Idaho Penitentiary Hospital circa 1912.
Source: John T. Richards (JTR) Collection.
I love this old photo postcard. It shows John W. Snook, Warden, and
D.W. Ackley, Assistant Warden. Another gentlemen is identified as the
"florist" but not named. May be a prison Trusty.
About all that remains of the
hospital is the foundation. It was damaged/destroyed in the 1971 riots
at before the old pen was closed down. Deputy Warden Ackley was a familiar
figure during the 1907 Haywood trial. He was a Prison Guard at the time and
one of Orchard's escorts to and from the Pen & Courthouse.
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