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Title: Western House of Refuge, Rochester, N.Y
Creator: Mensing & Stecher, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1877
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an elevated view of Western House of Refuge, a detention facility for the confinement and reform of juveniles in Rochester, New York; buildings (including hospital and workshops) and central yard surrounded by a 22-foot wall at center; horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians visible in foreground; descriptions of buildings and grounds in bottom margin.
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Mensing & Stecher operated under the secondary name Lithographic & Chromo Co. from 1877 until 1887, when Stecher took control of the company. "Lithographic & Chromo Co. of Rochester, N.Y."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 46.99 x 64.77 cm (18 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_POL_004427
494101
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4292
Language: English
Subject: Correctional institutions--Pictorial works
Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works
Juvenile detention homes--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
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Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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