Columbia University in the City of New York



Ms Coll/SPC

Society for the Prevention of Crime

Records, 1878-1973

31 linear ft. (66 boxes & 8 oversize volumes and folders)

History: The Society for the Prevention of Crime was founded in 1877 in New York City. It has worked,

successively for the promotion of temperance for judicial and legislative reform and for public and legal education. During its most active periods the Society brought about the formation of the Lexow Committee to investigate the New York City Police in 1894 contributed to the Albany Crime Commission during the 1930s and broadcast popular radio programs on criminal behavior 1946-1948. In 1948 the Society absorbed the Vocational Foundation Bureau a job placement agency for parolees. Since 1956 the Society's only activity has been its annual grant to Columbia Law School for research in penology.

Summary: Papers of the Society, including correspondence among the officers and directors of the Society, memoranda, reports, legal papers, minutes, financial records, radio scripts, clippings, scrapbooks, comic books, and a subject file of pamphlets and clippings on all aspects of crime prevention. Also, an extensive history of the Society.

Finding Aids: Contents list, 21 pages

Restrictions on Access: Available for faculty, students, and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects.

Restrictions on Use: Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Provenance: Gift of the Society, 1980

Processing History: Processed by Henry Rowen, September 1980

Microfilm Information: No material on microfilm

Physical Location: In sequence

RLIN ID: NYCR89-A828

ORGANIZATION OF THE RECORDS

PAGE:

CATALOGED CORRESPONDENCE 3

GENERAL FILES 6

ADMINISTRATION 6

ESSAY CONTEST 8

FINANCIAL 8

PARKHURST, C. H. 1824-1933 8

PUBLICITY 9

RADIO PROGRAMS 9

SCRAPBOOKS 10

SUBJECTS 10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 19

CATALOGED CORRESPONDENCE

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1 Allen, Frederick Lewis

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1 Baldwin, Roger Nash

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1 Battle, George Gordon

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1 Belmont, Eleanor Robson

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1 Bernays, Edward L.

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1 Biddle, Francis

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1 Blanshard, Paul

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1 Bliss, Cornelius Newton, Jr.

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1 Braden, Spruille

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1 Burlingham, Charles Culp

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1 Caniff, Milton

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1 Canner, Carl Lamson

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1 Choate, Joseph Hodges, Jr.

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1 Cortelyou, George Bruce

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1 Crowther, Bosley

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1 Damrosch, Walter

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1 Davis, Noah

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1 Dewey, Thomas Edward

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1 du Pont, Pierre Samuel

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1 Ellin, Stanley

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1 Farrar, John Chipman

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1 Field, Marshall

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1 Finley, John Huston

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1 Flagler, Harry Harkness

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1 Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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1 Harlan, John

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1 Hogan, Frank Smithwick

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1 Holmes, John Haynes

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1 Holt, Hamilton

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1 Hoover, John Edgar

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1 Howe, Louis McHenry

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1 Impellitteri, Vincent H.

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1 Isaacs, Stanley Myer

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1 Jerome, William Travers

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1 Johnson, Alvin Saunders

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1 Kinsey, Alfred Charles

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1 Kirchwey, George Washington

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1 La Guardia, Fiorello Henry

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1 Lehman, Herbert Henry

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1 Lewisohn, Sam A.

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1 Lexow, Clarence

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1 Lukas, Paul

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1 McAneny, George

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1 McCall, Edward Everett

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1 McCay, Winsor Zenic

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1 Mannes, Marya

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1 Manning, William Thomas

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1 Markel, Lester

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1 Marshall, Margaret

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1 Morgenthau, Henry

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1 Moses, Robert

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1 Odell, Benjamin Barker

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1 Parkhurst, Charles Henry

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1 Parsons, Herbert

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1 Prendergast, William A.

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1 Pulitzer, Ralph

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1 Riis, Jacob August

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1 Rockefeller, John Davison, 3d.

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1 Rustin, Bayard

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1 Schieffelin, William Jay

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1 Schwab, Charles M.

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1 Shulman, Irving

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1 Slicer, Thomas Roberts

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1 Smith, Alfred Emanuel

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1 Straus, Nathan

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1 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays

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1 Van Doren, Irita Bradford

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1 Wald, Lillian D.

