The defendant, Ralph O'Dell, is shown holding his 17-month-old son Timmie and saying goodbye, after receiving a life sentence for killing Joseph Knock duri... |
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