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almshouses and workhouses

Workhouse characters

By Margaret Wynne (Jones) Nevinson

Public poor relief in North Carolina

By Roy M. Brown

Directory of the charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions of the State of New York

By New York (State) Board of Charities.

Report on the chronic insane in certain counties, exempted by the State Board of Charities, from the operation of the Willard Asylum Act

By New York (State). Board of Charities. Committee on Insane Dept. of Poor-houses.

Workhouses and pauperism and women's work in the administration of the poor law

By Louisa Twining

A discourse delivered in the chapel of the new alms-house, in Portsmouth, N.H., Dec. XV. MDCCCXXXIV, on the occasion of its being first opened for religious services

By Charles Burroughs

Paupers in almshouses 1904

By United States. Bureau of the Census

Report of the Committee with papers submitted to the Committee

By Great Britain. Poor Law Board. Committee Appointed to Consider the Cubic Space of Metropolitan Workhouses.

The legacy of the rural guardians

By George Cuttle

Report of an examination of poor-houses, jails, &c., in the state of New-York, and in the counties of Berkshire, Massachusetts; Litchfield, Connecticut; and Bennington, Vermont, &c

By Samuel Chipman