July 16, 2025
Tag: T. Fred Robbins
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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 22, 2022 5 Comments
There are twelve six-part sets of Uvachrom postcards illustrated by Oskar Herrfurth. You may not know Oskar, but the name of the brothers who found the Tale of the Bremen Musicians is surely one you know – it’s a “Grimm” story! Pun intended.