[Hand-cut contents and op-ed pages from the Mentor, Massachusetts state prison] – Antique Print
![[Hand-cut contents and op-ed pages from the Mentor, Massachusetts state prison], 1910 July. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/83ee874d1b53-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Hand-cut contents and op-ed pages from the Mentor, Massachusetts state prison]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Hand-cut contents and op-ed pages from the Mentor, Massachusetts state prison]
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Hand-cut contents and opinion pages from a Massachusetts state prison, dated July 1910, make a small but revealing object. Prison administrators of the period often controlled what inmates could read, so a clipped page like this suggests that news was being selected, trimmed, or passed along by hand. The caption card's details are unverified, so the exact circumstances remain uncertain, but the object itself shows how newspapers reached people behind bars.
| Created / published | 1910 July. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | cf: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Spring 1983, p. 153. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Prisons; Newspapers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,233 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156280 |
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