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Return to top of page. Return to top of page. Sing Sing guard befriends inmate artist trying to support family with window shade paintings (example left). Return to top of page. By Dr. Robert L. Gold NYCHS' 9-page presentation of Searching Sing Sing for My Father: Harry N. Gold, Inmate #76577Y, 1924-1930 Return to top of page. Brooke Kroeger's Nellie Bly Daredevil + Reporter + Feminist Bly Inside Blackwell's Madhouse 5-Page NYCHS excerpts presentation: Bly in Blackwell's Island Madhouse (Before, During & After) Return to top of page. Pierre Raphael's Inside Rikers Island: A Chaplain's Search for God 13 NYCHS excerpts presentation pages. Return to top of page. In April 2003, Auburn prison historian John Miskell (right) presented NYCHS with a NYS Senate volume of 1869 reports on prisons and other institutions (title page left). NYCHS presents excerpts from reports by chaplains at Auburn, Sing Sing and Clinton prisons. 1869 NY State Prison Chaplain Reports Return to top of page. Why was the Tombs the execution site for the only American ever hanged as a slave trader? Tombs yard minus gallows (left) and with Gordon at gallows (right). Return to top of page. Rikers’ Unsung Heroes of the 1904 General Slocum Disaster By Karen Lamberton For the New York Correction History Society Return to Brooklyn's Raymond St. Jail via vintage photos from retired CO Peter J. Ledwith. Return to top of page. Question About Some NY Firsts: What links NYPD's 1st Black officer, NYC DOC's 1st female commissioner, NYC DOC's 1st Black commissioner, and NY Yankees' 1st baseman 'Iron Man'? Answer: The 1st US city parole commission. Return to top of page. Finding the 'Lost Chapel' of Rikers IslandCan you spot two chapels in this enlargement of a 1948 Rikers aerial photo section? Draw an imaginary vertical line through the center of the image. The church-like structure to the right of your imaginary line is the Catholic Rectory and Chapel of the Sacred Heart. Its remodeling for correctional command use prompted historical research leading to the discovery that a second chapel building had existed just across the road. It -- the Protestant Mission House and Chapel -- is the one to the left of your imaginary line. Read about its rediscovery in Finding the 'Lost Chapel' of Rikers Island. Return to top of page. C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC jails governor & Civil War mayor - 7 chapter web bio C. Godfrey Gunther: the volunteer fireman & jails governor who became NYC's 77th mayor. Though a Copperhead, he helped thwart Confederate terrorists trying to burn down the city. Though opposed to replacing volunteer companies with a paid force, he urged 'vol' comrades to obey the law setting it up. Though he led the Lincoln's obsequies, he vetoed their publication. *Copyright on text. © 2001 by the New York Correction History Society and Thomas C. McCarthy. Non-commerical use of text permitted with citation of the society and/or its web site www.correctionhistory.org. Return to top of page. Penal Excerpts from Reminiscences of New York by an Octogenarian (1816-60) By Charles H. Haswell Active in NY's civic life a half-century, Haswell's meticulous notes were published in 1896, the same year Correction emerged as a separate agency. A century later Jackson Era devotee Hal Morris posted them on his Tales of the Early Republic web site. Emphasizing penal law items, NYCHS posts these excerpts with Hal Morris' permission. Return to top of page. DOCS' Fulton CF: 25 Years of Bronx Community Service DOCS' Woodbourne Correctional Facility History -- 1935 to 1999 Penitentiary Origins in New York City: Newgate & Bellevue in Manhattan, Blackwells & Rikers Islands Return to top of page. Anna & Austin's '600' School Rikers Island's Civil War Letters Patriot Prison Window Preserved Return to top of page. Eastern NY CF Centennial Book Evolution of the NYS Prison System Beauty & the Beast At Ludlow St. Jail NYC District Jails: 1800s-to-1949 Return to top of page. Hart Island Mini-History NYC DOC mini-history from '46 annual report The Continuing Story of C.O. George Motchan Rikers' C-76 Names Return to top of page. Celebrating 50 Years Services to Correction Officers & Families NYCHS' 6-Page Excerpts Edition of CCA's 28-Page Captains' Quarterly Al Mandanici 50th Anniversary Issue. Brief History of Hart Island Nike Missile Site -- The Cold War in LI Sound -- By Donald E. Bender Special to the New York Correction History Society Return to top of page. Correctional Association of NY History Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War- Excerpts Edition From Police Sgt. Lonnie Speer's exhaustively researched study published by Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Excerpts focus on NY's POW sites -- Elmira (shown above), Albany, the Tombs, Ludlow St. Jail, and the islands (Rikers, Hart, Bedloe's, Governor's, Ward's, David's, Ft. Lafayette). Birth of NYC Board of Correction Return to top of page. An Excerpts Presentation of The History of the Office of Sheriff by Schenectady County Sheriff Harry C. Buffardi The law enforcement office known today as Sheriff is traced from its Medieval beginnings in Anglo Saxon and Norman England through its transplantation to the American colonies and to the Wild West up to the present era. An Excerpts Presentation of Killer Cop by Mark S. Gado Tombs Inmate Trio Tripped Up Tenderloin's Lieutenant Becker Three in the Tombs impacted the case of the only policeman in the U.S. convicted and executed for murder: Lt. Charles Becker in 1915. Return to top of page. Berkshire Farm and Services for Youth Archives Berkshire Farm youth services began in Canaan in 1886. Its range of child care and juvenile justice services includes placement prevention and placement alternatives. NYC Correction Dept. operates the City Cemetery on Hart Island Also see Recent Tour. Return to top of page. 'Making a Difference for 20 Years: 1979-1999' -- NYC Department of Juvenile Justice Excerpts from DJJ's 20th Anniversary Commemorative Journal. Return to top of page. Excerpts Presentation Of DCJS' Origin of the NYS Bureau of Identification by Michael Harling in HTML format 150 Years in the Forefront: Women's Prison Association & Home Return to top of page. To NYCHS home page Biography of Katharine Bement Davis: in HTML format in Downloadable (PDF) format