Wisconsin. Division of Public Assistance: General Administrative File, 1930-1967
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Container Title
Series: Investigation of Milwaukee House of Correction by the State Board of Charities and Reform, 1879
Transcripts of Testimony
Box   1
Volumes I-VI , (10/30/1879 - 11/26/1879)
Box   2
Volumes VII-XII , (12/27/1879 - 12/4/1879)
Note: Indexed by witness. (Volume X missing)
Series: General Investigation of the State Board of Control, 1934-1935
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Box   3
General--miscellaneous clippings
Box   3
Joint resolutions 7A, 58A, 87A, 7S, 112A
Scope and Content Note: Relating to the formation of the legislative investigating committee
Box   3
Letters of confidence in the Board of Control
Box   3
Miscellaneous material
Scope and Content Note: Includes appointments, request for records, related correspondence, reports, editorials.
Box   3
Rules governing procedures and statutes applying to the interpellation proceedings
Scope and Content Note: Includes Chronology of the interpellation proceedings
Box   3
Transcript of testimony, 6/19 - 6/22/34, before the joint investigating committee
Box   3
Legislative and citizens committees reports to governor, 7/3/34
Box   4
Interpellation Proceedings
Scope and Content Note: Includes Proceedings, with index to exhibits; Investigation report; clippings; List of entering employees, 1/1/32 - 2/15/35; List of leaving employees, 1/1/32 - 2/15/35; List of contracts and purchase orders, 1/1/32 - 2/15/35; List of paroles granted, 1/1/32 - 2/15/35; List of paroles revoked, 1/1/32 - 2/15/35; Name key to paroles; List of suspended or discharged employees
Box   4
Exhibits #1-56
Box   4
Miscellaneous correspondence and records sent to legislative committee by the Board of Control
Box   4
Exhibits #90-99
Box   5
Rules of the various institutions
Box   5
Board of Control's general exhibits, #46-80
Central State Hospital Investigation, 1934-1935
Box   5
Copies of interviews submitted by Dr. Deerhake, 1/1934
Box   5
Meeting and testimony, 1/1934
Box   6
Miscellaneous materials
Box   6
Transcript of testimony taken by Legislative committee, 4/1934
Box   6
Letter to governor giving conclusions of Board of Control, 5/1934
Box   6
Hearing on recommendations made by the Legislative committee, 5/1934
Box   6
Committee report to Governor, 4/1934
Box   6
Newspaper clippings
Box   6
Northern Colony Investigation, 1934-1935--General
Scope and Content Note: Report, related correspondence, record system, exhibits
Box   6
Southern Colony Investigation, 1934-1935--General
Scope and Content Note: Reports, related correspondence.
Box   7
Wisconsin State Prison Investigation, 1934-1935--General
Scope and Content Note: Includes Transcript of Joint committee investigation, 4/12/34; and Warden's reports
Northern State Hospital Investigation, 1934-1935
Box   7
Hearing of suspended employees before the Board of Control including minutes of the Board, 3/8 - 3/9/34
Box   7
Applications for positions at NSH, 3/1934
Box   7
Legislative interim committee's recommendations, 3/1934
Box   7
Examination of witnesses
Box   7
Legislative committee investigation: testimony
Box   7
Letter to Governor reporting action of Board of Control, 4/6/34
Box   7
Petitions for re-hearing by suspended employees
Box   7
Novotny's report to Governor, 7/14/34
Box   8
Miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note: Includes Resignations and discharges; Statistics--deaths; Affidavits; Complaints (indexed); Case histories; Patient list; Testimony list; Clippings; Related correspondence
Oscar Schrader Case, 1934
Box   8
Complaint, information, verdict
Box   8
Testimony (on death of Schrader)--Brown, Norton
Box   8
Miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note: Transcript, inquest transcript, hospital record.
Box   8
Clippings (on Schrader case and the subsequent inauguration of the Legislative committee investigation
Wisconsin State Hospital Investigation, 1934-1935
Box   9
Investigation by Legislative Committee, 3/20 - 5/15/34 (indexed)
Physical Description: (2 volumes) 
Box   9
Review of charges against employees
Box   9
List of employees recommended for suspension by Legislative Committee
Box   9
Letter from Governor on WSH investigation
Box   9
Reports of Legislative Committee to Governor, 4/9/34
Box   9
Legislative committee testimony, 3/20/34 (indexed)
Box   10
Legislative committee testimony, 1/27/34 (indexed)
Box   10
Clipping file
Box   10
Statements of employees
Box   11
Exhibit of blanks and forms
Box   11
Records
Physical Description: (6 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note: Day and night records; Supervisors' reports; Hydro record.
Box   11
Notice of hearing of 7/30/34 sent to Governor
Box   11
Forms: subpoena and receipt
Box   11
Miscellaneous materials
Box   11
Record and notes--proceedings of hearing, 7/30/34
Box   12
Statements of patients
Box   12
Argument
Box   12
Findings and decision of Board of Control, 9/27/34
Board of Control hearings (indexed)
Box   12
Volume I (pages 1-1100)
Box   13
Volume II (pages 1101-2173)
Wisconsin State Reformatory
Box   13
Miscellaneous testimony, exhibits
Box   13
Norwich, Nowakowski, Wiggins testimony
Box   14
Clippings
Box   14
Miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note: Testimony, with index; Reports; Related correspondence.
