Society for the Prevention of Crime records, 1878-1973

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Allen, Frederick Lewis


Box 1 Baldwin, Roger Nash


Box 1 Battle, George Gordon


Box 1 Belmont, Eleanor Robson


Box 1 Bernays, Edward L.


Box 1 Biddle, Francis


Box 1 Blanshard, Paul


Box 1 Bliss, Cornelius Newton, Jr.


Box 1 Braden, Spruille


Box 1 Burlingham, Charles Culp


Box 1 Caniff, Milton


Box 1 Canner, Carl Lamson


Box 1 Choate, Joseph Hodges, Jr.


Box 1 Cortelyou, George Bruce


Box 1 Crowther, Bosley


Box 1 Damrosch, Walter


Box 1 Davis, Noah


Box 1 Dewey, Thomas Edward


Box 1 du Pont, Pierre Samuel


Box 1 Ellin, Stanley


Box 1 Farrar, John Chipman


Box 1 Field, Marshall


Box 1 Finley, John Huston


Box 1 Flagler, Harry Harkness


Box 1 Fosdick, Harry Emerson


Box 1 Harlan, John


Box 1 Hogan, Frank Smithwick


Box 1 Holmes, John Haynes


Box 1 Holt, Hamilton


Box 1 Hoover, John Edgar


Box 1 Howe, Louis McHenry


Box 1 Impellitteri, Vincent H.


Box 1 Isaacs, Stanley Myer


Box 1 Jerome, William Travers


Box 1 Johnson, Alvin Saunders


Box 1 Kinsey, Alfred Charles


Box 1 Kirchwey, George Washington


Box 1 La Guardia, Fiorello Henry


Box 1 Lehman, Herbert Henry


Box 1 Lewisohn, Sam A.


Box 1 Lexow, Clarence


Box 1 Lukas, Paul


Box 1 McAneny, George


Box 1 McCall, Edward Everett


Box 1 McCay, Winsor Zenic


Box 1 Mannes, Marya


Box 1 Manning, William Thomas


Box 1 Markel, Lester


Box 1 Marshall, Margaret


Box 1 Morgenthau, Henry


Box 1 Moses, Robert


Box 1 Odell, Benjsnin Barker


Box 1 Parkhurst, Charles Henry


Box 1 Parsons, Herbert


Box 1 Prendergast, William A.


Box 1 Pulitzer, Ralph


Box 1 Riis, Jacob August


Box 1 Rockefeller, John Davison, 3d.


Box 1 Rustin, Bayard


Box 1 Schieffelin, William Jay


Box 1 Schwab, Charles M.


Box 1 Shulman, Irving


Box 1 Slicer, Thomas Roberts


Box 1 Smith, Alfred Emanuel


Box 1 Straus, Nathan


Box 1 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays


Box 1 Van Doren, Irita Bradford


Box 1 Wald, Lillian D.


Box 1 White, Horace

Series II: General Files



Box 2 Letters to Frank Moss, 1890-1902



Box 3 Correspondence between Samuel Marcus and Howard Clark Barker, and others, 1913-1920



Box 4 Correspondence of Howard M. Bassett, George Drew Egbert, George F. Hammond, Henry N. Pringle, Samuel Marcus, Harry Sussman and others; reports, clippings, etc., 1923-1940



Box 5 Correspondence of Paul Bianshard, Benjamin M. Day, Edwin J. Lukas, and others; reports, press releases, etc., 1941-1950



Box 6 File of Bernhard K. Schaefer: correspondence, reports, accounts, etc. (including the Vocational Foundation Bureau and "A history of the Society for the Prevention of Crime." [1969] by Paul W. Rishell & Albert E. Roraback, 113



Box 7 File of Bernhard K. Schaefer: correspondence, reports, accounts, etc. (including the Vocational Foundation Bureau and "A history of the Society for the Prevention of Crime." [1969] by Paul W. Rishell & Albert E. Roraback, 113



