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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: | 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Small group of Vietnamese soldiers stand with a recently captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong on a path in the woods in Vietnam. One soldier is u... |
| 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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