Collection of Thomas Mott Osborne Papers, 1915.

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Collection of Thomas Mott Osborne Papers, 1915.

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This collection includes a letter from Thomas Mott Osborne to Esther Morton Smith, a Germantown, Pennsylvania Quaker, turning down an invitation to speak on prison reform, and also several news clippings of photographs of Thomas Mott Osborne while he served as warden at Sing Sing prison.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Sing Sing Prison

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Smith, Esther Morton, 1865-1942

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Thomas Mott Osborne was active in the prison reform movement. He was born in Auburn, New York, in 1859, the son of David Munson and Eliza Wright Osborne. In 1886 he married Agnes Devens. From 1914-1916 he was warden of Sing Sing prison. He authored two books, Society and Prisons and Prisons and Common Sense. Thomas Mott Osborne died in 1926. From the description of Collection of Thomas Mott Osborne Papers, 1915. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31492804 ...

Osborne, Thomas Mott, 1859-1926

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