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By Dr. Robert L. Gold |  |
NYCHS' 9-page presentation of
Searching Sing Sing for My Father: Harry N. Gold,
Inmate #76577Y, 1924-1930 |
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Brooke Kroeger's Nellie Bly | Daredevil + Reporter + Feminist
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5-Page NYCHS excerpts presentation:
Bly in Blackwell's Island Madhouse (Before, During & After) |
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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.
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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 Island Can 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.
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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. HaswellActive 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. |
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 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 |
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