Box 8 File of Bernhard K. Schaefer: correspondence, reports, accounts, etc. (including the Vocational Foundation Bureau and "A history of the Society for the Prevention of Crime." [1969] by Paul W. Rishell & Albert E. Roraback, 113



Box 9 File of Bernhard K. Schaefer: correspondence, reports, accounts, etc. (including the Vocational Foundation Bureau and "A history of the Society for the Prevention of Crime." [1969] by Paul W. Rishell & Albert E. Roraback, 113

Series III: Administration



Box 10 Annual reports, 1920-1949


Box 10 Board of Directors; Board of Trustees. Correspondence, 1937-1953



Box 11 Certificate of incorporation - typescript copies



Flat Box 598 Administration: Certificate of incorporation of the Societ for the Prevention of Crime, 29 October 1878. Signed by Peter Cooper, S. Irenaeus Prime, Henry Drisler, Noah Davis, and others



Box 11 Committees, 1946-1951


Box 11 Constitution and by-laws, 1923-1942


Box 11 Dexter bequest - correspondence, 1914-1936

[Henry Dexter, 1813-1910, philanthropist and President of the American News Company, made a bequest to the Society in his will which was contested on behalf of his daughter - legal papers, 1910-1936]



Box 12 Dexter bequest - printed legal briefs and other documents, 1910--1936


Box 12 Executive Committee, 1945-1951


Box 12 Expansion plans, 1941-1949



Box 13 Minutes, 1909-1934



Box 14 Minutes, 1924-1952



Box 15 Minutes, 1942-1952



Box 16 Minutes - The City Vigilance League of New York -- --Board of Trustees -- --Executive Committee -- --General Committee, 1895-1898



Box 17 Plan and Scope Committee, 1933-1941


Box 17 Staff applications, 1937-1950



Flat Box 598 Whitney, David J. Memorial Volume, 1892

Formerly described as "oversize #6"

Series IV: Essay Contest



Box 17 "The best program of practicable steps to reduce law-breaking in New York City", 1926

Series V: Financial



Box 18 Account books, 1877-1946



Flat Box 598 Account book, 1935-1941



Box 19 Account book, 1931-19xx


Box 19 Accounts, 1922-1935


Box 19 Auditor's reports



Box 20 Banks, 1941-1954


Box 20 Budget, 1951


Box 20 Insurance record, 1935-1939


Box 20 Investment Committee, 1925-1953


Box 20 Green, Ellis & Anderson, 1936-1945


Box 20 J. & W. Seligman & Co., 1943-1953


Box 20 Receipts, 1938-1940


Box 20 S.P.C. Holding Company, 1905-1953


Box 20 Stock certificates (blank book), 1932


Box 20 Taxes, 1936-1955


Box 20 Treasurer's reports, 1946-1954


Box 20 Misc., 1928-1944

Series VI: Parkhurst, C. H., 1892-1955

(1842-1933) Pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, was President of the Society from 1891 to 1908 and a leader in the reform movement in New York City politics. A memorial to him was proposed for Madison Square but was never built.



Box 21 Parkhurst Testimonial, 1894


Box 21 Parkhurst Luncheon, 1922


Box 21 Parkhurst Memorial - correspondence, reports, clippings, photos, etc., 1928-1936



Box 22 Parkhurst Memorial - correspondence, etc., 1935-1941


Box 22 The New Yorker articles on Parkhurst, 1955

Series VII: Publicity


Box 22 Fund raising, 1940-1951


Box 22 Projects, 1945-1949


Box 22 Radio promotions, 1948-1950


Box 22 Releases, 1943-1949

Series VIII: Radio Programs


Subseries VIII.1: Papers



Box 23 Crime--causes and prevention, 12 September 1946


Box 23 Criminal casebook, 1948


Box 23 American Broadcasting Company, 1945-1949


Box 23 Convict releases, 1945-1949


Box 23 Critical comments, 1945-1949



Box 24 Criminal casebook -- --Prospects -- --Publicity -- --Requests for aid -- --Scripts 1-10 & 13 -- --Sources - criminal & paychiatrist, 1948



Box 25 I was a convict -- --Correspondence with convicts, releases, case histories, scripts, etc.; A - G, 1945-1949



Box 26 I was a convict: Correspondence, etc.: H



Box 27 I was a convict: -- --Correspondence, etc.: P - W -- --Maxwell, Robert, Associates (Producer) -- --Miscellaneous -- --Publicity -- --Receipts -- --Scripts, Jan. - March 1946 & [n.d.]



