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Wisconsin. State Dept. of Public Welfare. General correspondence, 1910-1974.

Title: General correspondence, 1910-1974.

Correspondence of the director and deputy director with Department of Public Welfare committees and councils, professional associations, legislators, and state and federal government agencies concerning mental health, aging, Social Security, juvenile delinquency, the courts, and other topics. The processed portion of this series is summarized above, dates 1916-1967, and is described in the register. There are additional accessions dating 1963-1974 which are described below.

ArchivalResource: 14.0 c.f. (14 record center cartons); plus.additions of 27.0 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774537 View

Wisconsin. State Dept. of Public Welfare. Investigations file, 1879-1949.

Title: Investigations file, 1879-1949.

Records concerning investigations of or by the Department and its predecessor agencies including an investigation of the Milwaukee House of Correction in 1879 and beginning in 1911 general investigations of facilities, employees, and inmates of state institutions.

ArchivalResource: 11.2 c.f. (28 archives boxes)

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Wisconsin. State Department of Public Welfare: Inspection of Charitable and Penal Institutions

Title: Wisconsin. State Department of Public Welfare: Inspection of Charitable and Penal Institutions

Inspection record of private, semi-private, and public institutions including mental health hospitals, Indian schools, orphanages, rescue missions, reformatories, county jails, prisons, charities, and hospitals. The records include detailed reports of the condition of the facilities and the quality of inmate care.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 c.f. (20 archives boxes, 4 card file cartons, 1 half record center carton, and 5 volumes)

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Wisconsin. Office of the Secretary of State. Claims against counties by state institutions for support of inmates, 1873-1935, 1944-1953.

Title: Claims against counties by state institutions for support of inmates, 1873-1935, 1944-1953.

Annual reports to the Secretary of State and later to the State Board of Control showing the payment due the state from Wisconsin counties for the care of dependents and inmates in various state and county institutions. Included is the name of the county, the date of the inmate's admission and discharge, and maintenance costs. The represented institutions are those for which the Archives does not hold admission or inmate case files: Central State Hospital for the Insane, Northern Hospital for the Insane (later Winnebago State Hospital), Southern Wisconsin Colony, the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Lake Tomahawk State Camp, and various county institutions.

ArchivalResource: 7.2 c.f. (18 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145775178 View

Richmond, Frank C. Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1934.

Title: Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1934.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves)

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Lorenz, William F., 1882-1958. Papers, 1914-1953.

Title: Papers, 1914-1953.

Papers, mainly 1938-1952, of a nationally-known neuropsychiatrist who was the first director (1915-1952) of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute, a testing and research laboratory, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin (1915-1952). The collection chiefly consists of outgoing correspondence to Leo T. Crowley, Paul De Kruif, August Derleth, William T. Evjue, Walter Goodland, Ralph Immell, William Middleton, Hans Reese, Harry Sauthoff, A. G. Schmedeman, Frank Lloyd Wright, and other political, military, and medical associates and to his sons during their military service in World War II.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes); plusadditions of 29 photographs and21 negatives.

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Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Parole record, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1916.

Title: Parole record, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1916.

Record providing name of inmate, offense, date of conviction, sentence, sentencing officer, dates of parole application and hearing, and final determination of hearing.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 c.f.

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Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Old account index, 1911-1916.

Title: Old account index, 1911-1916.

Classification system for accounts used by the Board of Control for charitable and penal institutions.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 volume)

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Wisconsin. Division for Children and Youth. Unwed mothers files, 1929-1952.

Title: Unwed mothers files, 1929-1952.

ArchivalResource: 13.0 c.f.

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Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Psychiatric Field Service case files [microform], 1925-1943.

Title: Psychiatric Field Service case files [microform], 1925-1943.

Reports of physical and psychiatric examinations of inmates of penal and reformatory institutions administered by the Psychiatric Field Service at the time of admission, application for parole or pardon, and for special causes.

ArchivalResource: 159 reels of microfilm (16 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145780116 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Minutes of the State Boards of Supervision, Control, and Mental Hygiene, 1881-1939.

Title: Minutes of the State Boards of Supervision, Control, and Mental Hygiene, 1881-1939.

Minutes of the State Board of Supervision (1881-1891), its successor, the State Board of Control (1891-1939), and the State Board of Mental Hygiene (1938-1939).

ArchivalResource: 4.2 c.f. (7 v., 7 archives boxes) and.7 reels of microfilm (35 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122430980 View

Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Wisconsin Home for Women bulletins to staff, 1934-1948 [microform].

