Please take the time to visit our sister project, Incorrigibles. The Prison Public Memory Project started out working with communities to unearth the history of local prisons, to imagine what...
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![Josephine Shaw Lowell and House of Refuge for Women (1887 – 1904) Josephine Shaw Lowell and House of Refuge for Women (1887 – 1904)](https://prisonpublicmemory.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lowell-josephine-shaw_-e1411592667878-290x290.jpg)
Josephine Shaw Lowell and House of Refuge for Women (1887 – 1904)
In the midst of the nation’s first great depression that began in 1873 with the collapse of the New York City financial markets, the House of Refuge for Women was built...
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![House of Refuge for Women Founder Inspires New York City’s First Monument Dedicated to a Woman House of Refuge for Women Founder Inspires New York City’s First Monument Dedicated to a Woman](https://prisonpublicmemory.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3966_1934-09-14_Bryant-Park-opening-dedication-WEB_-290x290.jpg)
House of Refuge for Women Founder Inspires New York City’s First Monument Dedicated to a Woman
As told by Joan Waugh in her book on the life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Unsentimental Reformer,Harvard University Press, 1997): At noon on May 22, 1912, a granite fountain designed...
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![“The Dungeons Are Damp and Cold…” “The Dungeons Are Damp and Cold…”](https://prisonpublicmemory.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/HouseOfRefugeReport-290x290.jpg)
“The Dungeons Are Damp and Cold…”
A Board of Managers comprised of prominent citizens from throughout the State appointed by the Governor controlled the New York State House of Refuge for Women. Every year, the Board...
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