Box 28 I was a convict -- --Scripts: April 1946 - June 1947 -- --Sponsors


Subseries VIII.2: Phonograph Discs, 1946-1947

This subseries consists of an incomplete set of transcriptions of the radio program "I Was A Convict." These three boxes contain 78 16-inch aluminum-base transcription discs that were found in a closet in Lehman Library in 2019, in boxes numbered 1, 3, and 5. The item numbers are the number written on the sleeve of each phonograph record. The dates are transcribed from the "Date recorded" given on the label. The serial numbers were also transcribed from the labels.



Box 68 Item 70-72 "Open Letter" from Edwin J. Lukas, Executive Director of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, 3 phonograph records



Box 67 Item 10 "I Was a Convict", 1946-01-03, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 8-9351


Box 67 Item 11 "I Was a Convict", 1946-01-03, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 8-9374


Box 67 Item 12 "I Was a Convict", 1946-01-12, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 8-9817


Box 67 Item 13 "I Was a Convict", 1946-01-19, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-0029


Box 67 Item 14 "I Was a Convict", 1946-01-26, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-0318


Box 67 Item 15 "I Was a Convict", 1946-02-02, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-0674


Box 67 Item 17 "I Was a Convict", 1946-02-16, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-1310


Box 67 Item 23 "I Was a Convict", 1946-03-30, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-3370


Box 67 Item 24 "I Was a Convict", 1946-04-06, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-3785


Box 67 Item 25 "I Was a Convict", 1946-04-13, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-4140


Box 67 Item 26 "I Was a Convict", 1946-04-20, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-4512


Box 67 Item 27 "I Was a Convict", 1946-04-27, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-4824


Box 67 Item 28 "I Was a Convict", 1946-05-04, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-5133


Box 67 Item 29 "I Was a Convict", 1946-05-07, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-5302


Box 67 Item 30 "I Was a Convict", 1946-05-11, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-5487


Box 67 Item 31 "I Was a Convict", 1946-05-18, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-5806


Box 67 Item 32 "I Was a Convict", 1946-05-25, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-6081


Box 67 Item 33 "I Was a Convict", 1946-06-01, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-6366


Box 67 Item 34 "I Was a Convict", 1946-06-08, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-6661


Box 67 Item 35 "I Was a Convict", 1946-06-15, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-6912


Box 67 Item 36 "I Was a Convict", 1946-06-22, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-7218


Box 67 Item 37 "I Was a Convict", 1946-06-22, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-7396


Box 67 Item 38 "I Was a Convict", 1946-06-29, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 9-7460



Box 68 Item 73-74 "I Was a Convict", 1947-01-08, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-5285


Box 68 Item 75-78 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-22, 4 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9959


Box 68 Item 79 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-24, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-0057


Box 68 Item 80-83 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-29, 4 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-0302


Box 68 Item 84-85 "I Was a Convict", 1947-05-01, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-0386


Box 68 Item 86-87 "I Was a Convict", 1947-05-08, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-0657


Box 68 Item 88-89 "I Was a Convict", 1947-05-15, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-0905


Box 68 Item 90-91 "I Was a Convict", 1947-05-22, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-1151


Box 68 Item 92-95 "I Was a Convict", 1947-05-29, 4 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-1517



Box 69 Item 122-123 "I Was a Convict", 1946-10-03, 2 phonograph records


Box 69 Item 124, 147 "I Was a Convict", 1947-03-06, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-7762


