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Filter: Subject of Prisons
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Waupun on the Rock River. There is an inset at top center of "Althouse, Wheeler & Co., Windmills and Pumps." |
| 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: | 02 08 1879 |
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| Description: | A cartoon entitled: "The Latest Illustration of Our Humane Indian Policy" depicting an imprisoned, injured Native American man who has been served "boiled ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | String band consisting of seven inmates at Waupun State Prison. Three seated men hold guitars, three others hold violins and one standing man holds a cello... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | This 1899 map of Dodge County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, post offices, cemeteri... |
| Read about the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun, which opened in 1851 and housed men and women prisoners. |
| Read about the Milwaukee Industrial School reform school, later the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls and Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon |
| A Warrior Prepared to Die is Disappointed |
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| Discover the story of a Ho-Chunk warrior who surrenders and is grieved at receiving a fair trial. |
| Wisconsin's first and only legal execution was for spousal murder in the 1800s. Read about past efforts to re-establish the death penalty in the state. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | This is a map of Waupun in 1898 that shows labeled streets, railroads, and the location of the state prison. There are annotations on the map in what appea... |
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