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The Almshouse experience; collected reports.
LIBRA HV91 .A58 1971
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Poverty U.S.A.
- Poverty, U.S.A.: the historical record
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Almshouses--United States.
- Almshouses.
- Poor.
- United States.
- Poor--Massachusetts.
- Public welfare--New York (State).
- Public welfare.
- New York (State).
- Massachusetts.
- Physical Description:
- 38, 36, 937-1145 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Arno Press, 1971.
- Notes:
- Reprint of Report of the committee appointed by the Board of Guardians of the Poor of the City and Districts of Philadelphia to visit the cities of Baltimore, New York, Providence, Boston, and Salem (published in 1827); Report of the Massachusetts General Court's Committee on Pauper Laws (published in 1821); and the 1824 Report of the New York Secretary of State on the relief and settlement of the poor (from the 24th annual report of the New York State Board of Charities, 1901)
- Contains:
- Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Pauper Laws. Report. 1971.
- New York (State). Secretary's Office. Report of the Secretary of State in 1824 on the relief and settlement of the poor. 1971.
- ISBN:
- 0405030924
- OCLC:
- 155835
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