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Correctional Photo Archives
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Access to the American Prison Society Photographic Archive collected by William Bain is provided at this website include: about the collection; access the collection; access the inventory; search this site; other links; other resources; and contact information. "[R]ich in its depiction of early twentieth century prison life and conditions. . .[, this] collection covers numerous subjects such as prison living conditions, recreational activities, industries, hospital care, corporal living conditions, recreational activities, industries, hospital care, corporal living conditions, recreational activities, industries, hospital care, corporal punishment, work gangs on the farm and quarries, vocational activities, weapons confiscated prison architecture, . . . the death house. . .[and] prison officials" (p. 1).