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1 White, Horace

GENERAL FILES

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2 - 5

Letters to Frank Moss, 1890-1902

Correspondence between Samuel Marcus and Howard Clark Barker, and others,

1913-1920

Correspondence of Howard M. Bassett, George Drew Egbert, George F.

Hammond, Henry N. Pringle, Samuel Marcus, Harry Sussman and others; reports, clippings, etc., 1923-1940

Correspondence of Paul Bianshard, Benjamin M. Day, Edwin J. Lukas, and others; reports, press releases, etc., 1941-1950

Box

6 - 9

File of Bernhard K. Schaefer: correspondence, reports, accounts, etc. (including

the Vocational Foundation Bureau and "A history of the Society for the Prevention of Crime." [1969] by Paul W. Rishell & Albert E. Roraback, 113

ADMINISTRATION

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10

Annual reports

1920-1949

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10

Board of Directors; Board of Trustees. Correspondence

1937-1953

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11

Certificate of incorporation - typescript copies

Box

11

Committees

1946-1951

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11

Constitution and by-laws

1923-1942

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11

Dexter bequest - correspondence

1914-1936

Note: Henry Dexter, 1813-1910, philanthropist and President of the American

News Company, made a bequest to the Society in his will which was contested on behalf of his daughter - legal papers, 1910-1936

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12

Dexter bequest - printed legal briefs and other documents

1910--1936

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12

Executive Committee

1945-1951

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12

Expansion plans

1941-1949

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13

Minutes

1909-1934

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14

Minutes

1924-1952

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15

Minutes

1942-1952

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16

Minutes

--The City Vigilance League of New York

--Board of Trustees

--Executive Committee

--General Committee

1895-1898

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17

Plan and Scope Committee

1933-1941

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17

Staff applications

1937-1950

Oversize no. 6 Whitney, David J.

Memorial Volume

1892

ESSAY CONTEST

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17

"The best program of practicable steps to reduce law-breaking in New York City"

1926

FINANCIAL

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18

Account books

1877-1946

Box

Oversize no. 2

Account book

1935-1941

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19

Account book, 193l-19

Accounts, 1922-1935

Auditor's reports, 1912-1954

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20

Banks, 1941-1954

Budget, 1951

Insurance record, 1935-1939

Investment Committee, 1925-1953

--Green, Ellis & Anderson, 1936-1945

--J. & W. Seligman & Co., 1943-1953

Receipts, 1938-1940

S.P.C.. Holding Company, 1905-1953

Stock certificates (blank book), 1932

Taxes, 1936-1955

Treasurer's reports, 1946-1954

Misc., l928-1944

PARKHURST, C. H. 1824-1933

Pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, was President of the Society from 1891 to 1908 and a leader in the reform movement in New York City politics. A memorial to him was proposed for Madison Square but was never built

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21

Parkhurst Testimonial

1894

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21

Parkhurst Luncheon

1922

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21

Parkhurst Memorial - correspondence, reports, clippings, photos, etc.

1928-1936

Box

22

Parkhurst Memorial - correspondence, etc.

1935-1941

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22

The New Yorker articles on Parkhurst

1955

PUBLICITY

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22

Fund raising

1940-1951

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22

Projects

1945-1949

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22

Radio promotions

1948-1950

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22

Releases

l943-1949

RADIO PROGRAMS

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23

Crime--causes and prevention

12 September 1946

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23

Criminal casebook

1948

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23

American Broadcasting Company

1945-1949

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23

Convict releases

1945-1949

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23

Critical comments

1945-1949

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24

Criminal casebook

--Prospects

--Publicity

--Requests for aid

--Scripts 1-10 & 13

--Sources - criminal & psychiatrist

1948

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25

I was a convict

--Correspondence with convicts, releases, case histories, scripts, etc.; A - G

1945-1949

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26

I was a convict: Correspondence, etc.: H

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27

I was a convict:

--Correspondence, etc.: P - W

--Maxwell, Robert, Associates (Producer)

--Miscellaneous

--Publicity

--Receipts

--Scripts, Jan. - March 1946 & [n.d.]