Box 69 Item 125-126 "I Was a Convict", 1947-03-13, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-8068


Box 69 Item 127-128 "I Was a Convict", 1947-03-27, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-8685


Box 69 Item 129-130 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-03, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9015


Box 69 Item 131-132 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-10, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9349


Box 69 Item 133-134 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-12, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9482


Box 69 Item 135 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-15, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9635


Box 69 Item 138-139 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-17, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9742


Box 69 Item 136-137 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-17, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9637


Box 69 Item 140 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-15, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 10-9636


Box 69 Item 141 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-14, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-1957


Box 69 Item 143, 142, 144 "I Was a Convict", 1947-04-08, 3 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-0674


Box 69 Item 145 "I Was a Convict", 1947-10-24, 1 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-7951


Box 69 Item 146, 148 "I Was a Convict", 1947-10-24, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-7962


Box 69 Item 149-150 "I Was a Convict", 1947-10-28, 2 phonograph records

Serial number: 11-8150

Series IX: Scrapbooks



Flat Box 598 Compiled by Edwin Jay Lukas, 1888-1948


Flat Box 598 Compiled by Edwin Jay Lukas, 1941-1950

Series X: Subjects



Box 29 Acceptance of offenders by the armed forces, 1940-1942


Box 29 Adolescent girls, 1939-1947


Box 29 Adolescent treatment clinic, 1941-1948


Box 29 Alcoholism, 1938-1950


Box 29 Alien enemy material, 1941-1942


Box 29 Armed forces. See: Acceptance of offenders by the armed forces


Box 29 Armed services criminality, 1944-1946



Box 30 Albany Crime Conference, 1931-1938



Box 31 Behavior problems & children's institutions, 1946-1950


Box 31 Bail, 1941


Box 31 Bibliographies, 1944-1951


Box 31 Brownsville Boys Club, 1943-1949



Box 32 Capital punishment. See: Murderers & capital punishment Cartoons



Flat Box 598 Political cartoon: "Tapped Wires" by Winsor Zonic McCay, Depicts Kingsbury, Woods, and Mitchel. Signed by W.Z. McCay.



Flat Box 597 Cartoons



Box 32 Cases; A - R, 1896-1951



Box 33 Cases: S - Y & misc., 1932-1950



Box 34 Child adoption legislation, 1939-1951



Box 35 Child labor, 1942-1949


Box 35 Children. See: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children


Box 35 Children. See; War & children


Box 35 Children's Court, 1938-1949


Box 35 Children's institutions. See: Behavior problems & children's Inst.


Box 35 Civil Service, 1941-1944


Box 35 Civil rights, 1949


Box 35 Civil rights. See also: Race


Box 35 Comic books. See: Motion pictures, magazines


Box 35 Correction & penal institutions (1), 1932-1945



Box 36 Correction & penal institutions (2), 1946-1950


Box 36 Court interpretations. See: Legislation & court interpretations


Box 36 Courts, 1941-1951


Box 36 Courts. See: Children's Court


Box 36 Courts. See: Youth Court


Box 36 Courts; Brooklyn County Clerk's Office - annual report (County Court), 1940



Box 37 Crime & delinquency, 1932-1951


Box 37 Crime & delinquency: other countries, 1933-1949


Box 37 Crime causation. See: Popular concepts of crime causation


Box 37 Crime statistics. See; Delinquency & crime statistics


Box 37 Criminology, 1934-1949


Box 37 Delinquency. See; Crime & delinquency


Box 37 Delinquency & crime statistics, 1939-1946



Box 38 Delinquency & crime statistics (1), 1947-1951



Box 39 Delinquency & crime statistics (2), 1947-1951



Box 40 Delinquency, unofficial (non-statistical), 1943


Box 40 Detention, 1939-1950



Box 41 Detention facilities (1), 1938-1946



Box 42 Detention facilities (2), 1947-1951


Box 42 Drugs, 1936-1939


Box 42 Education (1), 1938-1944



Box 43 Education (2), 1945-1950



Box 44 Egbert, George Drew Sermons, 1935-1936

[G.D. Egbert was President of the Society from 1933 to 1940 and Pastor of the First Congergational Church, Flushing, NY]


