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Two boys working as cobblers. One files the sole of a shoe. The other holds a hammer and last upright and smiles.
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Title: Two Cobblers In An Asylum
From: Photographs Of Inmates Of The Imbecile Asylum
Creator: Joseph Parrish (photographer)
Date: 1886
Format: Photograph
Source: National Library of Medicine, Prints and Photographs
Control no.: WM P575 1886
Location: p.29
Keywords: Asylums; Cognitive Disability; Confinement; Hospitals; Imbecility; Institutions; Mental Retardation; Portrait; Work
Topics: n/a


Objects From This Artifact:
- Three Male Asylum Inmates (still)
- Two Cobblers In An Asylum (still)
- Two Female Asylum Inmates (still)
- Two Male Asylum Inmates (still)