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A photograph is of female prisoners, Ethel Habertheir and Opal Rhodes, from the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. Ethel Habertheir and Opal Rhodes were incarcerated for violations of Chapter 205 in 1921. Chapter 205 was a quarantine law that allowed the state to imprison women with venereal diseases.
Creator: Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women
Date: 1924
Item Number: 449771
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449771
Collections - Photograph - Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women
Date - 1920s - 1924
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Prisoners
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Corrections, Department of
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Industrial Farm for Women
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Negatives - Negative, Glass-plate
People - Criminals
People - Women
Type of Material - Photographs
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