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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of La Crosse

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of La Crosse with nine insets of residences, schools, and the Court House and Jail.
Map or Atlas

View of the City of Waupun, Wis., Situated in Fond du Lac & Dodge Counties.

Date: 1885
Description: Bird's-eye map of Waupun on the Rock River. There is an inset at top center of "Althouse, Wheeler & Co., Windmills and Pumps."
Photograph

Dane County Highway Police Squad Cars

Date: 03 11 1940
Description: Four Dane County Highway Police Ford squad cars, with one officer standing next to the cars.
Photograph

Dane County Highway Police Squad Cars

Date: 03 19 1940
Description: Four Dane County Highway Police Ford squad cars, with one officer standing next to each car.
Postcard

Iron County Court House

Date: 1905
Description: View across road toward the court house. Caption reads: "Court House, Hurley, Wis."
Photograph

State Prison

Date: 1865
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Prison.
Photograph

Highway Patrolman's Day

Date: 1961
Description: Photograph taken through the broken windshield of a Wisconsin State highway patrol car. The patrolmen are at the scene of an automobile accident somewhere ...
Photograph

Directing Traffic

Date: 1939
Description: A Chicago police officer holds up his hand to signal pedestrians that they should not enter the crosswalk.
Photograph

Dead Deer on the Highway

Date: 1968
Description: A Wisconsin game warden removes a dead deer in the snow that had been struck by a vehicle from a rural Vernon County highway next to a deer crossing sign.
Photograph

Worker Harassment

Date: 06 1955
Description: Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai...
Photograph

Airplane Wreck

Date: 02 21 1947
Description: After hooking a wing into a huge tree, an airplane piloted by Carl Anderson crashed onto a town road in Fitchburg near the Sam McGaw farm. The impact tore ...
Photograph

Metropolitan Building

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Description: Metropolitan building and the Streissguth clothing and shoe company at the northeast corner of N. 3rd and W. State Streets. Police officers are standing on...
Photograph

Fond du Lac Avenue

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Description: Police officer directing traffic on a busy intersection. Walgreen Drugs is on one corner, Standard Service and Six Point beer garden on the opposite corner...
Photograph

Two Police Officers with Businessman

Date: 1905
Description: A businessman, dressed in a suit coat and hat looks up while standing near two police officers. Behind them is a crowd of pedestrians on a street.
Photograph

Accident at Park and Regent Streets

Date: 05 24 1948
Description: A police ambulance, speeding a 3-year old, David King, seriously injured accident victim to a hospital, crashed into a Padgham Painting Co. truck, driven b...
Postcard

Armory, Police Station, and County Jail on Broadway Street

Date: 
Description: View also includes two trees and a horse-drawn carriage. Caption reads: "Broadway Armory, Police Station and County Jail, Milwaukee."
Photograph

Chain Gang On a Highway

Date: 
Description: View of a chain gang from the front window of a car.
Postcard

Milwaukee County Court House

Date: 1905
Description: Color image of courthouse with a large tree and park on the left. View taken at an angle to the building from across the street. Horse-drawn carriages are ...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

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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