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Prisoners: photograph album. Digital copies of Victorian prisoners photograph albums...
Catalogue reference: PCOM 2/291
What’s it about?
This record is about the Prisoners: photograph album. Digital copies of Victorian prisoners photograph albums... dating from 1873 Apr-1873 Sept in the series Home Office and Prison Commission: Prisons Records, Series 1. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PCOM 2/291
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1873 Apr-1873 Sept
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoners: photograph album.
Digital copies of Victorian prisoners’ photograph albums 1872-1873 (PCOM 2/290-291) can be searched and downloaded.
Folios 94-95, 140-143, 254-255 and 284-287 have been damaged or removed and names and photographs are not available for those pages.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Prisons
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1193589/
Series information
PCOM 2
Home Office and Prison Commission: Prisons Records, Series 1
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
23,253 records
Within the department: PCOM
Records created or inherited by the Prison Commission and Home Office Prison Department
1,170 records
Within the series: PCOM 2
Home Office and Prison Commission: Prisons Records, Series 1
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