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Title
Potter's Field (Hart Island) Burial Record
Description
After a variety of uses, this small island in Long Island Sound first was used as a mass cemetery following the Civil War. It quickly became a burial ground for New York's indigent, then its uses expanded rapidly: a quarantine area during times of pandemic, a psychiatric hospital, a boy's workhouse, a prison...anyone the troubled the city with their visibility.
This image is in OpenValley to show a single page from the records of its mass burials, here covering the months of July-December 1935. In its columns listing cause of death, several show the initials "TB"--that is, tuberculosis. Hart's Island had a tubercularium dating to the 1880s, and it also interred people who had died of the disease in other hospitals.
The Federal Art Project lithographer David Burke situated one of his works at Hart Island: He Calleth His Own By Name--Potter's Fields (1935-42).
This image is in OpenValley to show a single page from the records of its mass burials, here covering the months of July-December 1935. In its columns listing cause of death, several show the initials "TB"--that is, tuberculosis. Hart's Island had a tubercularium dating to the 1880s, and it also interred people who had died of the disease in other hospitals.
The Federal Art Project lithographer David Burke situated one of his works at Hart Island: He Calleth His Own By Name--Potter's Fields (1935-42).
Publisher
Department of Corrections, City of New York
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Original Format
Microfilm negative of record book