Industry records, 1898-1928.

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Industry records, 1898-1928.

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Records relate to industries performed by inmates at the State Farm at Bridgewater, Mass., including weaving (conducted from at least 1875), and chair caning (from at least 1883) Subseries (1): Industry sales and labor, 1898-1928 (3 v.). Two volumes, 1898-1919, give expenses for industries listed by month, including instructor salaries, materials, chair parts, tools. Additional ledger, 1911-1928, lists accounts for entities (municipalities, hospitals, prisons) receiving State Farm products, including chairs, textiles, poultry, and pork. Prices charged, including transportation fees, are noted. Subseries (2): Textile manufacturing, 1911-1919 (3 v.). Records relate to weaving of shirting, blankets, toweling, and others, and distribution of finished products, often supplied to other state correctional institutions. Subseries (3): Soft soap manufactured, 1915-1919 (3 v.). Records show use of ingredients (bones, grease, meat scraps, soda) in soap manufacture, and track quantity of finished soap issued and distributed to a wide number of described buildings on the Bridgewater campus (e.g., women's building, asylum, laundry, almshouse) Subseries (4): Chair shop, 1916. (2 v.)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. State Asylum for Insane Criminals (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Bridgewater State Hospital (Mass.)

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The State Asylum for Insane Criminals was established in Massachusetts in 1895 at the State Workhouse in Bridgewater. Under the workhouse's successor, the State Farm (from 1887), the asylum was renamed Bridgewater State Hospital in 1909. In 1919 the State Farm, including the State Hospital, was transferred from the State Board of Charity to the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons (later Dept. of Correction), although as of 1923 the Dept. of Mental Diseases (later Dept. of Mental Health) retained the...

Massachusetts. State Farm (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Bridgewater, Mass., was the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887), for paupers convicted of misdemeanors as well as paupers generally (from 1872), and incorrigible juveniles (1869-1948). The State Workhouse was renamed the State Farm (1887-1955), which also included a State Farm Hospital for the medical needs of all inmates, as well as locals and poor admitted solely for medical treatment. Th...