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Jails

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Prisons
Correctional institutions

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  • Images from the collections
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Images from the collections

Images about Jails

2 images from works
  • Kuching, Sarawak: a square-towered building and the jail. Photograph.
  • Saint Peter appearing to Saint Agatha in prison. Engraving by Salvardi.

Works from the collections

4 works

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    • Online

    A manual of jail hygiene for the use of medical subordinates / by W. J. Buchanan.

    Buchanan, W. J. | Date: 1900
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Kuching, Sarawak: a square-towered building and the jail. Photograph.

    | Reference: 30156i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Saint Peter appearing to Saint Agatha in prison. Engraving by Salvardi.

    Salvardi. | Date: [1---] | Reference: 749958i
    • Ephemera

    To purify close infected places, as goals, hospitals, & c. communicated to the committee appointed to superintend the [Maidstone] Gaol / [Thomas Day].

    Day, Thomas, 1749 or 1750-1818. | Date: [1784?]

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