Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in chains are working with hammers breaking stones on the side of the roadway, a guard in a jacket and trousers with a cane is watching over them from under a tree. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.

  • Régamey, Guillaume Urban, 1837-1875.
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[1876]
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37752i
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[London] : [Illustrated London News], [1876]

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 23.5 x 33.4 cm

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American sketches: Prison life in Blackwell's Island, New York - Outdoor work. Regamay.

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Wellcome Collection 37752i

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