- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Convicts with broken legs in casts in bunk-beds at Dallas, Georgia prison.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- O'Neal, Tracy
Hayes, Guy (Guy Dodd), 1913-1998 - Date of Original:
- 1941-04
- Subject:
- Crime
Imprisonment
Prisoners--Medical care
Prisoners - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Paulding County, 33.92055, -84.86729
United States, Georgia, Paulding County, Dallas, 33.92371, -84.84077 - Medium:
- photographic prints
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Convicts in prison uniforms. The image pictured here is from a photographic print in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. There are two copies of this image in two other collections: (1) a 4 x 5 inch negative in the Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection (N64-031_d), and (2) another print in the Stetson Kennedy Papers in the Southern Labor Archives (L1979-37/206). This AJC print was digitized in June 2010. The print caption identifies the photographer as Guy Hayes, whereas the other two images indicate that the photograph is the work of Tracy O'Neal. The print is stamped on the verso with the date of publication: "Apr 27, 1941." The newspaper caption is attached to the verso of the print: "Broken Legs and Broken Promises. These three youths who say they broke their legs to escape 'Beatings and hardships' at the Dallas 'Hell Hole Prison', admit that conditions have improved since Warden Q.E. Worthington took charge in February, but charge the warden broke his own promise of no brutality by whipping Morris Brown'"on general principles'. Left to right they are Buster Masters, 18, of Atlanta; Percy Mitchell, 21, of Macon, and Ed Pressley, 18, of Troup County. Other prisoners are high in their praise of the warden for allowing radios, mail and sale of luxuries within the camp for the first time. -- Journal Photos by Guy Hayes." The print in the Stetson Kennedy Papers is stamped on verso with studio stamp of Tracy O'Neal. A 1983-description of the print says that the verso is marked with a caption for the image. The caption is no longer present on the verso of the print: "These three Georgia lads hamstrung themselves by cutting the tendons of their own legs to avoid being sent out on convict road gangs."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/9
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:9/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCP551-05e, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive; Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection; Stetson Kennedy Papers
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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