Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Title:
Series:
A2071
Dates:
1863-1874, 1892
Abstract:
The Reformatory's Protestant chaplains functioned as "home visitation agents" or parole agents. They evaluated an inmate's former home, the master's home of an indentured inmate, or the home of a paroled inmate. The brief narrative reports may include master's name, residence, occupation and treatment .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
2
Creator:
New York House of Refuge
Abstract:
These volumes contain correspondence and related items submitted by the Superintendent to the Executive Committee. The documents were reviewed at the Committee's weekly meetings and formed the basis for many actions and decisions. Topics include employee salaries and salary classification issues; legislation, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
3
Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Title:
Series:
A3057
Dates:
1938
Abstract:
This series consists of meeting minutes in the form of hearing transcripts from a committee investigating the problem of runaways at the Agricultural and Industrial School. Testimony included personality traits of good supervisors; methods of discipline and preventing runaways; punishing runaways; frequency .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
4
Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
This series contains information on inmates discharged or transferred to another institution. Information includes name; date left institution; number of years/months in school; grade level; shop or type of work done; farm colony; and to whom sent: name of person or institution if transferred, address, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
5
Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
This series consists of a register of new and paroled inmates of the State Agricultural and Industrial School. Information for new inmates includes name; religion and assigned colony Information for paroled inmates includes name, parole date, colony, and sometimes inventory of inmate clothes. Also included .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
This series consists of orders from the superintendent of the State Agricultural and Industrial School assigning new or returning inmates to the Protestant or Catholic Division. Information may include date of order; inmate name; religious affiliation; date received; and inmate number. Also included .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Industrial School
Abstract:
These indexes provide no indication of, or insufficient information to determine, which records they index. None of the volumes index any existing institution records. Each index includes inmate name; and page number(s). Records are restricted..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Abstract:
This series consists of registers of inmates approved for parole. Information includes signature; date; inmate name and number; to whom paroled; address; if at home, employed, on a farm, in domestic service, etc.; date of parole; and date out of institution (volume 2 only). Records are restricted..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
9
Creator:
New York (State). State Industrial School
Title:
Series:
A3147
Dates:
1893-1902 and n.d
Abstract:
Chaplains served as parole officers for inmates. This volumes which varies in content, consists of a directory of Protestant clergy, judges, police officers, and others in various cities (provides city, name, address, position); and notes on visits to parolees including monthly count of parolees visited .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
Western House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents (Rochester, N.Y.)
Abstract:
When an inmate's good conduct earned a discharge, friends/relatives could provide evidence, called a certificate, of a good home and steady employment. This series consists of a register of inmates at the Western House of Refuge for whom a "certificate of home and employment" and travel expenses have .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
11
Creator:
New York House of Refuge
Abstract:
These minutes summarize the committee's consideration of parole of new inmates, inmates eligible for parole, inmates who applied for parole, and inmates returned to the institution for violating parole. The minutes list inmates' names and numbers and the action to earn parole; investigation to be made; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Title:
Series:
A2092
Dates:
1827-1839 and 1861-1913
Abstract:
This committee met periodically with the Superintendent to review matters concerning inmate apprenticeships. Minutes document committee actions on the: review of applications from prospective master ( include applicant's name and relationship to the inmate, inmate's name, case number and committee's .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York House of Refuge
Abstract:
The Visiting Agent visited the homes of new inmates and paroled inmates' employer to ensure appropriate placement. Information in the daily reports includes name and number of parolee visited; city and/or home address of parolee; relatives' comments on parolee's progress; name and location of employer .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Title:
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
15
Creator:
House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Title:
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
16
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
17
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
18
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
19
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
20
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