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Workhouse, Blackwells Island, New York, USA
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Workhouse, Blackwells Island, New York, USA
The workhouse on Blackwells Island, New York, USA. The workhouse provided a punitive regime for petty offenders who were required to labour during their stay. The island, alternatively known as Welfare Island and Roosevelt Island, also housed a penitentiary, a poorhouse, a city hospital, a smallpox hospital, and the New York Lunatic Asylum. View from the Queensborough Bridge with Midtown New York in the distance. Date: circa 1910s
Media ID 23036332
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
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