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• Amalgamation of unions and the union industrial schools (Printed at the University Press, 1873), by H. J. Gill (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Care of aged persons in the United States ... October, 1929. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1929), by Florence Evelyn Parker, Mary Katharine Conyngton, and Estelle M. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The almshouse, construction and management (Charities Publication Committee, 1911), by Alexander Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paupers in almshouses 1910. (Govt. print. off., 1915), by United States Bureau of the Census, E. A. Goldenweiser, Lewis Meriam, and Joseph A. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gallows : the prison, and the poor-house. (G. W. Quinby, 1856), by G. W. Quinby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paupers in almshouses 1904. (G.P.O., 1906), by United States Bureau of the Census, William Alexander King, and John Koren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English houses of alms : a pictorial record with architectural and historical notes (F. Griffiths, 1910), by Sidney Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hospitals and almshouses of London. (London General Omnibus, 1920), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report of the Governors of the Alms House, New York, for the year ... (New York : Governors of the Alms House, 1849), by Almshouse of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gallows, the prison, and the poor-house : a plea for humanity, showing the demands of Christianity in behalf of the criminal and perishing classes (G.W. Quinby, 1860), by G. W. Quinby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charitable and parochial establishments (B.T. Batsford, 1881), by Henry Saxon Snell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The almshouse ... (n.p., 1900), by Mary Vida Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De gli hospitali che furno fabricati in Milano (Per Gratiadio Ferioli, ad instanza di Antonio de gli Antonij, 1599), by Paolo Morigia, Giovanni Antonio de' Antoni, and Graziadio Ferioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of the Hospital of St. Cross and Alms House of Noble Poverty (Winchester [England] : William Savage, photographic publisher, High Street ; London : Messrs. Parker & Co., 377, Strand, MDCCCLXVIII [1868], 1868), by L. M. Humbert and William Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'assistance en province, spécialement de la menicité & des depots de menicité : reponse au questionnaire officiel. (Paris, 1874), by Frédéric Jean Jacques Peau-Saint-Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Superintendent of Almshouse 1904 ([s.n.], 1904), by N.Y.) Albany County Almshouse (Albany County (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the committee appointed by the Board of Guardians of the Poor of the city and districts of Philadelphia, to visit the cities of Baltimore, New York, Providence, Boston and Salem (Printed by Samuel Parker, 1827), by Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bestuurlijke verslagen ... (Anvers, Belgium : Jean Van Ael, 19uu-, in the 20th century), by Antwerp. Bestuur der burgerlijke godshuizen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada our association is advocating certain measures which, if adopted, will relieve the counties of quite a financial burden .. (s.n., 1896), by Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)

• Study of a group of almshouses in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania (New York, 1927), by National Civic Federation. Woman's Department, Maude A. K. Wetmore, and Estelle M. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• A model of government for the good of the poor, and the wealth of the nation with such a method and inspection that frauds, corruption in officers, abuses to the poor, ill administration of materials, &c. therein may be prevented : the stock rais'd and preserved, all poor people and their children for ever comfortably provided for, all idle hands employed, all oppressed parishes eased, all beggars and vagrants for the future restrained, poor prisoners for debt relieved and malefactors reclaimed, to their own comfort, God's glory and the kingdoms wealth and honour : humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, viz. His Most Excellent Majesty and both houses of Parliament / by R. Haines ... (London : Printed for D.M., 1678), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Old English houses of alms : a pictorial record with architectural and historical notes (F. Griffiths, 1910), by Sidney Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Printing trade charities (W.H. Allen & Co., 1883), by James Shirley Hodson, Spottiswoode & Co, and W.H. Allen & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals for building, in every county, a working-almshouse or hospital as the best expedient to perfect the trade and manufactory of linnen-cloth (London : Printed by W.G. for R. Harford ..., 1677), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• England's weal & prosperity proposed, or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county for the speedy promoting of industry and the woollen manufactory, shewing how the wealth of the nation may be encreased, many hundred thousand pounds per annum, and also that many thousand persons may be so reformed, to their own and the whole kingdoms present and future wealth and glory, that there may no more be a beggar bred up in the nation : humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, and presented to the Honourable House of Commons / by R. Haines ; to which is added a model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) ; intended to have been presented to the last Parliament, pursuant to a breviate of proposals for the promoting of industry, and speedy restoring the woollen manufactory, by him formerly published. (London : Printed for Langley Curtis ..., 1681), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Public General Acts. 1695-1696 7 & 8 Gul.III.c.32 (London : printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, MDCXCVI. [1696]), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Orders and rules appointed by the last will and testament of Sir Thomas Holt, knight and baronet to be observed in the electing, and after the election, of the ten poore persons inhabiting in his almshouse at Aston Juxta Birmingham in the county of Warwick, with the assent and assistance of Dame Anne Holt, the relict of the said Sir Thomas Holt, and of Sir Robert Holt baronet, his grand-son, and his heires males. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year, 1656), by Thomas Holt, Robert Holt, and Anne Holt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An account of a new poor-house, erected in the parish of Boldre, in New Forest, near Lymington. (Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, --1797), by William Gilpin (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• The trumpet in the dust, by Constance Holme (Gutenberg ebook)
• Brother Copas, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)

