Tommy Kowaksi was one of New Brighton's first policeman, but also served as the town street sweeper. This photo was taken on present day Fifth Avenue, facing north, with the Hudoba Building and the Transit House Hotel in the background.
Hennepin County Sheriff's Deputy Jack Hacking, holding rifle, talks to helicopter pilot Bud Philips, seated in Sheriff's Department helicopter, with squad car in background.
Hennepin County Sheriff's Captain Richard Duggan, at control desk of jail in the Municipal Building -- also known as Minneapolis City Hall or Hennepin County Courthouse -- speaks to a deputy.
Uniformed Sheriff's staff working at dispatch consoles with radios and telephones; county map on wall; reel-to-reel tape recording equipment in background.
Haben began his career as a policeman sometime in the early 1900s. In a career that spanned nearly thirty years, he ascended to the rank of chief of police.
Vehicle used to travel on thin ice, near the Seaton Channel Bridge on Lake Minnetonka. Hennepin County Sheriff Ed Ryan's head is visible above the vehicle; Deputy Floyd Lundeen is visible looking through its window.
This portrait of Hiram Mendow was taken after his graduation from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1915. Mendow had a extraordinary career as a practicing attorney in Minneapolis, where he represented "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld, head of Minneapolis's bootleg syndicate, among others. The family immigrated from Lithuania, and Mendow began work at the age of six, delivering newspapers and shining shoes. Mendow litigated a number of famous cases, and continued practicing law well beyond his 100th birthday.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Boys participating in a drill. The Minnesota Reform School is currently called the Minnesota Correctional Facility and was also the subject of Bob Dylan's song, "Walls of Red Wing", 1963.
The Warden's House is a 14 room house constructed for the Wardens of the Minnesota Territorial Prison in 1853. The house is at 602 Main Street North and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.