East front elevation of prison

Title:: East front elevation of prison
Description:: East front elevation of prison. Shows Massachusetts State Prison building of 1826, and extension of 1850.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: 1851
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Prisons
Massachusetts State Prison
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Rutherford Avenue District
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: Reproduction of illustration on page 76 of "Sketches of Boston Past and Present" by J. Smith Homans, dedicated to Josiah Quincy, published by Crosby and Nichols, 1851. ..."A prisoner's mind (said the Directors of the state prison in 1815) ought to be reduced to a state of humiliation and discipline-" ... Contacts "with the world ought to be suppressed; except on the most urgent occasions-" ..."If the convict wishes to commune with the world, let him do it by reading moral books!-" ..."The prison should be considered as a world by itself, and its inhabitants know nothing of what is passing without its orbit-" ..."luxuries of all kinds ought to be withheld from him; newspapers, songs,
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Mr. Paul Swan
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-86-A4