• Della carità ospitaliera in Toscana : studi documentati e proposte col confronto dei sistemi altrove in uso e specialmente nelle altre provincie d'Italia, nella Francia e nella inghilterra. (F. Bencini, 1864), by Ottavio Andreucci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Uebersicht der neuen Armenpflege in der Stadt Keil : auf Sr. Königl. Hoheit des Kronprinzen Befehl (Kaven, 1798), by August Niemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die juristische Natur der auf Grund des Unterstützungswohnsitzgesetzes vom 6. Juni 1870 gewährten Hilfeleistung (J. Abel, 1900), by Ernst Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Hungersnot in unsern Grossstädten und wie diese Quelle der verbrechen Verstopfen kann (Volksvereins-verlag gmbh, 1914), by Peter Bonn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
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• An inquiry into the workhouse system and the law of maintenance in agricultural districts. (For J. Hatchard and Son, London, 1820), by C. D. Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, its establishment and regulations : with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view (Printed by J. and W. Eddowes, 1795), by Isaac Wood and John Howlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor; setting forth the rules by which they are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected. As also of several charity-schools for promoting work, and labour. (J. Downing, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor : setting forth rules by which theu are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected, as also of several charity schools for promoting work, and labor. (J. Downing, 1732) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della carità ospitaliera in Toscana : studi documentati e proposte col confronto dei sistemi altrove in uso e specialmente nelle altre provincie d'Italia, nella Francia e nella inghilterra. (F. Bencini, 1864), by Ottavio Andreucci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of workhouse visiting and management during twenty-five years (C.K. Paul, 1880), by Louisa Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workhouses and pauperism and women's work in the administration of the poor law. (Methuen & co., 1898), by Louisa Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bread for the poor, or, Observations upon certain proposals lately offered to the Kings Majesty and both Houses of Parliament with some additional considerations tending to inriching of the nation ... : whereby all poor people, women and children from five years old may be comfortably employ'd to get their own livings, beggars and vagrants restrain'd, the parish charges for the poor lightned, and consequently your lands improved, rents raised ... and tradesmen encouraged, and many hundred thousand pounds a year kept at home which now goes out of the kingdom to French and other forraign commodities / by Philo-Anglicus. (London : Printed for D.M., 1678), by Philo-Anglicus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Indiana county homes and their adaptations to present conditions (Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1948), by Lynn Robertson, J. B. Kohlmeyer, and James Edwin Losey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Della carità ospitaliera in Toscana : studi documentati e proposte col confronto dei sistemi altrove in uso e specialmente nelle altre provincie d'Italia, nella Francia e nella inghilterra. (F. Bencini, 1864), by Ottavio Andreucci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sheer Off: A Tale, by A. L. O. E. (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jed, the Poorhouse Boy, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Polly and the Princess, by Emma C. Dowd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Maggie's pictures, or, The great life told to a child (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876), by Fanny Levien (page images at Florida)
• Daddy Darwin's dovecot (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885), by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (page images at Florida)

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