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Community Center Photographic Club

Date: 11 10 1949
Description: Three men, acting as judges for the Community Center Photographic color slide contest, view slides while seated at a table. They are, left to right: Robert...
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Striking Workers Confront Police near McCormick Works

Date: 07 31 1952
Description: View from above of police officers forming a line through striking workers near International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption reads: "Harvest...
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Police at Allis-Chalmers Strike

Date: 11 25 1946
Description: Police pushing a group of strikers in front of the factory gate at the Allis-Chalmers strike. On the far right is a man holding a press camera.
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a...
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General Eisenhower and General Marshall

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with General George C. Marshall at an airfield in Paris, France. The man behind Marshall's elbow is Senior Advisor to P...
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Three Generals and a Justice

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: General Dwight D. Eisenhower (SHAEF commander) poses with (left to right) General George C. Marshall (Army Chief of Staff), Justice James F. Byrnes (Senior...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Murder Weapon

Date: 11 23 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "A Dallas Policeman holds the murder weapon used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy high over his...
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Sid Sitting in Jail

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Description: View from sidewalk of Sid sitting in jail with a cigar in his mouth while reading a Gideon Bible. Sid is looking out of the iron gate of a stone building, ...
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David Lee Roth

Date: 08 20 1979
Description: David Lee Roth, lead singer for the band Van Halen, getting into a limousine after visiting the Lake Street Station record store on State Street. The band ...
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Ed Gein Arriving at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 19 1957
Description: Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue, for lie detector and other tests.
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Madison Police Chief Bruce Weatherly

Date: 02 04 1959
Description: A Madison City Council investigative committee explores a traffic accident involving Police Chief Bruce Weatherly and witnesses' claims that he was under t...
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We Saw You . . . at Weatherly Hearing

Date: 04 07 1959
Description: A full room in Circuit Court #3, City-County Building, listens to testimony at the Police and Fire Commission hearing on misconduct charges against Madison...

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