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Smashing Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 1948
Description: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines.
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Slot Machine Seizure

Date: 01 1924
Description: Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i...
Poster

International K-Line Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1941
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Includes the triple diamond logo at the top, and features a color illustration of a K-line truck with a cartoo...
Photograph

Smashing Slot Machines

Date: 06 10 1935
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...
Photograph

Smashing Slot Machines

Date: 06 10 1935
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.
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Whiffle Board & Roulette Wheel

Date: 06 10 1935
Description: Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, with confiscated whiffle board and roulette wheel.
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Police Firing on Crowd Near McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 05 03 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact...
Photograph

Prison Industries

Date: 1961
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...
Photograph

Smashing Illegal Gambling Devices

Date: 1948
Description: Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ...
Photograph

Payday at Truck

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by...
Photograph

Police Near Cars at Textile Workers Strike

Date: 1937
Description: Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely".
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Destruction of Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 02 19 1949
Description: Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the...
Photograph

Confiscated Sturgeon

Date: 1942
Description: Warden Kramer and an assistant hold up confiscated sturgeon caught with illegal snag lines.
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Parke & Parke Drugs Trucks

Date: 1937
Description: Two men driving International D-2 trucks used by Parke & Parke Drugs park along the road in front of the storefront. A police officer stands on the street ...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Tractor at Exposition

Date: 1935
Description: A uniformed man, possibly a police officer or a security guard, drives a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor through the Eastern States Exposition grounds towin...
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People Gathered for Scrap Drive Parade

Date: 05 18 1942
Description: Elevated view of a large group of people gathered with tractors and trucks for a scrap parade in a downtown area. In the background automobiles are parked ...
Photograph

New York State Reformatory

Date: 
Description: A view of the trade school machine shop, with a man standing by each machine. Light streams in from the windows on both sides of the shop. Caption reads: "...
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Police and CIO Clash

Date: 03 25 1941
Description: Police officer and marchers from a Congress of Industrial Organizations (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) union clash outside Intern...
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Workers' Protest

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: Factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a strike. A uniformed police officer looks on from the right. The workers are picketing ne...
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IH Workers on Strike

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works.

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