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: | 03 26 1968 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates. |
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Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
Date: | 07 11 1933 |
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Description: | Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Waupun Prison garden. Hill top view of garden with arched trellis and vines and men hoeing in garden; prison in background. |
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 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. |
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Description: | A police officer sitting on a stool in a woodshop. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
Date: | 02 08 1949 |
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Description: | Miss Gladys S. Stillman, judge of the "Wisconsin State Journal's" dessert recipe contest, exhibiting utensils used in baking nationality dishes. Also in th... |
Date: | 02 19 1949 |
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Description: | Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the... |
Date: | 10 01 1958 |
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Description: | Milwaukee County Stadium on the day of the first game of the 1958 World Series, between the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees. A man is being lower... |
Date: | 10 01 1958 |
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Description: | Milwaukee County Stadium on the day of the first game of the 1958 World Series, between the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees. Fire fighters and po... |
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Description: | Sheriff Fred Simon and unidentified man in the process of destroying slot machines. |
Date: | 01 12 1952 |
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Description: | Carol Jean Brown, the six-year-old daughter of Donald and Eugenia Brown, 2917 Monroe Street, fell through the ice on the Lake Wingra lagoon near Arbor Driv... |
Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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Description: | A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com... |
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Description: | View across street towards Sid standing on the back of a fire engine with a cigar in his mouth. A police officer wearing a uniform and a badge is standing ... |
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Description: | Four-fold, copy art Christmas card made by Sid with two photographs of damaged commercial buildings after a fire. In one image, Sid stands on the slushy st... |
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