December 16, 2025
Tag: Thomas Mott Osborne
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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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March 24, 2024 3 Comments
“Rat-a-tat, tat, tat.” These words are as close as we can come to the world of Woody Woodpecker. Woody was a fun loving bird created by Walter Lantz for Warner Brother’s Studio. Woody and his pal Daffy Duck were everyone’s favorite cartoon characters – even mine! And there are postcards.