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ALSTON, FELIX, [WARDEN, WYOMING STATE PENITENTIARY, RAWLINS, WYOMING]Biblio.com

WANTED POSTER - ESCAPED CONVICTS WANTED! $300.00 IN REWARDS WILL BE PAID FOR THE ARREST AND DETENTION OF THESE FIVE MEN

1912réf. 51631Rawlins Wyoming: Privately printed by Felix Alston Warden Wyoming State Penitentiary October 12 1912. 1912. WYOMING OUTLAWS. First edition. An unusual 8 1/2" x 6" four-page escape bulletin that provides detailed physical description a photograph and exact reward amount for each of the five escapees. Rare 4-page WANTED! circular issued by Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins dated October 12 1912 offering $300 in reward money for the capture and detention of five escaped convicts at least one of whom was an associate of the infamous Whitney Gang with price breakdowns provided for each convict if captured separately. Wyoming WANTED! circulars are uncommon at this date. The five wanted escapees Bert Dalton Joe Turner Roy Smith George Wilson and Lawrence Williams were part of a group of twenty convicts who escaped from the Wyoming State Penitentiary’s stockade on October 12 1912. The escapees terrorized the townspeople of Rawlins as they fled to the hills. Several citizens were injured; one was killed. Wyoming Governor Cory sent state militia in to assist local armed posse in the manhunt. Within days nine of the nineteen escapees were caught but Bert Dalton was not. Dalton was a drifter sheepherder bank robber and convicted murderer associated with the Whitney brothers. It was Dalton who had engineered the spectacular Rawlins prison break and had assumed the leadership of the convicts who were still hiding out in the hills around Rawlins. He remained on the loose for two and one-half months and was finally captured at Big Piney Wyoming clad only in his under-clothes after being pursued through deep snow all night. Felix Alston the warden of the Rawlins Penitentiary at the time was well known for his passion for baseball and forcing prisoners who were good ballplayers to play promising them special treatment as long as the prison team kept winning. On page four is the good warden’s message: "Hold and notify me by telephone or telegraph at my expense when an officer with necessary papers will be sent." Two faint horizontal folds else a fine copy of a rare four-page reward poster. Privately printed by Felix Alston, Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary, October 12, 1912. hardcover

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Wall, arch, dome: Byzantine Istanbul in the eyes of Ottoman photographers.= Sur, kemer, kubbe: Osmanli fotografçilarinin gözüyle Bizans Istanbulu. [Exhibition catalogue]. Text: Samih Rifat.

2007New English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (28 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 172 p., color and b/w ills. Wall, arch, dome: Byzantine Istanbul in the eyes of Ottoman photographers.= Sur, kemer, kubbe: Osmanli fotografçilarinin gözüyle Bizans Istanbulu. [Exhibition catalogue]. Text: Samih Rifat. One of the most outstanding characteristics of Istanbul's Byzan-tine monuments, as captured by Ottoman photographers, is their role as priceless documents in the city's history. The period between the second half of the 19th century and the turn of the 20th century is marked by profound changes in Istanbul with respect to urban structure, historical texture and monuments. A careful eye readily notices the considerable transformations spread over a hundred, hundred and fifty years in Istanbul city walls, Galata Tower, Hagia Sophia and the Hippodrome area. These photographs are replete with valuable clues for today's researchers, restorers, architectures and urban planners. Nonetheless, there is something beyond the obvious in these images: Istanbul's remaining city walls, arches, and domes of a far away past continue to survive in another form of existence in these old photographs, which reflect an age closer to us in time, yet just as rapidly vanished. The discolored surfaces permeating an indescribable sense of the old add another layer, another epoch to the historical richness of the city. Comprised of a selection from the Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation Old Istanbul Photographs Collection, Wall Arch Dome ventures us into a journey in the same milieu and in a different time dimension. Yet, on this occasion, we find ourselves in an Istanbul more ancient, more distant than the Republican or Ottoman days; it is a Byzantine Istanbul of monuments, ruins and almost imperceptible traces from thousands of years past.

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