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| Date: | 02 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster from 1972, voicing support for Karl Armstrong and his involvement in the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1970... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the release of Karl Armstrong, who was incarcerated for his involvement in the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the liberation of Dana Beal, a marijuana legalization advocate who had been recently apprehended in Madison. Poster features a stylized i... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | A mug shot of Nick Bongiovanni, prisoner #467, charged with murder. |
| Date: | 07 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cecil LaValla, sitting in a chair at the county jail, suspect in the murder of Odin Tofsrud. |
| Date: | 09 01 1933 |
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| Description: | Chester Briggs, aka Chester Hawk or John Stanovich, was found by police in a boxcar at the Milwaukee Road switching tracks. He is sitting in a chair at the... |
| Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Floyd Parker, a federal prisoner, and one of two inmates of the Dane County Jail who started the cell block fire, was rescued by sheriff's officials and ci... |
| Wisconsin in the Civil War: Camp Randall |
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| Examine the experience of Confederate prisoners at Camp Randall through newspaper articles |
| Date: | 05 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Barrels of supplies to stock area fallout shelters being unloaded at the City-County Building by work relief program participants and Huber law prisoners f... |
| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster created by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), advocating support of prison rebellions, and the abolishment of alleged racist prison terror. Fe... |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Mildred Fish-Harnack, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Read about the Home for Women, a reformatory for women aged 18 -31, and the State Prison for Women, which became the Taycheedah Correctional Institution. |
| Read about the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun, which opened in 1851 and housed men and women prisoners. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Regiment |
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| Read about the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry, which served in the Civil War 1862-1865 and lost 243 men during service. |
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