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Josephine Shaw Lowell police station visitation report
Title:
Josephine Shaw Lowell police station visitation report
Description:
Josephine Shaw Lowell was a prominent social reformer and member of the Women's Prison Reform Committee. Report describing the conditions and holding facilities of multiple New York police stations, with an emphasis on amenities for police matrons and women prisoners.
Date:
1895-05-04
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Women's Prison Reform Committee letter to Police Commissioners extract
Title:
Women's Prison Reform Committee letter to Police Commissioners extract
Description:
Extract of a letter sent to Police Commissioners concerning the employment of police matrons across New York City, written on Women's Prison Reform Committee stationary. Based on inspections of police stations employing matrons in 1894, the Women's Prison Reform Committee recommends the transfer of current matrons to locations with higher rates of women prisoners and more need for their services.
Date:
1897-02
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Title:
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Description:
Fragment. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a prominent social reformer and member of the Women's Prison Reform Committee. Report describing the conditions and holding facilities of multiple New York police stations, with an emphasis on amenities for police matrons and women prisoners. Inspected by members of the Women's Prison Reform Committee, including Lowell, Anna M. Jackson, Mrs. Davis (probably Katharine B. Davis), and Mrs. Curtis.
Date:
1895-05-07
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Title:
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Description:
Josephine Shaw Lowell and Anna M. Jackson were prominent social reformers and members of the Women's Prison Reform Committee. Report describing the conditions and holding facilities of multiple New York police stations, with an emphasis on amenities for police matrons and women prisoners. States the Committee's recommendations for the Chairman to enforce certain regulations. Includes notes and a letter to the Board of Police concerning the inappropriate conduct of a matron name Caroline M. Fox, whom the Committee opposed receiving a pension.
Date:
1899-11-08
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Title:
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Description:
Josephine Shaw Lowell was a prominent social reformer and member of the Women's Prison Reform Committee. Report describing the Seventh Precinct police station on Madison Street and its holding facilities, which could be fitted to hold women prisoners. Inspected by members of the Women's Prison Reform Committee.
Date:
1895-02-24
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Title:
Women's Prison Reform Committee police station visitation report
Description:
Possibly a fragment. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a prominent social reformer and member of the Women's Prison Reform Committee. Report describing the conditions and holding facilities of multiple New York police stations, with an emphasis on amenities for police matrons and women prisoners. Inspected by members of the Women's Prison Reform Committee, including Lowell, Anna M. Jackson, Mrs. Davis (probably Katharine B. Davis), and Mrs. Curtis.
Date:
1895-05-06
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Women's Prison Reform Committee record book
Title:
Women's Prison Reform Committee record book
Description:
Record book of the Women's Prison Reform Committee (New York Chapter), documenting meeting minutes and the Committee's actions. Anna M. Jackson was the Chairman of the Committee. Includes a lists of members' names and addresses.
Date:
1894-1897
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ellen Collins letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Ellen Collins letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Ellen Collins was a philanthropist. Describes a New York police station and its holding facilities, which she believes would benefit from the presence of a matron to manage women prisoners.
Date:
1895-05-09
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ellen Collins letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Ellen Collins letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Ellen Collins was a Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, social reformer, and member of the executive committee of the Woman's Central Association of Relief. Discusses multiple police matrons, including her interaction with a matron named Mrs. Reynolds. Describes the procedures and conditions for women prisoners and children whose parents have been arrested.
Date:
1870-1912
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Prison Reform Committee record book
Title:
Prison Reform Committee record book
Description:
Record book of the Women's Prison Reform Committee (New York Chapter), primarily documenting the Committee's actions and petitions to police/prison administrators. Anna M. Jackson was the Chairman of the Committee. Includes a list of members' names and addresses.
Date:
1897-1907
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ellen Collins letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Ellen Collins letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Ellen Collins was a Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, social reformer, and member of the executive committee of the Woman's Central Association of Relief. Written on U.S. Sanitary Commision stationery. Asks Gibbons to work as superintendent of the Island Hospital on Blackwell's Island, organizing the Volunteer Kitchen and the women Penitentiary workers. Asks Gibbons for a recommendation if she is unable to fill the position, mentioning Miss Woolsey as a possibility.
