New Jersey convict road builders (LOC)

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New Jersey convict road builders

[between 1910 and 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from negative.
Photo shows prisoners walking along a road. Possibly related to a New York Times article, Jan. 12, 1913, about New Jersey's experiment with prison labor. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
N.J.

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11117

Call Number: LC-B2- 2473-13

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swanq says:

See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE 7DA163FE633A...

"CONVICT ROAD WORK TRIED IN NEW JERSEY Commissioner Stevens Describes Successful Experiment and Tells His Plans. WOULD TRAIN THE CONVICTS Perfect Work Demanded of State Laborers for Benefit of Roads and Themselves.

January 12, 1913, Sunday

The experiment of convict labor on State roads, which was proved to be a success in one week, is only the beginning of good road building beyond what we already have and at a price which will spread out the money of the State beyond its present confines," said Col. Edwin A. Stevens, State Road Commissioner of New Jersey, the other day."
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