Printed items concerning school operations, [ca. 1875-1939]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Printed items concerning school operations, [ca. 1875-1939]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83448059

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.

0.2 cu. ft. (4 items)

New York State Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8301634

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

New York State Agricultural and Industrial School.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kf2pvt (corporateBody)

The first of the Annual Exhibitions or "fairs" was held in 1908, in part to provide incentive for improved agricultural production. Inmates staged exhibits of livestock, agricultural products, and manufactured goods, and prizes were awarded to individual inmates or colonies in various competitive categories. From the description of Registers of points and prizes awarded at Annual Exhibitions, 1911-1937, bulk 1911-1915, 1917-1933. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 7797172...

New York (State). Division for Youth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qz68h9 (corporateBody)

Ersa H. Poston was appointed Regional Director of the New York State Youth Commission in 1957 and continued in that capacity when the State Division for Youth superseded the Youth Commission in 1960. Poston directed the agency's operations in New York City, Long Island, and the counties of Westchester, Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, Delaware, Greene, and Columbia. In 1963, Poston was appointed to the position of Youth and Work Coordinator, with responsibility for overseein...