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28

I was a convict

--Scripts: April 1946 - June 1947

--Sponsors

SCRAPBOOKS

Oversize no. 3

Compiled by Edwin Jay Lukas

1888-1948

Oversize no. 4

Compiled by Edwin Jay Lukas

1941-1947

Oversize no. 5

Compiled by Edwin Jay Lukas

1947-1950

SUBJECTS

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29

Acceptance of offenders by the armed forces

1940-1942

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29

Adolescent girls

1939-1947

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29

Adolescent treatment clinic

1941-1948

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29

Alcoholism

1938-1950

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29

Alien enemy material

1941-1942

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29

Armed forces. See: Acceptance of offenders by the armed forces

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29

Armed services criminality

1944-1946

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30

Albany Crime Conference

1931-1938

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31

Behavior problems & children's institutions

1946-1950

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31

Bail

1941

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31

Bibliographies

1944-1951

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31

Brownsville Boys Club

1943-1949

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32

Capital punishment. See: Murderers & capital punishment Cartoons

Oversize no. 7

Cartoons

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32

Cases; A - R

1896-1951

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33

Cases: S - Y & misc.

1932-1950

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34

Child adoption legislation

1939-1951

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35

Child labor

1942-1949

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35

Children. See: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

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35

Children. See; War & children

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35

Children's Court

1938-1949

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35

Children's institutions. See: Behavior problems & children's Inst.

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35

Civil Service

1941-1944

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35

Civil rights

1949

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35

Civil rights. See also: Race

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35

Comic books. See: Motion pictures, magazines

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35

Correction & penal institutions (1)

1932-1945

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36

Correction & penal institutions (2)

1946-1950

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36

Court interpretations. See: Legislation & court interpretations

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36

Courts

1941-1951

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36

Courts. See: Children's Court

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36

Courts. See: Youth Court

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36

Courts; Brooklyn County Clerk's Office - annual report (County Court)

1940

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37

Crime & delinquency

1932-1951

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37

Crime & delinquency: other countries

1933-l949

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37

Crime causation. See: Popular concepts of crime causation

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37

Crime statistics. See; Delinquency & crime statistics

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37

Criminology

1934-1949

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37

Delinquency. See; Crime & delinquency

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37

Delinquency & crime statistics

l939-l946

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39

Delinquency & crime statistics (2)

1947-1951

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40

Delinquency, unofficial (non-statistical)

1943

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40

Detention

l939-1950

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41

Detention facilities (1)

1938-1946

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42

Detention facilities (2)

1947-1951

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42

Drugs

1936-1939

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42

Education (1)

1938-1944

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43

Education (2)

1945-1950

Box

44 Egbert, George Drew

Sermons

1935-1936

Note: G.D. Egbert was President of the Society from 1933 to 1940 and Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Flushing, NY

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44

Foster home care

1946-1949

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44

Foundations

1943

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44

Gambling (1)

1906-1934

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45

Gambling (2)

1935-1955

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45

Gang activities

1943-1951

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46

Government

1931-1939

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46

Guidance clinics

1949

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47

Health

1943-1949

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47

Housing

1937-1950

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48

Legislation & court interpretations

1941-1951

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49

Lexow Committee: Minutes, Vol. 2 & Vol. 1

-- "Investigations of the Police Department and other departments of the

City of New York by a committee of the Senate; 1894; Vol. II; Frank Moss of Counsel for Committee"

-- "Lexow Committee's original minutes; Vol. IV; 1894"

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50

Marriage and divorce

1947-1950

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50

Mental deficiency

1938-1950

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50

Miscellaneous

1901-1950

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50

Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics in relation to delinquency

(includes many comic books)

1938-1948

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51

Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics (2)

1947 & 1948

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52

Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics (3)

(includes the censorship trial of The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shuinan)

1949-1950

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52

Murderers & capital punishment

1939-1949

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52

Narcotics

1938-1951

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52

New York City. Juvenile Aid Bureau. See: "Politics and children"

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52

New York State. See: Albany Crime Conference

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52

New York State. Legislature. Senate. Committee on the Police Department of the City of New York. See: Lexow Committee

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52

Pari-mutual legislation

l938-1940

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52

Parole. See: Probation & parole

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52

Parolees. See: Problems of prisoners & parolees

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52

Penal institutions. See: Correction & penal institutions

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52

Planned parenthood

1941-1946

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53

Police

1945-1951

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53

Police. See also: Lexow Committee "Police and children"

