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Wed, Aug 18, 2021 09:00AM EDT
Lot 272

Four prison photographs

Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for
$327.60
Sold Price includes BP

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Four prison photographs, to include a photo of a chain gang walking along a railroad track, dressed in striped clothing and carrying shovels, paper on the back reads Associated Press Photo . . . Macon, Ga, March 8th -- This exclusive photo, one of a series, shoes a Bibb County chain gang with picks and shovels shouldered as it quits work for the day. The county commission recently instituted an eight-hour day for the convicts... 3/8/37, 7" x 9"; one with paper on back reading Where Four Convicts Died in Agony, Philadelphia, Pa -- The toilet in one of the two cells of the solitary confinement block of the Philadelphia County Prison at Holmesburg, where four convicts were found on the floors, literally "baked" to death, after the steam had been turned on full force despite the natural heat of the block...8/24/38, stamped Acme Newspictures, Inc., 7" x 9"; one photo of an Alcatraz jail cell, stamped June 27th, 1965, 8" x 10"; and one of a Charlotte County Jail cell, stamped December 2nd, 1970, 6 1/2" x 8 1/2".

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Condition

Good condition overall, chain gang photo has a little waviness

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