Title: Wisconsin Home for Women bulletins to staff, 1934-1948 [microform].

Bulletins addressed to entire staff or specific staff members containing general administrative information or instructions, pasted into scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17272076 View

Wisconsin. State Dept. of Public Welfare. Wisconsin state government correspondence, 1923-1968.

Title: Wisconsin state government correspondence, 1923-1968.

Correspondence of the department director and deputy director with other state agencies concerning child welfare, youth problems, mental health, the University of Wisconsin, and the University Hospital.

ArchivalResource: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes)

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Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Aid to dependent children certifications, 1921-1935.

Title: Aid to dependent children certifications, 1921-1935.

Annual certified statements of the total amount of money paid by each county for the care and support of dependent children and for aid to the blind and deaf, with a list of the names and addresses of the persons receiving payments, amounts received each month, and annual totals.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774614 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Mother's pension expenditures, 1913-1930.

Title: Mother's pension expenditures, 1913-1930.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 c.f. (1 flat box)

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Wisconsin. Division for Children and Youth. Juvenile delinquency investigations, 1937-1950.

Title: Juvenile delinquency investigations, 1937-1950.

Studies made of the problem of juvenile delinquency, 1937-1943, and transcripts of testimony at hearings held by a committee of the Legislature in various cities of the state in 1945, giving information about conditions of juvenile delinquency in those localities.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774581 View

Wright, A. O. (Albert Orville), 1842-1924. Papers, 1891, 1894-1897.

Title: Papers, 1891, 1894-1897.

Correspondence and reports of Albert Orville Wright, an inspector for the State Board of Control overseeing reformatory, charitable, and penal institutions and former secretary of the State Board of Charities and Reform. Includes lists of inmates of various institutions; reports on county asylums in 1895 and 1896, on insane persons whose support was not properly chargeable to the state, and on investigations concerning insane soldiers of the Civil War kept in state hospitals; and correspondence with various charitable organizations in the United States concerning plans for the Twenty-third National Conference of Charities and Correction, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1896, of which Wright was president.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787611 View

Hannan, John J., 1866-1946. Papers, 1921-1942.

Title: Papers, 1921-1942.

Correspondence and addresses on prison reforms and other social reform movements, written by John J. Hannan, a Madison resident who served as secretary and as president of the Wisconsin State Board of Control.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

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Wisconsin. Division of Public Assistance. Accounting Section correspondence, 1935-1944.

Title: Accounting Section correspondence, 1935-1944.

Administrative correspondence, staff correspondence, reports, audits, and statistical material relating to public assistance programs administered by Public Welfare and previously by the Board of Control and the State Pension Department, 1935-1937.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774609 View

Wisconsin. State Dept. of Public Welfare. Clippings, 1894-1950.

Title: Clippings, 1894-1950.

Mounted newspaper clippings relating to the State Board of Control and the State Department of Public Welfare, concerning topics such as corrections, mental health, child welfare, and public assistance programs in Wisconsin and other states, primarily from Wisconsin newspapers.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 c.f. (1 archives box, 2 flat boxes)

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Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Probation record, 1909-1914.

Title: Probation record, 1909-1914.

Record of probationers, including name, residence, birthplace, marital status, offense, date of conviction, sentence, sentencing officer, previous record, ethnic ancestry, occupation, employer, and field officer visit report.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145779856 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Agency history record.

Title: Agency history record.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145776492 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Letterbooks, 1900-1923.

Title: Letterbooks, 1900-1923.

Letterpress copies of correspondence sent by Board officers, including letters of appointment to positions at state institutions, approvals of contracts and commitments, letters expressing policies of the Board, and letters pertaining to financial transactions and institutional operations.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (4 volumes in carton)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774535 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Applications of counties for relief from maintenance charges, 1882-1915.

Title: Applications of counties for relief from maintenance charges, 1882-1915.

Record book of cases heard and determined by the State Board of Supervision and the State Board of Control concerning applications made by counties for relief from maintenance charges for patients in state mental hospitals.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 volume)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774544 View

Lecher, Paul G. Wisconsin state institutions photographs, 1893.

Title: Wisconsin state institutions photographs, 1893.

