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Prison treadmills
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Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.
Reference: 37768i
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Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899]Reference: 663427i
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A letter on the nature and effects of the tread-wheel, as an instrument of prison labour and punishment, addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Peel ... / with an appendix of notes and cases. [By J.I. Brisco] by one of his constituents, and a magistrate of the county of Surrey.
Briscoe, John Ivatt, 1791-1870.Date: 1824
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A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 37843i
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Thoughts on prison labour, &c. &c. ... / by a student of the Inner Temple.
Student of the Inner Temple.Date: 1824