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Summary

English: The Ducking-Stool.
Artist
Frank Hazenplug.
Title
English: The Ducking-Stool.
Description
English: An illustration of a cucking stool or ducking stool, a historical punishment for the common scold.
Date 1896
date QS:P571,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium drawing.
Inscriptions caption: "The Ducking-Stool".
Source/Photographer [1], from Alice Morse Earle ([198-]) Curious Punishments of Bygone Days [Project Gutenberg EBook #34005], Port Townsend, Wash.: Loompanics Unlimited, p. 11 ISBN: 978-0-915179-53-4. Originally published Chicago: H. S. Stone, 1896. Uploaded by Yomangani on 18 January 2007.
Other versions The Branks from Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (1896).jpg The Branks from Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (1896) - 02.jpg

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