#historical workers

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“the labor of the island.”

RANDALL’S ISLAND HOUSE OF REFUGE

Personnel Archive — Labor, Instruction, & Institutional Trades, 1897.

teachers, ferrymen, dock workers, machinists, blacksmiths, physicians, morticians. the people who kept the island functioning—its classrooms, workshops, infirmaries, ferries, kitchens, gardens, furnaces, & graves.

burn high your fires.