Women's Section at State Penitentiary ca. 1930s
This file appears in: Dr. Mary Latham, Greenwood Cemetery
New facility for women inmates of the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
Dr. Mary Latham served four years in the old facility, from 1905 to 1909.
Photo from a newspaper article, "Modern Building Houses Women Inmates at Pen"
The Spokane Chronicle, 18 July 1930.
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This file appears in: Dr. Mary Latham, Greenwood Cemetery
Dr. Mary Latham, Greenwood Cemetery
Dr. Mary Archard Latham, Spokane's pioneer female physician, is one of early Spokane's most colorful and controversial characters.
Latham graduated from medical school in 1886, at the age of 42, then moved to Spokane in 1887 to practice…