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Seeing Double for Thanksgiving

November 23, 2010

Tags: balloon, Boston, National Law Enforcement Museum, parade, Thanksgiving

With the winter holidays upon us, we thought we’d take a look at the collection to see what we had related to law enforcement and Thanksgiving.Photo, stereoview, 1938. 2006.369.1. Collection of the NLEM, Washington, DC.The photograph is a 1938 stereo…

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Making Connections with the NLEM Collection

June 18, 2010

Tags: civil service reform, collections, Irving Hall, National Law Enforcement Museum, political cartoon, Tammany Hall, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Nast

Museums often collect individual objects because they are important in and of themselves. Sometimes, however, we are able to make connections among various items and are able to tell a broader story. That has happened with a number of items…

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Love and Law Enforcement

February 12, 2010

Tags: Museum collection, National Law Enforcement Museum, police, valentine, Valentine's Day

For four years we have been developing the collection of the National Law Enforcement Museum. One would think that, given the nature of policing, the bulk of what will be in the Museum’s collection is of a serious nature: uniforms,…

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Bringing the Museum Into Your Home: The NLEM’s Online Catalog

December 3, 2009

Tags: artifacts, collections, FBI, online catalog, oral histories

The National Law Enforcement Museum is one of only a few museums that has decided to catalog ALL of its collections—from books, manuscripts, and photographs to oral histories and three-dimensional artifacts—in one database, thus allowing access to all kinds of…

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Stories from an American Postcard

October 22, 2009

Tags: California, Matthew Karcher, National Law Enforcement Museum, Patrick Crowley, postcard, robbery, Sacramento Police Department, San Francisco Police Department, wanted card

As a child I collected post cards. My parents traveled a lot and sent me pictures from where they visited. I saved them all. As I got older, I began to buy postcards as remembrances of my trips. Post cards…

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