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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| 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: | 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... |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows the locations of state forests, national forests, county forests, state nurseries, Indian reservations, st... |
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