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19th Century Prison Reform Collection

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A brief account of the construction, management, and discipline &c. &c. of the New-York State Prison at Auburn

About this collection

This collection contains approximately 450 digitized documents from the Enos Thompson Throop Papers that chronicle the emergence of the Auburn Prison System. These materials were selected by Katherine Thorsteinston, PhD 2019, as part of a grant project.

Historical context

Dr. Thorsteinson wrote an introduction to the history of the Auburn Prison System as part of the digitization project that developed this digital collection.

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For more information about this collection, contact rareref@cornell.edu.

More information

Collection steward
Katherine Reagan, Ernest L. Stern '56 Curator or Rare Books & Manuscripts
Metadata creation
Cornell University Library
Funding
Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, awarded to Katherine Thorsteinson, PhD 2019, in 2017.
Credits
This landing page was last reviewed in 2025.
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