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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of thirty-seven, two-page biographical entries relating to incarcerated individuals at the New York State Industrial School who were ordered to serve temporary, definite sentences in the New York State Reformatory at Elmira. These entries were recorded in the back of the first volume of Series B0129, Elmira Reformatory Biographical Registers of Federal Prisoners, 1902-1934, and therefore include the same general type of information. Entries include past criminal history, most notably dates of confinement in the State Industrial School and date of order confining the incarcerated individual at the State Reformatory; age, nativity, and nationality; names of closest relatives; family history; personal history; physician's report at time of confinement and at time of departure; vocational assignment while confined; and criminal history following departure.