Documents Relative to the House of Refuge, Instituted

by the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York, in 1824 by Nathaniel C. Hart, Superintendent

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Lithographed frontispiece view and engraved portrait. 311, 1 pp. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Spine a bit darkened, one corner bumped. Sabin 30640. Item #323575 The New York House of Refuge, located on the Bowery, was the first juvenile reformatory in the United States, largely tasked with educating the growing city's immigrant and socio-economically disadvantaged populations for crimes such as petty larceny and

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