Convict Department - Separate Prison Reports, 1867-1871
Convict Department - Separate Prison Reports, 1867-1871
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1867-1871
Call Numbers
B 5
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Physical Description
Contents
1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 4984, frames 1-105
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1 October 1867 - 4 July 1871; Each page is headed with the name of a convict and the ship he arrived on. Beneath this are entries in columns under the titles of Week ending, Employment, Class, Amount of Work performed, Conduct, Industry, Signature of Officer in Charge (A.W., John Cassidy, M. McCarthy, and P.M. Guinness), and earnings letter.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Convict Department - Separate Prison Reports, 1867-1871
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Pages are ruled into columns and rows of a table and an account book.
Some entries note, "Discharge to Hobart Town", implying that the prison is elsewhere in Tasmania.
There are pin holes evident in the pages indicating that there were additional notes and papers.
Volume was bound in July 1933.
David Scott Mitchell bookplate inside fron...
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled from handwritten inscription on paper plate affixed to front endpaper of volume, "No.38 / Separate Prison. / Men under strict separate / treatment confined in / the Separate Prison.- / October 1867-"
Embossed on spine, "Convicts / Separate / Prison / Reports / 1867-71"
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
Administrative / Biographical history
The Separate Prison was located in the colonial penal establishment at Port Arthur, Tasmania. It opened in 1849 and provided the most severe measures of punishment. Here, constant surveillance, solitary confinement and silence were considered the way to reform. The building was a small modified version of the Pentonville Prison in London. It con...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
B 5
Record Identifier
n88E66Ln
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88E66Ln
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Reference code
442932
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