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| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the... |
| Date: | 03 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild, right, former Wisconsin Attorney General, is sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. D.M. Alsad, Clerk of ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | State patrol officers line up beside their patrol cars at Old District 1 State Patrol Field Headquarters on Highway 12. They appear to be receiving instruc... |
| Date: | 06 28 1954 |
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| Description: | James Quinn, witness of the events leading to the murder and suicide of Doris Russ and Guy Russ, talks to either police investigator John Henry or newspape... |
| Date: | 01 16 1958 |
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| Description: | The original caption states, "Edward Krueger, center, is shown as he was sentenced by Circuit Judge Richard Bardwell to five years in Green Bay state refor... |
| Date: | 06 28 1957 |
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| Description: | City Clerk A. W. Bareis gets the first shine from Tom Sorensen after the boy and his partner, Dick McMahon (right), are told they can continue their street... |
| Date: | 09 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A motorist-eye view through the windshield towards a State Highway Patrol car parked beside a Wisconsin highway. The photographer, sitting in the backseat ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Two police detectives or officers, one handling hacksaw blades and the other inspecting rope, investigating a possible burglary using these items. They are... |
| Date: | 11 21 1958 |
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| Description: | A policeman and two police cadets examine a large file of folders and papers containing warrants to violators who ignore parking and traffic arrest tickets... |
| Date: | 04 06 1959 |
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| Description: | The Madison Police and Fire Commission explores a traffic accident involving Police Chief Bruce Weatherly and witnesses' claims that he was under the influ... |
| Date: | 04 07 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 07 1959 |
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| Description: | The Madison Police and Fire Commission explores a traffic accident involving Police Chief Bruce Weatherly and witnesses' claims that he was under the influ... |
| Date: | 03 30 1959 |
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| Description: | A man is pointing at his name and job title which were recently painted onto the frosted glass of his office door. The man was James L. Karns on his first ... |
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