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: | 09 01 1933 |
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Description: | Chester Briggs, aka Chester Hawk or John Stanovich, was found by police in a boxcar at the Milwaukee Road switching tracks. He is sitting in a chair at the... |
Date: | 07 15 1933 |
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Description: | Portrait of Cecil LaValla, sitting in a chair at the county jail, suspect in the murder of Odin Tofsrud. |
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: | 1870 |
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Description: | Waupun Prison garden. Hill top view of garden with arched trellis and vines and men hoeing in garden; prison in background. |
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: | 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 11 1946 |
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Description: | Prisoner photograph of Virgil Valorous Ishmael, inmate number 28858, a truck driver convicted of issuing worthless checks. |
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Description: | Drawing showing escaped slave Joshua Glover being seized at Racine. |
Date: | 10 1910 |
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Description: | Copy photograph of a man posing sitting in jail, probably John Deitz in Hayward. He appears to have a cast or bandage on his left hand. A young girl is sta... |
Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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Description: | Floyd Parker, a federal prisoner, and one of two inmates of the Dane County Jail who started the cell block fire, was rescued by sheriff's officials and ci... |
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Description: | View of a chain gang from the front window of a car. |
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: | 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... |
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Description: | View of an Angolian prisoner with hands and feet bound in a wooden brace. Caption reads, "These methods were used to capture and hold the prisoners which w... |
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. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | View down road of a group of prisoners wearing striped jumpsuits doing road work while supervisors look on. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near a fence, and... |
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