A few more pics and post cards deleted from the unarchived items at the end bottom of the blog and brought up here.
The entrance gate on Warm Springs Road (now Avenue) to the Idaho Penitentiary. The stone gate was disassembled/cut into pieces and remains in storage at the old pen. The goal is to eventually raise the necessary funds for reconstruction at a yet to be determined time and location on the grounds.
On the back:: "This is the Gate-Way to where we keep the Wild Colo Boys when they get to (sic) mean to live in the hills and this is also where Moryar (sic), Haywood & Pettibone lived while they made a visit to this town."
This is a real photo card picture taken down Warm Springs Avenue in Boise toward the Idaho Pen Entrance. In the far distance we see the penitentiary gate shown below in the picture with Harry Orchard. Can anyone give me more information on this shot? I assume it is taken from the direction of Boise and the bluff we see in the far horizon is part of Table Rock?
Harry, "behind bars" at the Idaho Pen.
From a Life Magazine, March 13, 1950 in my collection.
ALMOST FREE...but never going to happen. Click the image for a clearer reading view.
This letter was written by Harry Orchard to Charles "Peter" Steunenberg.
Pete would have preferred to see Orchard swinging from a rope but he
did continue to oppose any commutation of the sentence. Letter courtesy
of College of Idaho archives.
More...
Old Idaho State Penitentiary
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