1930 NYC DOC Prison Matrons List

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NYC DOC Prison Matrons
names, appointment dates, institution assignments, and salaries on last 2 pages in a 20-page "keepers list" booklet published March 16, 1930:
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[NYCDOC Matrons 1930 second page of names]

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MATRONS
*Date of Appointment*	*Name*	*Institution*	*Salary*
Aug. 25, 1924	Gertrude Becker	District Prisons	$1,920.00
Jan. 1, 1925	Martha Sharkey	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Mar. 3, 1925	Rose A. Smith	District Prisons	$1,920.00
Mar. 5, 1925	Adeline Muth	District Prisons	$1,920.00
Nov. 1, 1925	Mary A. Curry	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Feb. 1, 1926	Alice B. Meany	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Mar. 16, 1926	Anna V. Bennett	District Prisons	$1,920.00
June 16, 1926—Temp Oct. 1, 1926—App. Perm.	Mary A. Gilden	District Prisons	$1,920.00
Jan. 5, 1927	Margaret F. Murray	C. P. Brooklyn	$1,920.00
Jan. 5, 1927	Margaret Grossjean	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Jan. 5, 1927	Mary A. Hogan	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Jan. 17, 1927— Apptd.Temp. Matron Apr. 16, 1928— Apptd. Head Cook Jan. 1, 1929— Apptd. Perm. Matron (No time lost)	Mary Boland	Greycourt	$1,920.00
Mar. 9, 1927	Delia A. Carew	Greycourt	$1,920.00
June 20, 1927	Matilda A. V. Richards	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Nov. 1, 1927	Mary M. Whyte	District Prisons	$1,920.00
Feb. 1, 1928	Ruth K. Littner	Greycourt	$1,920.00
Feb. 1, 1928	Mary Willoth	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Apr. 16, 1928	Adele Steinberg	Greycourt, N. Y	$1,920.00
Apr. 16, 1928	Rose Farrell	District Prisons	$1,920.00
Apr. 16, 1928	Esther M. Price	C. P. Brooklyn	$1,920.00
May 1, 1928—App. Temp Aug. 16, 1928—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Annie Downing	C. P. Brooklyn	$1,920.00
Aug. 16, 1928	Carrie Stillwell	Greycourt	$1,920.00
July 16, 1928—App. Temp Aug. 16, 1928—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Mary Reidy	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Aug. 8, 1928—App. Temp Jan. 1, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Mary Rice	C. P. Brooklyn	$1,920.00
Aug. 13, 1928—App. Temp Jan. 1, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Pauline S. VandeVelde	C. P. Brooklyn	$1,920.00
Jan. 1, 1929	Christine Hartnett	Greycourt	$1,920.00
Jan. 1, 1929—App. Temp Mar. 6, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Mary J. McGinn	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Jan. 16, 1929—App. Temp Mar. 6, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Dorothy McRickard	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Feb. 1, 1929	Rose Maffeo	C. P. Brooklyn	$1,920.00
Feb. 18, 1929—App. Temp June 17, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Mary G. Conlin	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Mar. 6, 1929—App. Temp Apr. 16, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Mary V. McKeon	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Apr. 16, 1929	Mae Martin	Workhouse, W L	$1,920.00
June 1, 1929—Temp June 5, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Mary E. Canavatto	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
June 17, 1929—App. Temp July 16 ,1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Catherine T. Keenan	District Prisons	$1,920.00
July 16, 1929—App. Temp Oct. 10, 1929—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Mary Malloy	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,920.00
Oct. 10, 1929	Margaret Cunningham	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,769.00
Oct. 10, 1929	Minnette Beck	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,769.00
Oct. 16, 1929	Helen Neafsy	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,769.00
Oct. 10, 1929—Temp Jan. 7, 1930—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Ellen M. Doyle	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,769.00
Jan. 13, 1930—Temp. Mar. 16, 1930—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Ella McCarthy	Greycourt	$1,769.00
Feb. 13, 1930—Temp Mar. 16, 1930—App. Perm. (No time lost)	Bridget O’Connor	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,769.00
Mar. 16, 1930	Annie Harte	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,769.00
May 1, 1924	Anna Mulligan	Workhouse, W. I.	$1,769.00

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Glossary for Above Institution Identity Terms Used in 1930 Listing:
*C. P. Brooklyn*	City Prison, Brooklyn, aka the Raymond Street Jail, 149 Ashland Place.
*C. P. Queens*	City Prison, Queens, 1 Court Square, Long Island City.
*District Prisons*	11 detention facilites -- 9 in Manhattan, 2 in the Bronx-- treated as 1 command.
*Greycourt*	The Women's Farm Colony in the Town of Chester, Orange County, N.Y., that received its first female inmates in 1924.
*Workhouse*	Officially renamed the Correction Hospital in 1916, the Welfare Island facility's 19th century name lingered in use. Separate sections for male and female inmates.

Web note re historical perspective:
The 1930 DOC booklet's listing reflects the then secondary status of female custodial staffers. The matrons were not even included in the booklet's title. For this 2005 Women’s History presentation, we "corrected" that oversight digitally on the booklet cover image -- a bit of historical revisionism! Nor were they mentioned in the Page 3 introduction (see To All Prison Keepers text box on the right) that stressed how seniority strictly determined salary.
But, while that introduction cited seven pay grades, from $1,769 to $2,220, a glance at the matrons’ pay reveals their salaries stopped at the next-to-the-bottom rung -- $1,920 -- regardless of seniority.
Male keepers on the job more than 15 years had moved up the salary ladder, not the matrons. Example: the 30 most senior men, appointment dates from 1883 through 1908, drew the top pay grade: $2,220. The 7 most senior women, appointment dates from 1896 through 1908, were still stuck at the second lowest pay level: $1,920.

The printed booklet's title page was numbered page 1, followed by a blank page, followed by the salary ladder explanation (below) on numbered page 3. The actual listing began on numbered page 4.

March 16, 1930.

To All Prison Keepers:

There is given herewith in the order of seniority a list of all the prison keepers of the Department, as of March 16, I930.

This list gives the name, date of appointment, institution where assigned, and the salary.

You are also advised that it is the fixed policy of this administration to advance keepers from the lower to the higher grades of salary in the order of their length of service with the Department.

There will be no deviation from this except in cases where a keeper has performed some particularly meritorious or courageous act in connection with the prevention of escapes, suppression of riots or mutinies, or something of a similar nature; or where a keeper has been convicted of any dereliction of duty of a serious nature.

--- $1,769
--- $1,920
--- $1,980
--- $2,040
--- $2,100
--- $2,160
--- $2,220

ANOTHER 2005 WOMEN'S HISTORY PROJECT
Freddie Wallace-Rakis' beautifully photographed and creatively designed set of 5 photo montage posters (each 13 x 19 inches) that DOC printed and distributed to its facilities for wall display to celebrate 2005 Women's History Month has been converted and reduced by NYCHS into a PDF file with downloadable and printable pages (each 5.5 x 8.5 inches). A cover page with the 5 montages in miniature has been added for this NYCHS presentation of the DOC posters. Each miniature montage on the NYCHS version's cover page is linked to its respective 5.5 x 8.5 DOC poster page. The 6-page PDF file is 700K. It can be saved to 3.5 inch floppy disk. Access the PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file by clikcing the above composite image of the cover page of the NYCHS version.