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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Wallace Reid, wearing jodhpurs and a work shirt, stands in a sherrif's office with a ball and chain attached to his ankle. Behind him is a rolltop desk and... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two prisoners sitting outdoors at their prison camp. Captioned: "Boche prisoners at Saint Hilaire." |
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