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| Date: | 09 23 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster for Karl Armstrong freedom party. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Drawing showing escaped slave Joshua Glover being seized at Racine. |
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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: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster created by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), advocating support of prison rebellions, and the abolishment of alleged racist prison terror. Fe... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the liberation of Dana Beal, a marijuana legalization advocate who had been recently apprehended in Madison. Poster features a stylized i... |
| Date: | 02 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster from 1972, voicing support for Karl Armstrong and his involvement in the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1970... |
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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: | 02 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Prison photographs (two quarter-length, one full-length) of Joseph Young, inmate number 25417, a bookkeeper and switchboard operator. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | String band consisting of seven inmates at Waupun State Prison. Three seated men hold guitars, three others hold violins and one standing man holds a cello... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of correctional inmates work in a trench, while a man with a firearm watches from above. |
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