The boy's pony
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814392
Item data
Title
The boy's pony
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
Punishments -- Flogging
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1874
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC PUNI-Flo
Subjects
Whipping
Punishment & torture
Punishment devices -- England -- London
Men -- England -- London
Coldbath Fields Prison (London, England)
whipping -- England -- London
Women -- England -- London
Genres
Notes
Content: Printed on border: "Sketches in the Clerkenwell House of Correction [London]." Printed text in part: "… the block, facetiously called 'the pony', upon which naughty boys are horsed for a birching. There is also a triangle
for tying up older persons who are to be flogged for willful misconduct while in prison …" Written on border: "June 27, 1874."
Source Note: Illustrated London news. (London : Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd., 1842-).
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17696953
Barcode: 33333159445242
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1874
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The boy's pony" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1874. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1874). The boy's pony Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The boy's pony" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13ff5b20-c562-012f-df3d-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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