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Prison Society Minutes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1785-1832
Meeting minutes and committee reports for the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Misery of Public Prisons, later known more simply as the Prison Society. The Society was a private charitable organization founded in 1787. Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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