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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: | 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: | 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: | 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Two Viet Cong prisoners seen through a window covered in barbed wire in a structure built of bamboo and grass. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Poster for the film "The Flaming Crisis." A is man laying on a cot in a jail with his hand raised to protect himself. Standing near the cot is a ghost wear... |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | The defendant, Ralph O'Dell, is shown holding his 17-month-old son Timmie and saying goodbye, after receiving a life sentence for killing Joseph Knock duri... |
| Date: | 03 15 1978 |
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| Description: | Patrick J. Lucey, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, visiting U.S. prisoners being held at Jalisco State Penitentiary in Mexico. |
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