Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1920-1958.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Gill, Howard B.

Contributor:

District of Columbia. Board of Public Welfare.

Dunham, Lawrence B.

Rockefeller Foundation

Language:

English

Physical Description:

15 items (49 leaves)

Contained In:

Johan Thorsten Sellin Papers. Folders 387-388

Place of Publication:

1920-1958.

Biography/History:

Developed the experiment undertaken at the Massachusetts Dept. of Corrections state prison colony at Norfolk and served as superintendent there.

Summary:

Much of this correspondence is about Gill's project at Norfolk. Additional correspondents include Bureau of Social Hygiene director Lawrence B. Dunham, the District of Columbia Board of Public Welfare (which interviewed Gill for a job) and the Rockefeller Foundation (which had custody of the Norfolk files after the Bureau of Social Hygiene was terminated in 1940) .

Notes:

Contains 7 items (21 leaves) from Thorsten Sellin.

OCLC:

236170454