Prisoners

Scope and Contents This collection includes several cartoons drawn by Clyde W. Lamb. Three cartoons feature soldiers and one mentions "Kokomo Slim" and Indiana, so it is assumed they were drawn while incarcerated at Indiana's state prison in the 1940s. The collection also has a copy of a four-panel comic strip with Lamb's typical male character drawn with a bulbous nose.

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs, most likely from the Indiana Department of Correction, in Indiana ranging from circa 1930 to circa 1955, regarding buildings, facilities, prisoners, corrections staff and administration, and prison life in Indiana State Prison in Michigan City; Indiana Reformatory in Jeffersonville; Indiana State Farm in Putnam County; Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis; and unidentified prisons. Most of the photographs appear to have come from a...

Scope and Contents This collection includes one undated petition to Governor Joseph A. Wright with 22 signees for the release of William Dettrow, a prisoner at the Indiana State Prison. The document includes two notes, one from the presiding judge of the case, James W. Bordon, and the other from Epy Dettrow, wife of the prisoner, both suggesting that Dettrow deserved earn his freedom. Among the signees are judges and jurors from Dettrow’s case, as well as John Studebaker, the father of the co-founder of the...