Photographs of Wisconsin state institutions made for the Wisconsin State Board of Control by H. H. Bennett and Paul G. Lecher in 1893. The images were made for the Columbian Exposition. Institutions photographed include the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in Mendota, the Northern Hospital for the Insane in Winnebago, the Wisconsin State Prison in Waupun, the State Industrial School for Boys in Waukesha, the State School in Sparta, and the State School for the Blind in Janesville. The State Board of Control hired Lecher to make the photographs. Lecher, in turn, hired Bennett. Bennett made the negatives from which Lecher produced the prints.

ArchivalResource: 121 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173693974 View

Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Wisconsin State Prison financial reports, 1916-1955.

Title: Wisconsin State Prison financial reports, 1916-1955.

Annual financial reports for the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun, 1916-1923 (in Box 1), and separate reports for the prison's binder twine plant, 1916-1955 (in Box 1-2). Included for each type of report are trial balances, account balances, statements of profit and loss, inventories, and analyses of sales and quantities produced. Both reports also include information about various costs associated with prison labor.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 c.f. (2 flat boxes)

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Wisconsin. State Dept. of Public Welfare. Audits of the charitable and penal institutions, 1914-1942.

Title: Audits of the charitable and penal institutions, 1914-1942.

Audit reports for the various charitable and penal institutions reflecting a period of auditing changes throughout the entire state system and including suggestions for these changes.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774548 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. General ledgers, 1884-1913.

Title: General ledgers, 1884-1913.

Ledger record of accounts of the State Board of Supervision, the Board of Control, and state penal, charitable, and reformatory institutions.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 c.f. (10 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774546 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Index to general ledgers, 1881-1901.

Title: Index to general ledgers, 1881-1901.

Index to Volume A and Volumes 1-5 of "General Ledgers" (Series 1362).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 c.f. (4 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774547 View

Schwantz, Frances Goetsch, 1877-1968. Frances Goetsch Schwantz papers and photographs, 1856-1980.

Title: Frances Goetsch Schwantz papers and photographs, 1856-1980.

Papers of Frances Loraine Goetsch Schwantz, concerning the Goetsch family's emigration from Germany to the area around Watertown, Wisconsin in 1845; Schwantz's education and work as a school teacher; her work for the State Board of Control under Mrs. Elizabeth Kading from 1923-1924; and the genealogy of her extended family. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks, memorabilia, account books, notebooks, clippings, photographs, and negatives, with the bulk of the items from 1894-1968. Some of the materials were used for the 1982 "Six Generations Here" exhibit organized by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin about the Krueger family, to which the Goetsch family is related.

ArchivalResource: 1.9 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder),395 photographs,8 negatives, and1.0 c.f. of scrapbooks (2 flat boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692790 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Milwaukee Committee on State Aid records, 1914-1915.

Title: Milwaukee Committee on State Aid records, 1914-1915.

Minutes and other papers of a committee appointed by the Board of Control to investigate the need for state aid to mothers, plus material on county poor relief, family problems, and studies of families in which the breadwinner is dead.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 envelope)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774642 View

Davidson, James O., 1854-1922. James O. Davidson papers, 1885-1919.

Title: James O. Davidson papers, 1885-1919.

Papers of James O. Davidson, a Wisconsin state treasurer, 1899-1903, lieutenant governor, 1903-1906, governor, 1906-1911, and president of the state board of control, 1915-1919. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence, speeches, and letter books, and deals with state political affairs for the years 1906-1910, including relations between Davidson and Robert M. La Follette in 1905-1906 and the campaign of 1906, the John Deitz "battle" at Cameron Dam in 1906 and reverberations in years following, patronage, campaign funds raised by game wardens in 1908, routine matters of state administration, complaints, pardon and parole matters, and civil service policies. Material for years preceding 1906 relates to Davidson's campaign for state treasurer, patronage, and routine matters connected with administration of the state treasury. Among the correspondents for this period are Joseph W. Babcock, Albert R. Hall, Samuel Harper, William D. Hoard, and Atley Peterson. Letters after 1910 relate to efforts of Davidson to obtain a federal appointment, pardon and parole matters, and an investigation of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Correspondence on a number of Davidson's small-scale business operations is scattered throughout the collection.

ArchivalResource: 8.8 c.f. (36 archives boxes and 5 flat boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145786499 View

Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Institution photographs, 1917-1987, 1996.

Title: Institution photographs, 1917-1987, 1996.

The original 11 photographs are aerial photographs of state correctional institutions including Waupun, Green Bay, Columbia, Dodge, Taycheedah, Fox Lake, Kettle Moraine, Oshkosh, Oakhill, Racine, and Jackson; with a brief profile of each facility on the reverse side of the photograph.

