Summary Information
Wisconsin School for Boys: Inmate Case History Books
1860-1950
- Wisconsin School for Boys
Series 2176
9 c.f. (30 volumes).
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of juveniles admitted to the institution between August 1860 and December 1950. Each record includes name, case number, date of birth, date of reception, official from whom received, date and court of commitment, reason for commitment, sentence, family history, previous history of inmate, education, physical condition upon admission, nationality, religion, at whose expense child was kept, institutional history, school record, parole record, and comments. The school was primarily a male institution, but accepted females before 1870 and on isolated occasions thereafter.
There is a restriction on access to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.
English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02176 ↑ Bookmark this ↑
Arrangement of the Materials
By case number, assigned chronologically by date of admission to the institution.
Other Finding Aids
Series 2179, Index to case numbers, 1860-1944 is a name index to this series. Series 2101, Master file cards, 1921-1993 may be used as a name index for inmates admitted after 1944. In Series 2101, case numbers for the Wisconsin School for Boys may appear with the prefix “WSB.”
Also, there is a general guide to Division of Corrections case records at the Archives Reading Room Reference Desk. The guide describes all case records at the Archives for men, women, boys and girls in the Wisconsin corrections system since 1837.
Related Material
Series 2177, Inmate admission record, 1897-1899 and Series 2178, Inmate case file summaries, 1943-1948 contain related records. Series 81, Investigations, 1851-1959 and Series 1926, [Division of Departmental Research] Files, 1939-1955 contain records of investigations of the Wisconsin School for Boys.
Administrative/Restriction Information
These records are confidential under § 48.78, Wisconsin Statutes.
Processed by Lee C. Grady, May 19, 1997.
Contents List
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Volume
1
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#1 - 320,
1860 Aug. 3 - 1865 May 19
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Volume
2
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#321 - 711,
1865 June 3 - 1870 Nov. 15
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Volume
3
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#713 - 1,110,
1870 Nov. 28 - 1874 Dec. 22
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Volume
4
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#1,111 - 1,500,
1874 Dec. 23 - 1878 April 1
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Volume
5
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#1,501 - 1,979,
1878 April 2 - 1882 Sept. 25
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Volume
6
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#1,981 - 2,498,
1882 Oct. 2 - 1887 July 30
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Volume
7
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#2,500 - 3,019,
1887 July 30 - 1890 Dec. 17
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Volume
8
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#3,020 - 3,519,
1890 Dec. 18 - 1893 Oct. 3
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Volume
9
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#3,520 - 4,017,
1893 Oct. 3 - 1896 May 2
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Volume
10
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#4,018 - 4,499,
1896 May 2 - 1899 May 30
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Volume
11
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#4,500 - 5,000,
1899 June 1 - 1902 Sept. 2
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Volume
12
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#5,001 - 5,500,
1902 Sept. 3 - 1905 July 24
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Volume
13
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#5,501 - 6,000,
1905 July 26 - 1908 July 20
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Volume
14
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#6,001 - 6,500,
1908 July 21 - 1911 Aug. 9
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Volume
15
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#6,501 - 7,000,
1911 Aug. 9 - 1914 July 10
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Volume
16
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#7,001 - 7,500,
1914 July 12 - 1917 March 24
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Volume
17
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#7,501 - 8,000,
1917 March 24 - 1919 April 11
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Volume
18
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#8,001 - 8,500,
1919 April 11 - 1921 Oct. 7
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Volume
19
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#8,501 - 9,000,
1921 Oct. 12 - 1925 May 11
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Volume
20
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#9,001 - 9,500,
1925 May 3 - 1927 Nov. 1
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Volume
21
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#9,501 - 10,000,
1927 Nov. 2 - 1930 March 4
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Volume
22
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#10,001 - 10,500,
1930 March 4 - 1932 April 23
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Volume
23
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#10,501 - 11,000,
1932 April 23 - 1934 Sept. 15
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Volume
24
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#11,001 - 11,500,
1934 Sept. 14 - 1937 July 16
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Volume
25
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#11,501 - 12,000,
1937 July 17 - 1939 Dec. 27
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Volume
26
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#12,001 - 12,500,
1939 Dec. 29 - 1942 Dec. 20
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Volume
27
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#12,501 - 13,000,
1942 Nov. 20 - 1944 Sept. 2
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Volume
28
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#13,001 - 13,500,
1944 Sept. 5 - 1946 April 13
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Volume
29
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#13,501 - 14,000,
1946 April 16 - 1948 June 25
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Volume
30
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#14,001 - 14,509,
1948 June 28 - 1950 Dec. 7
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