Lot 345
345 •(UNITED STATES INDUSTRIAL REFORMATORY)
Archive with over 110 photographs documenting the cellblock construction, onsite hospital, and the various occupations undertaken by the inmate workforce at the U.S. Industrial Reformatory in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Including views of the reformatory infrastructure such as the veterans hospital with scenes of the operating room and rehab, kitchens and dining hall, automotive garage, paint shop, metal shop, and prison school. As well as images depicting the administrative buildings, detention center, cellblocks, and watchtowers; and the reformatory farm, complete with various livestock, a piggery, milking barn, and large grainery. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 4x5 inches (10.2x12.7 cm.), and slightly larger, and the reverse, many with notations and/or dates, in pencil or ink, or typed, on verso. 1931-36
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