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Air Raid Warden

Date: 04 17 1944
Description: Dane County chief air raid warden, Coroner E.A. "Ace" Fischer puts a gas mask on Deputy Sheriff Albert Dahle on a stairway at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Sheldon Walling

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length oval portrait of Sheldon Walling. He was born on December 15, 1795, in Old Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He moved to Wisconsin on ...
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Governor Tommy Thompson and Alice in Dairyland

Date: 08 23 1997
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Courtney Ott, wearing a crown and a sash, is sitting on the back of a motorcycle driven by Governor Tommy Thompson at the start of the ...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Sheriff Edward (Ace) Fischer, prisoner Robert Winslow, and Officer Ray Case, seated in an automobile with a man and woman looking in the window.
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Crashed Automobile

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Crashed automobile on tow truck, with traffic officer, Russell Klitzman, and deputy sheriff, Eldon Johnson, viewing the car.
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Franz Haas at his Standard Gas Station

Date: 11 11 1952
Description: Franz Haas, sheriff elect, washing the windshield of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street.
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Derailed Railcars

Date: 09 22 1997
Description: "A Channel 6 reporter-photographer interviews Dodge County Sheriff, Stephen Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald coordinated security around the crash scene."
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Bank Robbery at Dane

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Undersheriff Jack Leslie (left) receiving information from Herbert Wagner, manager of the Dane branch of the State Bank of Lodi, about the recent robbery o...
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Gang Fight Weapons Confiscated

Date: 02 06 1964
Description: Deputy Sheriff Russell Chesemore shows some of the rubber hoses, a switchblade knife, and a bat-club confiscated from Madison West and Verona High School s...
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Ernest F. Burmeister, former Dane Co. Sheriff

Date: 11 12 1947
Description: Ernest F. Burmeister, Dane County's "boy" sheriff from 1901-1903 and deputy and turnkey in 1891, is shown holding the keys to the old Dane County jail and ...
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Safe Driver Award

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: The Dane County Traffic Director presents a savings bond for the safest driver award to Mineral Point jeweler Ross Graves, who is accepting the award on be...
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Safe Driving Class

Date: 10 28 1957
Description: Dane County traffic officers Rodney C. Schwoegler and A.C. Pope lead a class in driving safely for Truax Field airmen.
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Gun Handling Training Program

Date: 11 05 1964
Description: Dane County sheriff's captain Earl Sorenson, right, instructing deputy Gordon J. Butler in proper gun handling in the basement firing range of the City-Cou...
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Dane County Sheriff John R. Arnold

Date: 12 02 1945
Description: Dane County Sheriff John R. Arnold examining the door frame of a cell in the Dane County Jail. Prisoners had attempted to pry open the door in an unsuccess...
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Chili Run

Date: 03 1983
Description: "Runners are poised to take off in the 5 mile Chili Run. There were 197 entrants, some from as far away as Libertyville, IL."
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Sauk Slaying Trial

Date: 03 02 1962
Description: Sauk County Policeman Fred Bayer, in uniform, using a pointer stick while testifying at the trial of William Welter, Lawrence Nutley, and Richard Nickl. Th...
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Lake Patrol Boats

Date: 05 27 1964
Description: Two lake patrol boats ready to start their summer season patrolling of Lakes Kegonsa and Waubesa. Manning the boats are Sheriff Vernon Leslie, center and l...
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Dane County Jail Fire

Date: 05 15 1948
Description: Public officials inspecting the damage and debris from a fatal fire in the Dane County Jail. The fire was started by two inmates, one of whom died in the e...
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Dane County Jail

Date: 1901
Description: The Dane County Jail. To the right is the sheriff's residence.
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Attempted Jail Break at Dane County Jail

Date: 12 26 1961
Description: Jailer Max Koons pointing to the hastily-repaired ceiling in the lobby of the Dane County Jail which two inmates tried to claw open during an attempted esc...

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