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Police

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Burl Lilly biography

 Collection — Folder S3225
Identifier: S3225
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of a typed biography of former Tipton County, Indiana sheriff Burl Lilly written by his daughter Mary Jane Flaningam in April 2000. It includes a photograph of the Tipton County jail and the Governor’s Commission of Election for Lilly as sheriff by Indiana governors M. Clifford Townsend and Henry F. Schricker.
Dates: 2000

"Indianapolis Police Ride Rambler Bicycles, C. Koehring and Brothers" panoramic photograph

 Collection — Folder OBF016
Identifier: OBF016
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a black-and-white panoramic photograph taken by N. H. Losey in Indianapolis, Indiana circa 1897-1910. The image shows 24 bicycle patrolmen from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and three men in civilian clothing, posed in front of the department's central station building.
Dates: circa 1897-1910

William H. Blodgett scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: L372
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two scrapbooks from William H. Blodgett in Anderson, New Castle, and Richmond, Indiana; Illinois; and elsewhere in the United States, ranging from 1858 to 1895 and undated. The scrapbooks contain correspondence, checks, advertisement cards, newspaper clippings, programs, and a ribbon. The first scrapbook (1858-1884, 1895) concerns numerous topics, including politics, business, religion, crime, sports, temperance, police corruption, and other current and local events...
Dates: 1858-1895