-a study of New York City's Juvenile Aid Bureau

1949

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53

Popular concepts of crime causation

1946-1949

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53

Population statistics

1939-1948

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53

Post war planning

1942-1951

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54

Preventive measures

1942-1951

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55

Probation & parole

1936-1951

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55

Problems of prisoners & parolees

1942-1949

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56

Prostitution

1923-1951

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57

Psychiatric cases & notes (1)

1928-1945

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58

Psychiatric cases & notes (2)

1946-1950

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59

Race discrimination amendment

1944-1950

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59

Race prejudice (l)

1941-1947

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60

Race prejudice (2)

1948-1950

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60

Race prejudice. See also: Civil rights

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60

Rackets

1933

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60

Radio

1944-1948

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60

Radio. See also: Motion pictures, magazines, radio

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61

Recreation & nursery care

1940-1949

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61

Religion

1940-1949

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61

Sex education

1943-1949

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61

Sex offenders (1)

1935-1946

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62

Sex offenders (2)

l947-1950

Box

62 Shulman, Irving

The Amboy Dukes See: Motion pictures

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62

Social action

1941-1950

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62

Social work (1)

1935-1947

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63

Social work (2)

1948-1949

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63

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

1900-1942

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63

Treatment programs

1939-1951

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63

Venereal disease

l939-l948

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64

Vocational education

1935-1948

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64

War & children

1942-1944

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64

War criminals

1942-1949

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64

Welfare societies

1937 & 1938

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64

Youth

1940-1949

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65

Youth correction authority

1940-1949

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65

Youth Court (1)

1919-1941

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Youth Court (2)

1942-1951

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Original order of the subject headings:

1. Crime & delinquency - general

2. Crime & delinquency - other countries

3. War criminals

4. Armed services criminality

5. Murderers & capital punishment

6. Gang activities

7. Adolescent girls

8. Prostitution

9. Sex deviates (sex offenders)

10. Alien enemy material

11. Gambling

12. War & children

12-A. Youth

12-B. Child labor

13. Unofficial delinquency

14. Narcotics

15. Alcoholism

16. Health

17. Venereal disease

18. Mental deficiency

19. Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics in relation to

delinquency

20. Race prejudice

21. Race discrimination amendment

22. Religion

23. Preventive measures

24. Treatment programs

25. Education

26. Sex education

27. Vocational education

28 Planned parenthood

29. Recreation & nursery care

30. Housing

31. Social work

32. Foster home care

33. Radio

34. Foundations

35. Post war planning

36. Youth correction authority

37. Courts

38. Youth Court

39. Children's Court

40.

41. Correctional & penal institutions

42. Detention

43. Detention facilities

44. Probation & parole

45. Problems of prisoners & parolees

46. Behavior problems & children's institutions

47. Bail

48. Criminology - general

49. Psychiatric cases & notes

50. Civil Service

51. Population statistics

52. Delinquency & crime statistics

53. Popular concepts of crime causation

54. Police

55. Social action

56. Civil rights

57. Marriage and divorce

58. Miscellaneous

59. Guidance clinics

Some officers of the Society who appear in the correspondence:

Frank Moss [Counsel 1887-1908; President 1908-1909]

Charles Henry Parkhurst [President 1891-1908]

Samuel Marcus [Counsel 1908-1936]

Charles E. Bruce [President 1909-1921]

S. Edward Young [President 1921-1927]

Howard Clark Barber [Superintendent -1932; Director 1925-1932,

1936-1939]

William Jay Schieffelin [President 1927-1933]

Albert E. Roraback [Vice-President 1926-]

Howard M. Bassett

George P. Hammond [Superintendent 1932-1935]

George Drew Egbert [President 1933-1940]

Henry N. Pringle [Investigator; Superintendent]

Harry Sussman [Investigator]

Lionel J. Freeman [Superintendent 1935-1937]

J. Edward Lumbard [Counsel 1937-]

Benjamin M. Day [President 1940-1942]

Paul Blanshard [Ex Secretary 1941/1942]

George H. Sibley President 1942-1948]

Edwin Jay Lukas [Ex Secretary 1943-1950; Ex Director 1950]

Clarence O. Dimmock [Counsel 1943-]

Bernhard K. Schaefer [President 1948-]

K. Brent Woodruff [Ex Director, 1950/1951]

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