Convict Department - Separate Prison Reports, 1876-1877
Convict Department - Separate Prison Reports, 1876-1877
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1876-1877
Call Numbers
B 7
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Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 volume - 0.04 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 4985, frames 1-210
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More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
18 April 1876 - 15 March 1877; Records the findings of the night duty officer at Separate Prison with a date for each entry. The contents includes the state of the watch clock, cells and prison, supplying the prisoners with their regulation rations, divine service, people who visited the prison, and general items of note relating to the daily ope...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Convict Department - Separate Prison Reports, 1876-1877
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Volume was bound in July 1933.
David Scott Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
Signature / Inscriptions
Embossed on spine, "Convicts / Separate / Prison / Reports / 1876-7"
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 cont...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
B 7
Record Identifier
nvg8EE81
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nvg8EE81
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Reference code
442942
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