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Female Law Enforcement Officers Learn To Fire Sub-Machine Guns In FBI School, May 1947 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

Female Law Enforcement Officers Learn To Fire Sub-Machine Guns In FBI School, May 1947 image
Year:
1947
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 22, 1947
Caption:
LADY TOMMY-GUNNERS TAKE AIM: A trio of feminine law enforcement officers prepares to blast the bulls-eye to bits with Thompson sub-machine guns in firing instructions given as the final feature of the FBI school for local police and sheriff's officers. Left to right are: Mrs. Jewel Reynolds, policewoman; Mrs. Ethel Slittler, sheriff's officer deputy; and Mrs. Ann Tapp, also a policewoman. Coaching the gunners is Special Agent George L. Blue, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Law Enforcement Officers Practice At Firing Range During FBI School Instruction, May 1947 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

Law Enforcement Officers Practice At Firing Range During FBI School Instruction, May 1947 image
Year:
1947
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 22, 1947
Caption:
LAW OFFICERS AT HOME ON RANGE: Members of the Ann Arbor police department and the Washtenaw sheriff's office practice with tommy-guns at the police department firing range, located off Huron River Dr. about three miles west of Ann Arbor. A total of 55 law enforcement officers took part in firing instruction with pistols and riot guns as well as the Thompson sub-machine gun. The firing practice concludes an FBI school for law officers that has been in intermittent session since Feb. 4.

Ypsilanti Residents Try New Voting Machines, November 1950 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

Ypsilanti Residents Try New Voting Machines, November 1950 image
Year:
1950
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 4, 1950
Caption:
YPSILANTIANS TRY VOTING MACHINES: Mrs. Frances Johnson of 97 Oakwood St., Ypsilanti, received some pointers yesterday in how to operate the city's new voting machines from Mrs. Robert Burke of 102 S. Hamilton St. Mrs. Burke is one of an Ypsilanti Junior Chamber of Commerce force of 36 trained instructors to teach voters to pull levers instead of marking "X's" in Tuesday's balloting.

Newly Married Walter & Ruth Metzger With Wedding Gifts, March 1950 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

Newly Married Walter & Ruth Metzger With Wedding Gifts, March 1950 image
Year:
1950
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 23, 1950
Caption:
Although their wedding was an event of Feb. 18, Walter Metzger and his bride, the former Ruth Ebinger, are just now seeing many of their wedding gifts. They arrived by plane this week from Germany, where they were married in the bride's home town, Erbstetten, in the American zone. Mr. Metzger met his bride when visiting relatives in Germany last summer.

Lansky Building Damaged in Explosion, December 1951 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

Lansky Building Damaged in Explosion, December 1951 image
Year:
1951
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 27, 1951
Caption:
BLAST RIPS WALL OF LANKSY BUILDING: These huge concrete blocks were dumped into the P. Lansky & Sons junk yard driveway when a blast blew out a 20-foot section of wall this morning. The explosion bared the office and basement area where a gas accumulation was believed to have been touched off. No one was injured.

Gladys Rowley Making Cornstarch Figurines, December 1946 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

Gladys Rowley Making Cornstarch Figurines, December 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 11, 1946
Caption:
Mrs. Henry Rowley spends some of her spare moments making figurines out of cornstarch, salt and water for her friends and for various organizations to use as place-makers at dinners. She got the idea for the tiny Santas, angels, skiers and sledders from the cornstarch mountains she used to mould as a grade-school pupil making relief maps for her geography classes.