Postcard History

August 20, 2026

Tag: T. Fred Robbins

  • Inside Sing Sing Prison and The Mutual Welfare League

    Inside Sing Sing Prison and The Mutual Welfare League

    Bill Burton

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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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Past Article

Hy Mariampolski
September 20, 2021 15 Comments
Some think the 1950s was a period of innocence. Here is a postcard history that may change your thoughts and enlighten your opinions about what was happening as the roots of diversity took hold in the subterranean nightclubs of New York. It was not like the TV programs that aired while we were doing homework at the dining room table.

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