(PRISONS) Photograph of convicts leased out to a road crew i

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(PRISONS.) Photograph of convicts leased out to a road crew in Atlanta. Photograph, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, with several stamps and notations on verso from the Gilliams Service and the receiving newspaper; cropped, minor wear. Atlanta, GA, circa 1909-1915

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At least 15 convicts, most of them Black, perform road work while a guard and several pedestrians look on. The captions on verso suggest that this photo was used as a generic illustration for a 1923 news story about a death in a prison camp, but it dates from several years earlier in Atlanta. The Dixie Garage, seen in the background at center, was at 12 E. Cain Street in Atlanta from about 1909 to 1915.