ArchivalResource: 11 photographs; plusadditions of 1.0 c.f. of photographs and negatives

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173693107 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Record of orders of State Board of Control, 1891-1911.

Title: Record of orders of State Board of Control, 1891-1911.

Record of orders, regulations, and resolutions concerning the operation and administration of charitable, penal, and reformatory institutions.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 volume)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774545 View

Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Wisconsin Home for Women clippings scrapbooks, 1927-1951.

Title: Wisconsin Home for Women clippings scrapbooks, 1927-1951.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings relating to the facilities, operations, and personnel of the Wisconsin correctional system and the Wisconsin Home for Women in particular.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17272086 View

Wisconsin. State Board of Control. Aid to the blind, and blind and deaf certifications, 1921-1935.

Title: Aid to the blind, and blind and deaf certifications, 1921-1935.

Annual certified statements from the counties of the total amount of money paid by them for the care and support of the blind and of the blind and deaf, including a list of the names and addresses of the persons receiving payments, amounts received each month, and yearly total.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774647 View

Kading, Charles A., 1874-1956. Charles A., Elizabeth, and Charles E. Kading papers, 1893-1976.

Title: Charles A., Elizabeth, and Charles E. Kading papers, 1893-1976.

Papers of Charles Kading, a Watertown, Wisconsin lawyer and Progressive Republican Congressman; of his wife, Elizabeth, a lawyer and president of the Wisconsin State Board of Control; and of their son, Charles E., a lawyer and county court judge; including correspondence, speeches, financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers. The senior Kading's congressional career is documented in correspondence demonstrating his constituents' concerns and his contacts with the Fox River Improvement Association, the Portage Deep Waterway Committee, and the United States Federal Radio Commission. Prominent correspondents include Charles Goff, Charles E. Broughton, Herman L. Ekern, William Theodore Evjue, Carlisle V. Hibbard, Halbert L. Hoard, Philip Fox La Follette, Robert M. La Follette, Jr., O.J.G. Peters, and Edward Voigt. Other correspondence concerns Mrs. Kading's work for the State Board of Control, 1923-1924. Also present are speeches and other material related to the elder Kadings' employment as educators with the Theresa, Wis., school system, which ended in 1900. The Charles E. Kading papers pertain to his Naval training in World War II, his years as a member of the Watertown City Council, and his fight as a Jefferson County court judge against a rule requiring complete financial disclosure by judges. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1893-1976, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1890s-1970s and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder); plusadditions of 0.4 c.f.343 photographs.6 transparencies, and.1 drawing.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700950 View

Wisconsin. Dept. of Corrections. Master file cards/court history and movement records, 1921-1993.

Title: Master file cards/court history and movement records, 1921-1993.

A Master File Card or a Court History and Movement Record is created for each adult or juvenile placed in the custody of Corrections, including those committed to a correctional institution and those placed on probation. Information includes, but is not limited to, the following: client name; case number; date of birth; sex; race; address; marital status; agent number; case type; mandatory release date; offenses; date committed; term; discharge date; statutes violated; conditions of probation; also sentences; committing court, county, and judge; transfer information--date, address, county, agent number, and agent headquarters; movement information--event, classification, date, assignment, and commitment number; and "T" (termination) number.

ArchivalResource: 71.6 c.f. (67 card boxes and 181 file boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145775123 View

Wisconsin. Division for Children and Youth. Director's subject file, 1913-1968.

Title: Director's subject file, 1913-1968.

Subject file of the director of the Division for Children and Youth and his predecessor in the Juvenile Department of the State Board of Control. Included are files relating to administration of the Division and to the Division's responsibilities in the fields of adoption, child welfare agency certification and inspection, regulation of foster homes, juvenile delinquency, the Wisconsin Child Center at Sparta, and supervision of county child care activities.

ArchivalResource: 13.6 c.f. (34 archives boxes); plusadditions of 1.2 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774580 View

Wisconsin. Governor. Investigations, 1851-1959.

Title: Investigations, 1851-1959.

Records of investigations of state officers, state institutions, and others with which the governor was involved. Included are correspondence, testimony, briefs, reports, exhibits, photographs, and copies of other court documents. The documented investigations took place for various reasons.

ArchivalResource: 20.6 c.f. (53 archives boxes) and.44 photographs (1 flat box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145775531 View