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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.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Smashing Slot Machines
June 10, 1935
Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confiscated slot machines in the basement of the ...
Smashing Slot Machines
June 10, 1935
Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on.
Ernest F. Burmeister, former Dane Co. Sheriff
November 12, 1947
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 the handcuffs he used on unruly prisoners.
Gang Fight Weapons Confiscated
February 6, 1964
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 students who were planning a gang fight.
John (Jack) Albright
November 28, 1936
Portrait of John (Jack) Albright, former owner of the Club Monterey and one-time king of Madison gamblers, in jail, charged with keeping a gambling house, attempted bribery, conspiracy to bribe and...
Gambling Raid at Downtown Tavern
March 10, 1959
Police and state agents take a gaming machine out the door of the Wagon Wheel tavern, 203 East Washington avenue.
