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A photograph of female prisoners, Martha Grady and Nellie Bigloive, from the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. Martha Grady was incarcerated for a violation of Chapter 205 in 1924. Chapter 205 was a quarantine law that allowed the state to imprison women with venereal diseases. Nellie Bigloive was declared "dangerous, insane" and incarcerated in 1924.
Creator: Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women
Date: 1924
Item Number: 449782
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449782
Collections - Photograph - Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women
Date - 1920s - 1924
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Chapter 205
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Insanity
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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