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Artifact Detective: Rite-Line Paper Holder

November 21, 2011

Tags: artifact, Artifact Detective, National Law Enforcement Museum, office supply, paper, Rite-Line, secretary

Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! What we know: This…

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December Artifact Detective: Cartoon Cop

December 9, 2009

Tags: artifact, Artifact Detective, cartoon cell, Flintstones cartoon

Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! Flintstones police officer, original…

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November Artifact Detective: Nothing improves your driving like a ticket

November 12, 2009

Tags: artifact, Artifact Detective, Law Enforcement, National Law Enforcement Museum, patrol, pin, ticket

Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! Pin. Collection of the…

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Memory and Tribute: the Relevance of the NLEM’s Memorial Collection

October 28, 2009

Tags: artifact, Elie Wiesel, Memorial Collection, memory, tribute

In the past several weeks, I have spent part of my time focusing on NLEM’s Memorial Collection. Since 1992, visitors to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial have demonstrated their emotional connection to and regard for law enforcement’s fallen by…

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October Artifact Detective: Wild Bill Hickok Items

October 2, 2009

Tags: Andy Devine, artifact, Artifact Detective, Guy Madison, National Law Enforcement Museum, radio show, television show, Wild Bill Hickok

Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! Collection of the NLEM,…

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Perspectives from the Donor of the William Benson Collection

September 18, 2009

Tags: artifact, National Law Enforcement Museum, New York Police Department, NYPD

This post was written by a friend of the Museum, Officer Eric Stolzman, (Retired #490), Yale Department of Police Services.  Officer Stolzman served in New Haven, Conn. and donated his collection to the Museum in 2006. Collecting has always been…

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September Artifact Detective: “We Chirp for the Cleveland Press” Button

September 11, 2009

Tags: artifact, Artifact Detective, Cleveland Ohio, Cleveland Press, National Law Enforcement Museum

By Jeni Ashton, Associate Curator The National Law Enforcement Museum has collected more than 8,000 artifacts to-date, so we can’t always devote as much time to researching individual objects as we would like. Please help us uncover some of the…

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An Educator’s First Visit to the NLEM’s Collections Facility

August 31, 2009

Tags: artifact, National Law Enforcement Museum, Robocop

By Dean MacLeod, Community Education Specialist Have you ever been invited into the inner sanctum of a special place where you once might have suspected you’d have no business going? In early June, I made my first visit to the…

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