April 15, 2026
Tag: lockstep
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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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January 21, 2021 5 Comments
Postcard collectors are very conscious that the cards we cherish reflect the people and events, as well as the standards and ethics of their time. Human Zoos is a scholarly examination of some postcards from an era that we hope will never be again. Postcard history can be controversial too.