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The Louisiana State Capitol building / CU an unidentified man on bridge / CU a bullwhip in his hand / he throws the whip off the bridge and into water / white men in horizontal-striped convict uniforms look at a small notice on a bulletin board /CU the notice, a caricature of a man with a whip, another stopping the assault, and a prisoner on his hands and knees / Outside, four men, with two in straw hats, look over the notice / African-Americans working on a railroad at right; one prisoner is thrown to the ground by others, and his shirt is pulled up / The African-American overseer raises a large leather strap / overseer flails the strap as he hits the unseen prisoner / guard in watchtower looks on as an African-American prisoner is handcuffed to a chain link fence / CU the bound man / A guard puts a man in a concrete sweatbox / VS a large farm area with a guard holding up a small potato, prisoners working field in bkgd / two Black men stooping down and planting vegetables / Mules pull plows as an overseer watches / A line of men using hoes to chop at grass / Two men working between rows of sugarcane / A brick building with 'Receiving Station' lettering on front / A man in an office speaks with a white prisoner holding a straw hat / VS white prisoners at tables eating / numerous plates of food with eggs, bread, cheese, and pie / CU white prisoners eating / building, with 'General Hospital' written on front and with bars on the windows, behind a barbed wire fence / A dentist treats a Black man seated in a dental chair / surgeons during an operation / A guard in a watch tower holds a rifle, prisoners lined up and going into a building in bkgd below him / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete