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Crime Scene Investigation

Date: 05 11 1955
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...
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Fond du Lac Avenue

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Description: Police officer directing traffic on a busy intersection. Walgreen Drugs is on one corner, Standard Service and Six Point beer garden on the opposite corner...
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Woman Turning Her Back During a Raid

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: A woman turns her back on an agent as they enter the establishment where she worked at the beginning of a raid on many Hurley area bars. The arrest warrant...
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Women Hiding Faces During Raid

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: Three women hide their faces as they walk in front of State Agents after exiting their place of business during a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establi...
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Man Seized in Vice Raid

Date: 07 04 1942
Description: State Agent (left, with face blacked out to prevent future identification) as he seized the operator of the roulette table at the Ritz Bar after a sweeping...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1984
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot...
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Van Bergen Block and Albee's Block

Date: 1973
Description: View across South Pinckney Street, on the corner of East Doty Street, at the Van Bergen Block (left) and Albee's Block (right). From left to right, the bus...
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Police Cadet Walks Beat with Veteran Patrolman

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: Madison recruit policeman Franklin Oswald (left) learns how to operate on the beat by walking with veteran patrolman Eugene Buchanan (right) on Post 33, th...

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