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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: The family whose farm was the location where the alleged murderers were captured is pictured left to right: Anthony Pomputis, a friend of Robert Winslow, (...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding.
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: The farm of the Pomputis family near Longwood, where Sennett and Winslow hid out and were captured.
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Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Man and Horse

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man posed standing outdoors, holding a feathered spear and wearing a large bonnet. He is standing next to a hors...
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Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County Traffic officers, E. W. Kelzenberg and Emil Schmale, and Evan Chambers of the state crime laboratory looking at the death scene of Bernice Johnson. ...
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Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned....
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Myles Standish Statue

Date: 1892
Description: Close-up of a statue of Captain Myles Standish, a military leader of the Plymouth Colony. Begun in 1892, the statue depicts Standish grasping his sword in...
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Base of Oerlikon Anti-Aircraft Gun

Date: 1942
Description: View of base of the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun in a factory, possibly International Harvester's Indianapolis Works.
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Marines Operating Gun at Camp Elliott

Date: 1942
Description: Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns.
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Marines at Rifle Range

Date: 1941
Description: Large group of marines are outdoors firing from a sitting position at a firing range, possibly at a Marine Corps firing range at La Jolla, California.
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Business District

Date: 1909
Description: A street scene at the post office. The post office houses J.E. James Childs Cabinets. One man stands at the doorpost and three men sit on makeshift seats o...
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Bombed Street in Hanoi

Date: 1967
Description: A heavily bombed street in Hanoi. A number of people are in the street in the background near parked cars.
Book or Pamphlet

Welcome To Fear City

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Description: Guidelines prepared and distributed as a public service by the Council For Public Safety in New York, NY. A pamphlet survival guide for visitors to the cit...
Map or Atlas

Map of 1821 Borough of Prairie du Chien

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Description: This map is pen-and-ink on tracing paper with a mounted legend and shows the Kickapoo River, Indian mounds, the 1st Fort Crawford, an Indian Agency, the si...
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Traffic Patrolman James Jantz' Funeral

Date: 08 24 1961
Description: Mrs. James C. Jantz, wife of the slain policeman, holding the arm of her mother, Mrs. Roger Keith, and leaning on the shoulder of her brother, Jerome Boyer...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Evening Record" Page Two

Date: 03 15 1896
Description: Page two of the "Evening Record." The handwritten newspaper includes several hand-drawn illustrations. On the top center of the page, one illustration port...
Poster

Cathédrale de Reims

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of the ruins of the Cathédrale de Reims. A ghost image of the undamaged cathedral is in the background. Red poppy flowers are g...
Photograph

Examining Vandalized Tombstones

Date: 05 21 1979
Description: Two women are standing between rows of gravestones in a cemetery. Some of the gravestones have been knocked over. One woman is pointing over her shoulder w...
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Vandals Spray Paint Cars and Homes on Coolidge, Dahle and Moland Streets

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: Halloween vandals use black spray paint on east side homes. Paint was sprayed on at least 13 cars and 15 homes on Coolidge, Dahle and Moland Streets. Four ...

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