Investigating 19th-Century Criminal Enterprise on WHYY

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Black and white print with the label "Rat Pit." A group of men surround a pit and watch a dog chase rats. The dog holds one rat in its mouth. A man stands in the pit with the dog.Curator Wendy Woloson talks with WHYY’s Peter Crimins about the Library Company’s current exhibition “Capitalism by Gaslight: The Shadow Economies of 19th-Century America.”


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