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Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-.

Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.

Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.

A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint.

A letter on the nature and effects of the tread-wheel, as an instrument of prison labour and punishment, addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Peel ... / with an appendix of notes and cases. [By J.I. Brisco] by one of his constituents, and a magistrate of the county of Surrey.

Thoughts on prison labour, &c. &c. ... / by a student of the Inner Temple.

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Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.

Rangoon, Burma: prisoners working a treadmill in jail. Photograph by Watts & Skeen, 189-.

A letter on the nature and effects of the tread-wheel, as an instrument of prison labour and punishment, addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Peel ... / with an appendix of notes and cases. [By J.I. Brisco] by one of his constituents, and a magistrate of the county of Surrey.

A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint.

Thoughts on prison labour, &c. &c. ... / by a student of the Inner Temple.