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Deer Island Hospital, Boston Harbor

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1856

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Boston Harbor Islands

GUSN

GUSN-198448

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Description

This item consists of two pages of newspaper sheets picturing the hospital grounds of Deer Island Hospital. It includes smaller interior settings depicting life inside the state hospital. The second sheet depicts images of a prison.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hospitals (buildings for health facility)
peninsulas
harbors
prisons (buildings)
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravers Collection Number PR109

Physical Description

1 newspaper print

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Reference Code

GC002.01.MA.2250.005

Image Dimensions

13.5 x 10.5 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Boston Harbor (Massachusetts) [harbor]
Deer Island (Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [peninsula]

Record Details

Originator

Hill, A. (Delineator)
Peirce, Joshua H., 1812-1869 (Engraver)
Ballou's Pictorial (Publisher)

Material Type

prints (visual works)

Other Organizations

Deer Island Hospital

Restrictions

Fair

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Boston Harbor Islands

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