The New York State Training School for Girls, located on a high bluff overlooking the Hudson River, was originally built as the New York House of Refuge for Women, which opened in Hudson in 1887 as a “reformatory” for women aged fifteen through thirty. Today, the site houses a medium-security state prison for men.
PPMP contributor Russ Immarigeon has compiled annotated bibliographies that reference articles, reports, and books that describe life at the New York State Training School for Girls, which opened in 1904 and closed in 1975.
The purpose of these bibliographies is to assist local historians and other members of the community to identify a broad range of publications that have addressed life for the girls, staff members, and community residents affected by the New York State Training School for Girls.
Bibliography entries are listed by date of publication, rather than alphabetically, because we feel this provides a better sense of how the institution developed over time. These bibliographies may be updated periodically as we locate and annotate further entries. If you have, or know of, documents that might be included in this bibliography, please contact the Prison Public Memory Project at info@prisonpublicmemory.us
How can you obtain copies of the publications listed in the bibliographies? At the end of some entries, we have provided electronic links or we have indicated where a physical copy of a book or report can be found. For other documents, local college, private, public, and university libraries should be used to obtain available copies at these sites or through inter-library loan. You can find out which libraries have which books through WorldCat.
For those interested in purchasing an available hard copy of a document, the following sites should be searched: AbeBooks, Alibris, Amazon, BookFinder, and Google.
Bibliographies can be downloaded as PDFs below:
Bibliography 2. The New York State Training School for Girls, 1904-1975: An Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography 3. The New York State Training School for Girls: An Annotated Bibliography of Annual Reports, 1904-1928
Bibliography 4. The New York State Training School for Girls (1904-1928): Annual Report Photographs
Bibliography 5. The New York State Training School for Girls (1904-1928): Annual Report Maps