Box   14
Miscellaneous correspondence
Testimony
Box   14
A-E
Box   15
F-Z
Box   15
Series: General Investigations of and by the State Board of Control and the State Department of Public Welfare, 1911-1949
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False Imprisonment, 1918-1938, alphabetical by name of prisoner
Box   16
A-K
Box   17
L-Z
Board of Control General Investigations, 1916-1939
Box   18
Investigation of Board of Control, 1916
Scope and Content Note: Report of State Board of Public Affairs; Conditions in the office of the Board of Control; Suggested remedies; The Board of Control and its transactions; the Accounting system
Box   18
Investigation--employee A. Scherr, 1929
Box   18
Investigation--employee T. Burgardt, 1936
Box   18
Investigation--employee E. Konsavage, 1938
Box   18
Investigation--employee M. Hayes, 1939
Northern Colony Training School General Investigations, 1923-1942
Box   18
General investigation, 1923, legislative visiting committee report
Box   18
General investigation, 1924, inquiry of mismanagement filed by P. Raihle
Box   18
Investigation--patient W. VandeHay, 1930
Box   18
Investigation--employee Dr. M. Lando, 1942
Southern Colony Training School General Investigations, 1930-1945
Box   18
General investigation, 1930 (including list of employees discharged for mistreating inmates, , 1923-1930)
Box   18
Investigation--employee E. Needham, 1945
Wisconsin State Prison General Investigations, 1911-1937
Box   19
Investigation--employee G. Norris, 1911
Box   19
General investigation: statement of C. Woods, 1912
Box   19
Investigation--employee Bloedel (Deputy Warden), 1913
Box   19
General investigation into management of prison, 1913
Box   19
Investigation--employees H. Meyer and R. Schmutz, 1914
Box   19
Investigation--employee R. DeMau, 1917
Box   19
General investigation, 1927
Box   19
Investigation--Pine Lake Farm, 1929
Box   19
Investigation--Oregon Farm Camp, 1930
Box   20
Investigation--inmates J. and S. Mastell, 1931
Box   20
Investigation--inmate L. Killian, 1934
Box   20
Investigation: Green Lake State Farm, 1936
Box   20
Investigation--employee Milton, 1936
Box   20
Investigation--inmate I. J. Rosenberg, 1935-1937
Box   21
Investigation--inmates L. and F. Krueger, 1919-1937
Box   21
Central State Hospital investigation of F. Krueger, 1933
Northern Colony & Training School, General Investigations
Box   21
Investigation -- patient R. Enders, 1935
Mendota State Hospital General Investigations, 1920-1942
Box   22
Investigation--patient T. F. Hayes, 1920
Box   22
Investigation--patient A. Chroninger, 1922
Box   22
General investigation by Board of Control, 1930
Box   22
Investigation--employee L. Berg, 1936
Box   22
Investigation--patient O. Frederickson, 1937
Box   22
General Investigation, 1937
Box   22
Investigation--employee H. J. Schmitz, 1937
Box   23
Investigation--patient F. Finnegan, 1941
Box   23
Investigation--patient O. Moen, 1942
Box   23
Investigation--patients Eldrege and Farnsworth, n.d
Wisconsin School for Boys General Investigations, 1924-1949
Box   23
Investigation--employees Davis, Timmerman, 1924
Box   23
Investigation of attempted escape, 1929
Box   23
Investigation--inmate L. Gajewski, 1930
Box   23
Investigation--employee E. Chellis, 1930
Box   23
Investigation--employee E. Morris, 1945
Box   23
Investigation--employee F. Marbach, 1945
Box   23
Investigation material, 1941
Scope and Content Note: Information on inmates, with their remarks.
Box   23
, 1941-1942 investigation
Scope and Content Note: Minutes, reports, related correspondence.
Box   24
Investigation material, 1943-1944
Scope and Content Note: Interviews, notes, reports, findings, related correspondence.
Box   24
Newspaper Clippings, 1943-1944
Box   24
, 1948-1949 investigation
Scope and Content Note: Discipline; Clippings; List of escapes; Correspondence
Box   24
Material submitted in connection with investigation, 1948
Box   24
Work papers, 1948
Box   24
, 1948 investigation--miscellaneous
Note: Marked “duplicate copies”
Box   25
General documents, 1947
Investigation at institution by Wm. A. Platz, 1948
Box   25
Transcript of testimony, 1948
Scope and Content Note: Sections I and II (330+472 pages) indexed by witness
Box   25
Report--W. A. Platz--letters
Box   25
Platz Report
Box   25
Newspaper Clippings
Box   26
Wisconsin State School for Girls, General Investigations, 1936-1937
Scope and Content Note: Includes information on Investigation of W. Schwab home, 1936-1937
Wisconsin School for the Deaf, General Investigation
Box   26
Investigation of inmate F. Brenkhaus, 1912
Box   26
Wisconsin School for the Blind, General Investigation, 1932-1933 (Hooper investigation)
Scope and Content Note: Anonymous letters; Testimony; 4 folders of Papers sent to Legislative committee by Board of Control (contents listed on each folder)
Box   27
Wisconsin Home for Women, General Investigations, 1933-1934
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous papers, exhibits, correspondence
Box   27
Transcripts through , 12/1933
Box   28
Transcripts, 1934
Wisconsin State Reformatory, General Investigations, 1931-1936
Box   28
Investigation of employee F. Bernhagen, 1931
Box   28
Investigation of employee H. Dudley, 1931
Box   28
Investigation of employee L. Olson, 1936
Wisconsin Child Care Center, General Investigations, 1919-1923
Box   28
Investigation of inmates F. Space, V. Dawson, W. Smith, M. Lacher