Research

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Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of case files of incarcerated individuals sentenced to electrocution at Sing Sing Prison. Files contain warrants of execution; investigation reports (personal and criminal history); receipts for, and replies to, notice of appeal (if filed); correspondence regarding writing and visiting .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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The Statistical Department of Sing Sing Prison compiled a country-by-country list of foreign-born incarcerated individuals containing the following information: consecutive number; age; date of admittance; country; crime; sentence; and disposition. This appears to have been created by the prison administration .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series contains volumes providing summary information on incarcerated individuals sentenced to be executed. Information includes but is not limited to name and aliases of incarcerated individual; crime; term out by commutation, expiration, or pardon; place of birth, age, and occupation; marital .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of admission registers (also known as a "receiving blotter") of federally incarcerated individuals admitted to Sing Sing Prison. Entries include the person's name; aliases; date and place of conviction; offense; term of sentence; date of sentence; beginning and expiration date; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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The series consists of abstracts and vouchers submitted to the Comptroller's Office from the commissioners appointed to build a prison in the Town of Mount Pleasant and similar documents for operation of the prison after it was built. Also included are payrolls of prison employees and inventories of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of information on each incarcerated individual received at the prison. The early volumes provide information such as: admission date; alias; county from which received; age; birthplace; marital and family status; residence; height; weight; complexion; eye and hair color; other physical .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of issues of "Star of Hope," a bi-weekly periodical edited and printed by and for the incarcerated individuals at Sing Sing Prison. Issues contain articles on world news, health, and sports. Also included were editorials, fiction, and poetry..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of approximately 50 black-and-white photographs related to Sing Sing Prison. Included are images of incarcerated individuals, officials, buildings, cell interiors and exteriors, automobiles, the chapel, prison money, cemetery and the electric chair. Several photos are copies of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Department of Correction

 

 

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This series consists of monthly statements of receipts and expenditures maintained by the prison wardens of Auburn, Clinton, Great Meadow and Sing Sing prisons. Statements include receipts from the sale of goods manufactured at the prisons and records of the amount spent on items such as equipment, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

10

Creator:

Dannemora State Hospital

 

 

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This series consists of correspondence and forms compiled by Protestant Chaplains at other prisons while conducting interviews to determine religious affiliation for inmates who ultimately resided at Dannemora State Hospital. Many files contain a full-face photograph of the inmate as well as biographical .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives