Scope and Content Note
This series contains a one-week menu headed "An Improved Diet - Begun in 1868," ca. 1875; newspaper article about schooling, discipline, parole, and rewards for good behavior at the school, July 20, 1930; news clippings about the arrest of four jewel thieves, one of whom had been an inmate at the Elmira Reformatory, December 13, 1907; and report by the Parole Director entitled "Is It Worth 8 Cents a Day?" summarizing the previous year's parole practices at the school, 1939.
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