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.
    Date:
    [1876]
    Reference:
    37752i
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    Licence: Public Domain Mark

    Credit: 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. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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