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
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"
(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.
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
Box 67 Item 11
"I Was a Convict", 1946-01-03, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 12
"I Was a Convict", 1946-01-12, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 13
"I Was a Convict", 1946-01-19, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 14
"I Was a Convict", 1946-01-26, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 15
"I Was a Convict", 1946-02-02, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 17
"I Was a Convict", 1946-02-16, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 23
"I Was a Convict", 1946-03-30, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 24
"I Was a Convict", 1946-04-06, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 25
"I Was a Convict", 1946-04-13, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 26
"I Was a Convict", 1946-04-20, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 27
"I Was a Convict", 1946-04-27, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 28
"I Was a Convict", 1946-05-04, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 29
"I Was a Convict", 1946-05-07, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 30
"I Was a Convict", 1946-05-11, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 31
"I Was a Convict", 1946-05-18, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 32
"I Was a Convict", 1946-05-25, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 33
"I Was a Convict", 1946-06-01, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 34
"I Was a Convict", 1946-06-08, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 35
"I Was a Convict", 1946-06-15, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 36
"I Was a Convict", 1946-06-22, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 37
"I Was a Convict", 1946-06-22, 1 phonograph records
Box 67 Item 38
"I Was a Convict", 1946-06-29, 1 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 73-74
"I Was a Convict", 1947-01-08, 2 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 75-78
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-22, 4 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 79
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-24, 1 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 80-83
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-29, 4 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 84-85
"I Was a Convict", 1947-05-01, 2 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 86-87
"I Was a Convict", 1947-05-08, 2 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 88-89
"I Was a Convict", 1947-05-15, 2 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 90-91
"I Was a Convict", 1947-05-22, 2 phonograph records
Box 68 Item 92-95
"I Was a Convict", 1947-05-29, 4 phonograph records
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
Box 69 Item 125-126
"I Was a Convict", 1947-03-13, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 127-128
"I Was a Convict", 1947-03-27, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 129-130
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-03, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 131-132
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-10, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 133-134
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-12, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 135
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-15, 1 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 138-139
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-17, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 136-137
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-17, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 140
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-15, 1 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 141
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-14, 1 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 143, 142, 144
"I Was a Convict", 1947-04-08, 3 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 145
"I Was a Convict", 1947-10-24, 1 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 146, 148
"I Was a Convict", 1947-10-24, 2 phonograph records
Box 69 Item 149-150
"I Was a Convict", 1947-10-28, 2 phonograph records
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