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This collection includes six copies of an typed transcript of an essay titled, "Some Account of the Origin and Conduct of the Woman's Prison and Girls' Reformatory at Indianapolis, Indiana," written by Rhoda M. Coffin on February 14, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois. The article discusses Coffin and her husband's experience visiting jails, workhouses, and prisons thorughout the United States and her involvement with the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, which became the Indiana...
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