April 30, 2026
Tag: Mutual Welfare League
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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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May 23, 2022 5 Comments
Charles E. Turner, a port-side artist based in Liverpool of the 1920s presented Cunard with portraits of ships in their fleet. Taylor, Garnett, and Evans Company published the postcards and they became ship store items and passenger favors throughout the decade. Postcard History has the cards.