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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, with confiscated whiffle board and roulette wheel. |
| Date: | 10 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Welding equipment in back seat of bank robbery suspects' car. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Punch press equipment at one of the Wisconsin prisons used for the manufacture of license plates and traffic signs. This photograph appeared in a 1961 publ... |
| Date: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Frank Deischel, Wausau, President of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, standing with an illegal slot machine in Deischel's tavern. |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Scene along the Yahara River where the body of Max Hobert, a Madison bartender, was found. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View of base of the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun in a factory, possibly International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Man playing an illegal 25 cent slot machine in the Valley Tavern, on Highway 42, two miles north of Kenosha. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Silver Arrow Tavern on U.S. Highway 12. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Illegal gambling machines in Kelley's Tavern, in the city of Lake Geneva. |
| Date: | 06 13 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Dell View hotel. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Green Parrot Tavern on Highway 12, north of Elkhorn. The machines are in a case, which the proprietor closes when he... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | An illegal gambling machine in a tavern. |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in the Brass Ball Tavern. |
| Date: | 03 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in a tavern on Highway 41, about one mile south of the Racine County Line. A man in a hat stands on the left, facing away. |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | An illegal gambling machine in a dining area of a restaurant. A waiter is visible through a doorway on the left. |
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