January 22, 2025
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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Burton Frasher photographed the old west with old cameras and slow film and created some of the most amazing photographs of his era. For more than four decades Frasher and his son traveled the west and the real-photo postcards they made are still found at today’s postcard shows. Look for the Frasher logo and be awed by the beauty.