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Cracked Safe
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Police Investigator Ralph Nedderman is shown examining the torch-burned safe at the John Deere Farmers Implement Co., 110 N. Thornton Avenue. Two other locations were also robbed the same night.
February 11, 1950
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Dane County Police Ambulance
May 11, 1950
A deputy stands beside a Dane County Police Ambulance parked on a residential street.
John Deere Employee
April 6, 1953
A woman stands behind a counter while writing on tablet near a sign reading "Buy Only Genuine John Deere Parts."
Dane County Police Ambulance
May 11, 1950
A deputy sheriff loads a person on a gurney into the back of a new Dane County police ambulance.
Portrait of Madison Police Officer
July 8, 1952
Portrait of a Madison police officer in uniform.
Madison Police Department Records Center
April 7, 1954
A force of sixty-eight civilians is employed by the Madison police department to aid and supplement the city's one hundred forty-five police officers. Many of them work in clerical and records work.
Groves-Barnhart Business School
February 1, 1950
Groves-Barnhart Business School students studying in a classroom.
