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Prisoner Wilfred Leigh Mills

Date: 07 08 1940
Description: Prisoner photograph of Wilfred Leigh Mills, inmate number 25714, an English truck driver convicted of larceny.
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Prisoner William Joseph Hogan

Date: 02 11 1946
Description: Prisoner William Joseph Hogan, inmate 28820, a truck driver convicted on two counts of assault with intent to rob.
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Prisoner Virgil Valorous Ishmael

Date: 02 11 1946
Description: Prisoner photograph of Virgil Valorous Ishmael, inmate number 28858, a truck driver convicted of issuing worthless checks.
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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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Convict Laborers

Date: 1915
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...
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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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Fallout Shelter Supplies Arrive

Date: 05 20 1963
Description: Barrels of supplies to stock area fallout shelters being unloaded at the City-County Building by work relief program participants and Huber law prisoners f...

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