prisonsgaols
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Creator: Unidentified Location: St. Helena Island, Queensland Description: The tailors’ workshop where prison uniforms, police uniforms and any other necessary sewing was done by the convicts. Notice the tailors on the side benches are all sitting cross-legged with the material to be sewn lying across their knees. This was the position used by all tailors…
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Creator: Unidentified Location: Brisbane, Queensland Description: Boggo Road Gaol opened in 1883 as the Brisbane Gaol. Used mainly as a holding prison for those serving short sentences or on remand, its initial infamy came from it being a place of execution. See more boggoroadgaol.com/ View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://ift.tt/1LLguCL Information…
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