Image of John L. Whitman, superintendent of prisons, standing at the Bridewell Prison stone quarries with a line of men pushing wheelbarrows along a dirt ramp in back of him and down in a quarry pit. The quarries were located at South California Avenue and West 26th Street, in the Little Village community area in Chicago, Illinois and city buildings and rooftops can be seen in the background.
Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
