Title Info: Clark County Sheriff, Wanted Posters, 1909-1934

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Record Creator: Clark County Government, Sheriff
Description:
This scrapbook includes ephemera and documents collected by the Clark County Sheriff Department and pasted inside a 1906 Real Property Assessment Roll volume. Items include wanted posters, missing posters, identification photographs (mug shots), correspondence, descriptive lists of deserters from the U.S. Army, and dealers’ records of sale of dangerous weapons. Many posters are from different states.

This scrapbook can be browsed page by page. Pages are numbered as they fall in the scrapbook (ex: “p003” is page 3 of the scrapbook). Blank pages are not included.

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Access Restriction Notes: These records are open for research.
Sources of Transfer Southwest Regional Archives
Notes This scrapbook is held at the Southwest Region Branch of the Washington State Archives in Olympia, WA.

Indexing completed by Victoria Haley. Digitization completed by the Washington State Archives.
Agency History: The Sheriff is the chief official concerned with preservation of peace in the county, has the power to apprehend all persons guilty of public offenses, and is the custodian of prisoners in the county jail. The Sheriff keeps records on the execution of court instructions, investigations, arrests, and jail maintenance.
Preferred Citation: Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], Clark County Sheriff, Wanted Posters, 1909-1934, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
Record Count: 335