December 14, 2025
Tag: up the river
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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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August 30, 2020 4 Comments
Elizabeth O’Neill Verner(1883-1979) Liz Verner was likely one of the most traveled and best educated artists of her era. As a graduate student she spent time in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. As a post-graduate student, she studied at the Ursuline Academy in Columbia, South Carolina, and the Central School of Fine […]