New York State Commissioner to Examine and Investigate the Management and Affairs of the Office of the Fiscal Supervisor of State Charities, the State Board of Charities, the Sites, Buildings and Grounds Commission, the Building Improvement Commission, and the Salary Classification Commission Investigation Correspondence, Transcripts, and Printed Materials A0017

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This series contains Charles H. Strong's records of his investigation of the State Board of Charities and children's institutions.

The series includes: Governor Whitman's signed certificate of appointment of Strong as Commissioner; lists of issues to consider and questions to answer in the investigation; reports on conditions in several children's institutions; anonymous Moree pamphlet of reprinted newspaper headlines and articles criticizing conditions in children's institutions; "Farrell pamphlets" criticizing the investigation and attacking the investigators as anti-Catholic; letters to Strong commending him on his investigation and report; address by Strong to the State Conference of Mayors in June, 1917 concerning the investigation and the need to reorganize the State Board of Charities; draft article about Catholic criticism of the investigation, dated 1928; brief history of the English Commissioners in Lunacy; and scrapbook of newspaper clippings and articles concerning the investigation.

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