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| Date: | 03 26 1968 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates. |
| Date: | 07 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Martha Finn, jail matron and wife of Sheriff Fred T. Finn, sitting at a table, reading a newspaper. Her duties consist of cooking for all the j... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Interior of the cell blocks in the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the south end of the new dining room in the Wisconsin State Prison. A man is standing next to a long table filled with plants. Large windows are al... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the guards' room in the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the chapel in the Wisconsin State Prison. In the foreground are chairs, and in front of the stage is a piano. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the then recently completed cell block of the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| Date: | 10 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 13 superintendents of state welfare institutions with A.W. Bayley (extreme right, standing), director of the Wisconsin Deptartment of Pub... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Punch press equipment at one of the Wisconsin prisons used for the manufacture of license plates and traffic signs. This photograph appeared in a 1961 publ... |
| Date: | 12 02 1945 |
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| Description: | June Dieckman, police reporter for the "Wisconsin State Journal," shown examining a hole in a ventilating pipe cut by two federal prisoners attempting to e... |
| Date: | 08 25 1950 |
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| Description: | A telephone in the cell block at the Madison police headquarters, adjacent to the fingerprinting counters, explicitly for use by arrested persons. The pict... |
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| Description: | A interior view of a cell block. Cells line the left side, with five levels visible. Long rectangular windows line the wall to the right. Two men, presuma... |
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| Description: | View of an electric chair with straps in a room with wooden walls and a concrete floor. Caption reads: "Electric Chair, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y." |
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| Description: | A view at ground floor of the cell block, with cells on the left and windows on the right outer wall; a series of pipes also run along this wall. An arched... |
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| Description: | A view of a dress parade, with the men wearing military-like uniforms. They men are lined up in orderly rows in a field house. Caption reads: "Dress Parad... |
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| Description: | View from stage of the auditorium. Male inmates fill the seats, and a man sits on the stage facing them. Caption reads: "The Auditorium - New York State Re... |
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| Description: | A view of the dining room. There is a utensil and plate at each seat, with cups and bowls grouped at the head of the table, with a large serving utensil. C... |
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| Description: | A view of the trade school machine shop, with a man standing by each machine. Light streams in from the windows on both sides of the shop. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 12 10 1964 |
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| Description: | View of two men, with their backs to the camera, are sitting in a workshop at Oregon State Farm painting toys. Pieces of freshly painted, disassembled toy ... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three men posing in a long prison hallway. Two men are on the first level balcony with one on the inside of the railing and the other man st... |
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