Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth
Abstract:
This series contains reports to the board of directors; administrative and budget files; correspondence; program proposals; and Berkshire Farm training manuals, policies, and procedures. A description and history of two radio series are also included..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth
Abstract:
This series includes an assortment of Berkshire Farm Center publications and ephemera..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of Correction
Abstract:
This series consists primarily of microfilmed case records for approximately 3,000 incarcerated males, aged sixteen to twenty years old, processed through the Elmira Reception Center from 1945-1965. The case files represent a ten percent random stratified sample of all individuals processed through .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of Children and Family Services. Executive Office
Title:
Series:
19652
Dates:
1984-2007
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of outgoing correspondence of Office of Children and Family Services Executive Directors and Executive Deputy Commissioners; copies of original, incoming correspondence are often attached. The correspondence covers a wide range of subjects relating to the administration .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Western House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents (Rochester, N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of contractual agreements between reformatory managers, inmates, and employers (or "masters") to bind out inmates for vocational training until the age of twenty-one. In return for the inmate's labor, the master agreed to provide the inmate with clothing, room and board, medical .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Industrial School
Abstract:
This series consists of journals, or diaries containing brief daily entries. Typical daily entries may include information about inmate admissions and discharges; inmate escapes; institution population counts; holiday events; Board of Managers meetings; Board of Managers attendance at Sunday service; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
This series consists of memoranda directing staff to carry out specific assignments or to follow general regulations with regard to treatment and discipline of inmates; daily routines and procedures; repairs to buildings and facilities; arrangements for special events; scheduling and conduct of religious .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
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Series:
A1906
Dates:
1849-1939
Abstract:
The Western House of Refuge was established as the first state reformatory in the nation by the New York State Legislature in 1846. The institution's name was changed to the New York State Industrial School in 1886 and New York State Agricultural and Industrial School in 1907. This series contains basic .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Industrial School
Abstract:
This series contains lists of inmates returned to the institution after violating parole, escaping, or committing a new offense. Information may include date returned or paroled; inmate name and number; date admitted and/or time spent in the institution; cause of return; religious affiliation; and a .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
This series consists of annual lists of inmates present or on parole from the State Agricultural and Industrial School. These lists were used to compile statistics on inmates present, paroled, or escaped, for the institution's annual reports. Information includes admission date or date returned from .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
These photographs depict the New York State Agricultural and Industrial School's new facility at Industry, New York. The photographs, mostly mounted, provide views of: annual fairs; farm land; grounds; interiors of buildings; inmates, school officers and visitors; and physical facilities. A few of these .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
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Series:
A1976
Dates:
1898-1911
Abstract:
This series contains correspondence with the Protestant Parole Agent relating to transfer of inmates to other institutions; attempts to locate escaped inmates or parole offenders; rewards for capture of escapees; home conditions, employment, behavior, and prospects of paroled inmates; and a few letters .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
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Series:
A2054
Dates:
1825-1841, 1844-1935
Abstract:
The superintendent's daily log of events includes information on admission of inmates ( name, age, and committing agency); discharge or indenture of inmates (name, occupation, and residence of inmate's master or person to whom inmate was discharged); inmate deaths and escapes; purchase of supplies; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York House of Refuge
Abstract:
The registers of admissions and discharges, track the arrival, departure, and academic level of students in the intuition's schools.. Each entry in the admission register includes date, class (1st - 6th grade), boys name, house number, age, ability in reading, writing, and arithmetic, where he attended .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York House of Refuge
Title:
Series:
A2090
Dates:
1829, 1831, 1834-1932
Abstract:
The Annual Reports to the Legislature also included reports on rules and regulations, acts of incorporation, by-laws, statutes and decisions; Building Committee's final report; Bylaws of Board of Managers; and proceedings of first and second conventions of Managers of Houses of Refuge and Schools of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
This series contains lists of male inmates committed from each county except for New York, Kings, and Richmond. Registers provide date admitted, name and occasionally a notation if recommitted. Also included is a typescript county list of inmates paroled from the New York State Training School at Warwick .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Western House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents (Rochester, N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series cites incidents of inmate misbehavior in the Western House of Refuge. Entries contain the inmates' name and number, the date, and the offense. Examples of misbehavior include poor work, impudence or disobedience to staff, profanity, and disorderliness, fighting, and stealing. Records are .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
Fairs were held in part to provide incentive for improved agricultural production. This series consists of registers of points and prizes awarded at annual exhibitions. Information includes year of exhibition; names of colonies; competition categories; number of points awarded to each colony in each .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Title:
Series:
A3144
Dates:
1888-1908
Abstract:
Catholic and Protestant Chaplain, who served as Parole Agents, kept these records about paroled inmates', home, schooling, occupation and conduct at the State Agricultural and Industrial School. Information may include inmate name and number; reference marker to inmate's case history; if died, discharged, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Industrial School
Title:
Series:
A3153
Dates:
1881-1904
Abstract:
The Protestant Chaplain created these indexes to access his volumes of Chaplains' Registers and Parole Agents' Registers which record inmate case histories and conduct of paroled inmates. Information includes names of male and female inmates; volume and page in Parole Agents' and Chaplains' registers .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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