October 15, 2024
Tag: penal reform
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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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September 1, 2021 5 Comments
It is easy to imagine that cards printed around the world would be for sale around the world – Not So! Early in the first decade of the 20th century, a German artist named Hans Stövhaus painted a series of “Airship” pictures. Tuck & Sons turned his pictures into postcards for sale in Germany and only in Germany.