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Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.

A letter to J.H. Wilkins, H.B. Rogers, and F.B. Fay, Commissioners of Massachusetts for the State Reform School for Girls / by S.G. Howe.

Convicts, codes, and contraband : the prison life of men and women / Vergil L. Williams, Mary Fish.

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Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.

A letter to J.H. Wilkins, H.B. Rogers, and F.B. Fay, Commissioners of Massachusetts for the State Reform School for Girls / by S.G. Howe.

Convicts, codes, and contraband : the prison life of men and women / Vergil L. Williams, Mary Fish.