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Working on a Chain-Gang

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Description: African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia.
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Chain Gang On a Highway

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Description: View of a chain gang from the front window of a car.
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New York State Reformatory

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Description: A view of the trade school machine shop, with a man standing by each machine. Light streams in from the windows on both sides of the shop. Caption reads: "...
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Composite Views of a Georgia Ferry and a Chain Gang

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Description: Two views, one of a ferry and the other of a chain gang. The ferry operator poses with a man in his carriage on the ferry, with trees in the background. Th...
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Frame 13: Working on the Chain Gang

Date: 1964
Description: A group of correctional inmates work in a trench, while a man with a firearm watches from above.

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