Date:
1864-09-08
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary W. Poor letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Mary W. Poor letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Glad to hear of the prosperity of The Home (later called the Isaac T. Hopper Home), a shelter for women ex-convicts. Discusses her experiences at the asylum for female inmates that she managed for a month, and considers plans for its future management. Hopes that Gibbons will visit the asylum and give constructive criticism. Talks about the mother of the late Col. Charles E. Griswold, who requests an introduction to Gibbons. Praises Gibbons for her work with soldiers' families.
Date:
1866-06-10
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ellen Collins letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Ellen Collins letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Ellen Collins was a Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, social reformer, and member of the executive committee of the Woman's Central Association of Relief. Written on U.S. Sanitary Commision stationery. Suspects Gibbons did not receive her last letter asking Gibbons to accept the position of superintendent at the hospital on Blackwell's Island. Mentions that Gibbons might be interested in helping the poor women who work there. Gibbons was currently working as an army nurse at Beverly Hospital in New Jersey.
Date:
1864-09
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Phebe C. Wright letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Phebe C. Wright letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Phebe C. Wright was a Quaker who was involved in peace and suffrage movements. Summary of Wright's impressions of women's prisons. Believes "there ought to be a school for nursing in every Reformatory for women." Discusses upcoming meetings on women's suffrage and education.
Date:
1894-06-26
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Burrill Curtis letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Elizabeth Burrill Curtis letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Discussion of jail committees concerning arrested women and police matrons.
Date:
1899-03-14
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
W. M. F. Round letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
W. M. F. Round letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
William M. F. Round was a journalist and reformer. Asks Mariana Wright Chapman to help him prepare for a series of prison addresses by providing resources on women prisoners.
Date:
1894-12-07
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mira Sharpless Townsend letter to Samuel Townsend
Title:
Mira Sharpless Townsend letter to Samuel Townsend
Description:
Addressed to her husband Samuel Townsend. Primarily discusses her interaction with various social reformers, charitable institutions, and people in need while in New York City. Recounts her time at the Tombs (Manhattan Detention Complex), the Moral Reform Office, and Institution for the Friendless. Discusses Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols and her medical facility, an editor named Mrs. Ingraham, and others. Mentions her attempts to contact social reformer Abby Hopper Gibbons and others. Was listed as a vice president in the annual report of a reform society.
Date:
1848-07-03
Collection:
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mira Sharpless Townsend letter to Samuel Townsend
Title:
Mira Sharpless Townsend letter to Samuel Townsend
Description:
Addressed to her husband Samuel Townsend. Says she is staying with health reformer Mary Gove. Discusses her interactions with reformer Abby Hopper Gibbons and her family, who she accompanied to Randall's Island, Blackwell Island, and the "prisoners home". Details the holiday festivities and distribution of toys to the children on Randall's Island. Details the poor prisoner conditions on Blackwell Island; says she believed many of the women inmates "ought to be Rosines" and distributed multiple pamphlets and letters. Mentions accompanying James Gibbons to Bellevue Hospital and Magdalene asylum. Plans to visit the Tombs (Manhattan Detention Complex) the next day.
Date:
1848-07-06
Collection:
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Theo A. Bingham letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Theo A. Bingham letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Theo A. Bingham was the New York City Police Commissioner from 1906 to 1909. He writes that he is happy to comply with Anna Jackson's request to appoint a matron at Flushing as soon as they have sufficient police matrons available. He will also give consideration to her request to have a room set aside for "respectable or ill women when arrested."
Date:
1907-01-05
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Benjamin B. Odell letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Benjamin B. Odell letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Benjamin B. Odell served as the Governor of New York from 1901 to 1904. Responds to Jackson's letter on behalf of the Women's Prison Reform Committee concerning the Bedford Reformatory for Women; assures her the proposed legislation will not harm the inmates of the Reformatory.
Date:
1903-02-23
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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