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| Date: | 03 08 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a prisoner, who has a wooden leg, hauling "lighter" wood from the pine woods and Turpentine Orchard to camp with an ox-drawn wagon. Original captio... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of buildings and grounds of the Wisconsin State Prison. Prisoners are line up in formation. |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
| Date: | 01 20 1940 |
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| Description: | Prison mug shot of Edward Pendergast, inmate number 25367, an Irish mill wright who was convicted of arson. |
| Date: | 01 22 1940 |
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| Description: | Prisoner photograph of Harvey Wiles, inmate number 25371, who was a clerk convicted on three counts of embezzlement. |
| Date: | 02 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Prison photograph of Lyle Tadder, inmate number 25409, a painter who was convicted of larceny of auto. |
| Date: | 07 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Prisoner photograph of Wilfred Leigh Mills, inmate number 25714, an English truck driver convicted of larceny. |
| Date: | 02 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Prisoner William Joseph Hogan, inmate 28820, a truck driver convicted on two counts of assault with intent to rob. |
| Date: | 02 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Prisoner Gustave Pete Sharlow, inmate number 28827, an Indian tailor convicted of larceny. |
| Date: | 02 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Prisoner photograph of Virgil Valorous Ishmael, inmate number 28858, a truck driver convicted of issuing worthless checks. |
| Date: | 04 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Prisoner photograph of Salvatore "Cono" Librizzi, inmate number 28898, a laborer who was convicted of burglary. |
| Date: | 11 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Prison photograph of Henry G. Baxter, inmate number 32394, a tavern and restaurant keeper convicted of selling mortgaged property. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a... |
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| Description: | View of a chain gang from the front window of a car. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Prison identification photograph of Carl Braden after his conviction for sedition. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Carl Braden (center) leaves the LaGrange Prison with his wife Anne and his attorney Robert Zollinger. Braden was released after a Supreme Court decision ru... |
| Date: | 05 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden at the time of their surrender to federal authorities. Both men had refused to testify to before the House Un-American Acti... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels. |
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