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| Date: | 03 26 1968 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates. |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin State Prison from outside the prison's walls. |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Interior of the cell blocks in the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Front Yard Wis State Prison." Landscaped yard with plants in urns on the lawn near a path in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Front Yard Wis State Prison Waupun Wis." |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the guards' room in the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the chapel in the Wisconsin State Prison. In the foreground are chairs, and in front of the stage is a piano. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the then recently completed cell block of the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Front Yard Wisconsin State Prison Waupun." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a then recently completed cell block at the State Prison. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The dormitory building of the Taycheedah Industrial Home for Women. |
| 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... |
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