August 24, 2026
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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June 27, 2024 8 Comments
They don’t say it anymore, but once it was common knowledge that “Wall Street was no place for women.” But, when Hetty Green came along in the 1890s, with money to invest, and wasn’t shy about forcing her financial influence on the men, they called her the Witch of Wall Street.