June 25, 2025
Tag: electric chair
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Inside Sing Sing Prison and The Mutual Welfare League
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Forty miles north of New York City, “up the Hudson River,” Sing Sing Prison got a new warden in 1915. Thomas Mott Osborne ushered in a wave of penal reform. Out went the lockstep, in came (limited) prisoner self-governance. T. Fred Robbins, a nearby photographer and constable, was allowed to document many of the changes…
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October 22, 2023 5 Comments
Thinking how you could combine a Canadian hotel postcard with two light bulb postcards would likely cause a headache, but then add two Great Lake sidewheelers that were converted to U. S. Naval vessels, and you get a very peculiar trilogy. Enjoy the read.