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Eastern State Penitentiary : crucible of good intentions

Title
Eastern State Penitentiary : crucible of good intentions / Norman Johnston, with Kenneth Finkel and Jeffrey A. Cohen.
Author
Johnston, Norman Bruce, 1921-2012.
Publication
Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Eastern State Penitentiary Task Force of the Preservation Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Finkel, Kenneth.
  • Cohen, Jeffrey A., 1952-
  • Preservation Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. Eastern State Penitentiary Task Force.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Description
116 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
  • The massive Eastern State Penitentiary in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, now a National Historic Landmark, is remarkable for its innovative architecture and its pioneering system of isolation in individual cells. Heir to the energetic Quaker reformist tradition in Philadelphia in the 1820s, the penitentiary was a model of idealism in penal reform and a model of prison architecture for the world. About three hundred prisons worldwide trace their paternity to Eastern State Penitentiary.
  • This book shows how the novel experiment in prison reform contended with the realities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explores the legacy of this "crucible of good intentions."
Alternative Title
Crucible of good intentions
Subjects
Note
  • "... Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from July 16 to Sept. 11, 1994"--T.p. verso.
Contents
Preface / Anne d'Harnoncourt and Darrel Sewell -- I. Philadelphia in the 1820s: A New Civic Consciousness / Kenneth Finkel -- II. Reforming Criminals / Norman Johnston -- III. Building the Ideal Prison / Norman Johnston -- IV. Noble Ideas Collide with Reality / Norman Johnston -- V. Cherry Hill: Model for the World / Norman Johnston -- VI. Accommodation and Redefinition in the Twentieth Century / Jeffrey A. Cohen -- VII. The Legacy of Cherry Hill / Norman Johnston.
ISBN
087633091X
LCCN
94021485
OCLC
  • 30593926
  • ocm30593926
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries