Sprays from the Sound -- Vol. 2, No. 5 The interests of the Reformatory and Branch Workhouse, Hart's Island

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Vol. 2, No. 5 of "Sprays from the Sound", a serial published for and "devoted to the interests of the Reformatory and Branch Workhouse, Hart's Island". The workhouse was for boys, and was affiliated with the prison on Blackwell Island. This issue features articles on imprisonment, natural history, local events, verse, and morality (e.g. pro-Temperance). Includes a census of the island's residents as of April 1891, as well as a count of how many people were buried on the island in the second half of April, and a list of the staff and employees of the workhouse. Folio (12" by 9.5"), pp. 8, unbound as issued. Hart's Island was the site of several different workhouses and prison facilities over the years, and was also used as a quarantine location for the diseased. Most recently, Hart's Island was used as a temporary burial site for unclaimed victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. Very good to near-fine. Minor toning, spotting, the occasional tiny short tear. N° de ref. del artículo 23000736

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