Box 44 Foster home care, 1946-1949


Box 44 Foundations, 1943


Box 44 Gambling (1), 1906-1934



Box 45 Gambling (2), 1935-1955


Box 45 Gang activities, 1943-1951



Box 46 Government, 1931-1939


Box 46 Guidance clinics, 1949



Box 47 Health, 1943-1949


Box 47 Housing, 1937-1950



Box 48 Legislation & court interpretations, 1941-1951



Box 49 Lexow Committee: Minutes, Vol. 2 & Vol. 1 -- -- "Investigations of the Police Department and other departments of the city of New York by a committee of the Senate; 1894; Vol. II; Frank Moss of Counsel for Committee" -- -- "Lexow Committee's original minutes; Vol. IV; 1894"



Box 50 Marriage and divorce, 1947-1950


Box 50 Mental deficiency, 1938-1950


Box 50 Miscellaneous, 1901-1950


Box 50 Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics in relation to delinquency (includes many comic books), 1938-1948



Box 51 Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics ... (2), 1947 & 1948



Box 52 Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics (3) (includes the censorship trial of The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman), 1949-1950


Box 52 Murderers & capital punishment, 1939-1949


Box 52 Narcotics, 1938-1951


Box 52 New York City. Juvenile Aid Bureau. See: "Politics and children"


Box 52 New York State. See: Albany Crime Conference


Box 52 New York State. Legislature. Senate. Committee on the Police Department of the city of New York. See: Lexow Committee


Box 52 Pari-mutual legislation, 1938-1940


Box 52 Parole. See: Probation & parole


Box 52 Parolees. See: Problems of prisoners & parolees


Box 52 Penal institutions. See: Correction & penal institutions


Box 52 Planned parenthood, 1941-1946



Box 53 Police, 1945-1951


Box 53 Police. See also: Lexow Committee "Police and children" -a study of New York City's Juvenile Aid Bureau, 1949


Box 53 Popular concepts of crime causation, 1946-1949


Box 53 Population statistics, 1939-1948


Box 53 Post war planning, 1942-1951



Box 54 Preventive measures, 1942-1951



Box 55 Probation & parole, 1936-1951


Box 55 Problems of prisoners & parolees, 1942-1949



Box 56 Prostitution, 1923-1951



Box 57 Psychiatric cases & notes (1), 1928-1945



Box 58 Psychiatric cases & notes (2), 1946-1950



Box 59 Race discrimination amendment, 1944-1950


Box 59 Race prejudice (1), 1941-1947



Box 60 Race prejudice (2), 1948-1950


Box 60 Race prejudice. See also: Civil rights


Box 60 Rackets, 1933


Box 60 Radio, 1944-1948


Box 60 Radio. See also: Motion pictures, magazines, radio



Box 61 Recreation & nursery care, 1940-1949


Box 61 Religion, 1940-1949


Box 61 Sex education, 1943-1949


Box 61 Sex offenders (1), 1935-1946



Box 62 Sex offenders (2), 1947-1950


Box 62 Shulman, Irving The Amboy Dukes See: Motion pictures


Box 62 Social action, 1941-1950


Box 62 Social work (1), 1935-1947



Box 63 Social work (2), 1948-1949


Box 63 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1900-1942


Box 63 Treatment programs, 1939-1951


Box 63 Venereal disease, 1939-1948



Box 64 Vocational education, 1935-1948


Box 64 War & children, 1942-1944


Box 64 War criminals, 1942-1949


Box 64 Welfare societies, 1937 & 1938


Box 64 Youth, 1940-1949



Box 65 Youth correction authority, 1940-1949


Box 65 Youth Court (1), 1919-1941



Box 66 Youth Court (2), 1942-1951