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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Madison Police Department's First Pre-service Training Course Graduates
December 30, 1949
Seventeen police rookies and graduates of the Madison Police Department stand in a line at their very first pre-service training course. They began their new duties the night of their graduation, D...
Police Recruits
October 22, 1958
Nineteen new police recruits are shown sitting in class. The men who are in pre-service training began classes September 16 and will graduate in January.
Polio Short Course
June 29, 1948
Wisconsin physicians seated in a classroom while attending the second annual polio short course. The course is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Medical School and the Wisconsin county chapters of the ...
Central High School Trade and Technical Courses
February 7, 1951
Drafting student Bruce Maxwell confers with his instructor, Herbert Zimdars. They are participating in Central High School's first year of Trade and Technical Courses.
Police Officer Training Program
September 16, 1953
Rookie police officer Thomas McCarthy stands beside Police Inspector Philip Onkey. McCarthy is one of thirteen recruits receiving training in the Madison Police Department's 1953 training program.
American Citizenship Course
March 29, 1960
Richard D. Carleton, left, instructor from the Madison Vocational school, stands at a blackboard with two of his students, Frank Vanhontte, from Belgium, and Irmgard Hall, from Germany. The student...
