December 16, 2025
Tag: prison
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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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June 19, 2022 3 Comments
Advertising postcards, should be a chapter in the history of Madison Avenue ad agencies. Their role in society is not measured with dollars, but with memories such as,, “Hey, my mom had one of those.”