1853-03-26
Prints: Charlestown, Mass.
GUSN-196807
From Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, with an article entitled "The Massachusetts State Prison." Shows prisoners making whips and cabinets as part of the internal economy of the prison.
state prisons (buildings)
cabinetmaking
whips (animal equipment)
departments (organizational units)
interior views
prisoners
prints (visual works)
DigitalID 001669
AccessID 3612
Other identifier HNEDID-001669
1 newspaper sheet
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1922-04-21
GC002.01.MA.4200.004
Gift
14.5 x 10.5 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Mr. L.W. Jenkins, 1922
Charlestown (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Brown, Samuel E., d. ca. 1860 (Engraver)
Gleason's Pictorial (Publisher)
prints (visual works)
Item
Prints: Charlestown, Mass.
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