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"Locked up in a cramped iron cage"

Jack Delano1940/1941

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – University Libraries

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – University Libraries
Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Arthur Franklin Raper, the creator of the collection in which this photograph appears, describes how "hardened criminals" at the Greene County prison camp were locked in a cramped iron cage every night. The photograph was taken by Jack Delano of the Farm Security Administration between 1940 and 1941.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – University Libraries

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