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Conversations with the dead
- Title: Conversations with the dead
- Creator(s): Lyon, Danny, photographer
- Date Created/Published: [New York] : RFG Publishing, Inc., [1983].
- Medium: 1 portfolio (76 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 28 x 35 cm.
- Summary: Photographs document life in six Texas prisons, 1967-1968.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
Publication may be restricted. For information see "Danny Lyon" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/089_lyon.html)
- Call Number: PH - Lyon (D.), no. 4 (Portfolio) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
- Notes:
- Use surrogate filed with P&P reference books: HV9475.T4L9.
- Prints signed by artist on verso.
- Negatives of 10 prints have been retired.
- LC has portfolio no. XII.
- This record contains unverified data from caption cards.
- Purchase; 1988; (DLC/PP-1988:181).
- Subjects:
- Format:
- Collections:
- Contents:
1. Diagnostic
2. Entering prison, seven years and life
3. Entering prison
4. Contents of arriving prisoner's wallet
5. Entering prison, two years for burglary, ten years for robbery
6. Showers
7. New arrivals from Corpus Christi
8. Main corridor
9. Four years, burglary
10. Dining room
11. Age 18, six years, theft; age 18, three years, burglary; age 18, four years, forgery
12. The line
13. Convict and boss
14. Two years, burglary
15. Cotton pickers
16. The line
17. Hoe sharpener and the line
18. Boss
19. Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work
20. Main corridor
21. Main corridor after work
22. [Aaron Evert Jones, Jr.]
23. Main entrance to the walls
24. Meal line
25. Seven years flat on a twenty-year sentence
26. Cell of two Chicano convicts
27. Three convicts
28. Cell block table
29. Prison tattoos
30. Aaron Evert Jones, life, habitual criminal
31. Norris Mundy, from Montreal; five years and an eight-year federal hold
32. The yard
33. Texas prison rodeo
34. Visiting room
35. Jones and Raymond Jackson, ten years, robbery
36. Condemned man
37. The electric chair
38. The line. Twenty-five, five, thrity-five, forty and fifteen years
39. The line, Ramsey Two
40. Waiting to weigh cotton
41. Watering a boss
42. Cotton picker, ten years, robbery and assault
43. Cotton picker, life sentence, robbery
44. Water boy
45. Heat exhaustion
46. Hoe squad
47. Return from the fields
48. Shakedown before returning to the building
49. Shakedown
50. Cell block
51. Six-wing cell block
52. Young convict about to discharge a ten year sentence. Apparatus to open cells
53. Two convicts
54. Convict
55. Weight-lifters
56. Dining room
57. Education department
58. Classroom. Fifteen years, seven years and a convict teacher, fifteen years
59. Ramsey
60. Inmate outside warden's office, about to be transferred by local authorities
61. Forty-five years, robbery
62. Heat exhaustion
63. Clearing land
64. Young boss
65. Dog boy
66. Return from the fields, shakedown at the rear gate. Twice every work day.
67. Shakedown
68. Shakedown
69. Shakedown, main corridor
70. Dayroom
71. Cell block
72. Building shakedown
73. Day room
74. Convict in prison twenty calendar years, life sentence. Speaking is forbidden in the dining room.
75. Schizophrenic inmate, imprisoned twenty years
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: PH - Lyon (D.), no. 4 (Portfolio) [P&P]
- Medium: 1 portfolio (76 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 28 x 35 cm.
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- Call Number: PH - Lyon (D.), no. 4 (Portfolio) [P&P]
- Medium: 1 portfolio (76 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 28 x 35 cm.
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