Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York / Stacy Horn.
Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York / Stacy Horn.
Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York / Stacy Horn.
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
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G 2018/6415
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xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
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unmediated
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volume
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I: The New York City Lunatic Asylum: opened on Blackwell's Island 1839, to accommodate New York City's lunatic poor. Reverend William Glenney French: the Blackwell's Island Episcopal missionary from 1872 to 1895 ; Sister Mary Stanislaus: committed to the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island August 3...
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
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First edition.
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North Carolina
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2018.
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Roosevelt Island is a two-mile stretch of land in New York's East River. In the past, it was Blackwell's Island: site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility it became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, 'a lounging, listless madhouse.' Through t...
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Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York / Stacy Horn.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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G 2018/6415
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74VKVQWZ4N0d
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1616205768 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781616205768 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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362.21097471
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991024197287502626
