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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: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
| Date: | 03 26 1968 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates. |
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| Description: | World War II Harley-Davidson Army Models mounted by ever-alert Military Police, wearing uniforms and armed with guns. |
| Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
| Date: | 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He... |
| Date: | 10 17 1932 |
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| Description: | Captain Leo Kinney, Captain of Detectives, pinning a detective's badge on Joe Fedele, member of Post's Junior Detective Club, an organization sponsored by ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Willie Andazola (left) and Gary Alderette (right) in a jail scene in the film "Salt of the Earth." |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Edward V. Whiton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin from 1853-1859. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | San Francisco police arrest a "suspicious woman" and help her into an International Metro Wagon #689 truck during their Golden Gate beat. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four International Scouts, one patrol car, and two helicopters used by Atlantic Go Patrol, Philadelphia's traffic patrol. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Police officer helping a young woman cross the street. |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| Date: | 09 19 1958 |
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| Description: | County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband. |
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| Description: | International Scouts and a helicopter used by the Atlanta police emergency rescue unit. |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Men receiving paychecks from armored trucks parked outdoors at an IH plant. Signs on the trucks read: "Department of Finance, City of New York." A police o... |
| Date: | 11 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of James Mallory, Municipal Judge of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Ed Gein (1906-1984) signing paperwork at the state crime lab where he was brought for lie detector and other tests or at the city jail where he was held ov... |
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