[Japanese Internment] [Law & Public Policy] Previously owned by Takako Saito; a documented Manzanar incarceree; this archive of three books titled National Defense Migration Hearings; intended for use by the Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration; Parts 29–31; 1942; documents Congress’s investigation into the forced removal of Japanese Americans from.....

Chain gang labor photographs from the early twentieth century and mid twentieth century document the continuation of forced penal labor in the American South, a system that disproportionately targeted African American prisoners after the end of Reconstruction. Convict leasing and chain gang labor became central components of Southern penal systems.....

[Prison & Incarceration] Angola Prison Documentary Press Photograph Archive Depicting Inmate Living Conditions and Institutional Control at Louisiana State Penitentiary 1930–1976Former plantation, Angola prison press photographs documenting Louisiana State Penitentiary, the former Angola plantation turned state prison, one of the most historically significant and controversial carceral institutions in the United.....

[African American] [Latino History] [Criminal Justice] [Photography] Unidentified press photographers, War on Drugs photographs, 1974 to 1992 document law enforcement operations, arrests, and media coverage of drug enforcement in Texas during the expansion of federal and local anti narcotics campaigns. Produced for newspaper circulation by the Houston Chronicle and the.....

Operation Big Switch photo archive documenting the return of prisoners of war after the Korean Armistice Agreement of July 27, 1953, when Allied and Communist forces began the large-scale exchange of captured personnel through Panmunjom and nearby Freedom Village. The operation followed Little Switch, the earlier exchange of sick and.....

Glass lantern slide photograph group of incarcerated men, late nineteenth century, documents prison yard life within a racially stratified carceral system in the United States following Reconstruction. The images show predominantly African American prisoners alongside some white inmates in striped uniforms, situating the material within a period when Black men.....

Burns, Vincent. Female Convict, 1934, examines women’s incarceration in the United States through a sensationalized narrative centered on sexuality, authority, and institutional abuse, contributing to early literary portrayals of lesbianism within carceral settings. Written by a co-author of I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, the work extends.....

Unidentified police photographers, mugshot photograph archive, Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida, 1960s to 1970s, documenting law enforcement identification practices applied to African American men in urban contexts during the postwar period. The material documents criminal identification systems through standardized booking photography, revealing how individuals were processed and recorded by police.....

Unidentified police photographers, mugshot photograph archive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1950s to 1960s, documenting law enforcement identification practices applied to African American men in an urban mid-twentieth-century context. The material documents criminal identification systems through standardized booking photography, revealing how individuals were processed, recorded, and categorized by police authorities, and providing.....

[Prison and Incarceration][Social activism] Prison reform organizing conference broadside. Attica and San Quentin prison organizing stand at the center of this January 1972 Berkeley conference broadside, which opens with a Brecht quote, “Slave, who is it that shall free you...all of us or none”, and declares that “no one in.....

[Prison and Incarceration] [Biography] Mary Carpenter. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. Book with Autograph Letter Signed of Mary Carpenter Pasted in, 1879 Carpenter, J. Estlin, M.A.--The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter, First Edition (1879). Bound in green leather with marbled boards. 495 pages. Portrait of Carpenter facing.....

Unidentified press photographers, Georgia and federal penitentiary prisoner photographs, 1925–1941, document systems of penal discipline and prison labor in the American South, supporting research into carceral punishment, forced labor practices, and the integration of incarcerated workers into state and federal economies. The material captures two distinct but related systems: punitive.....

[Black Panthers][African American][Prison] Large original movie poster for Brothers (1977). Measuring 40" x 60". Brothers is based on the friendship between Angela Davis and prison inmate George Jackson. Political activist Angela Davis took up Jackson's cause and became romantically involved with him. The relationship resulted in a courtroom shootout that.....