January 17, 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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February 28, 2022 8 Comments
Young successful women, in a man’s world at the turn of the 20th century was quite uncommon. But in a case of talent winning over those with bias, a young photographer, Mary Bayard Morgan, convinced the General at the National Guard base in Morehead City, N. C., that photos of his soldiers were good for morale.