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Committee of Fourteen records

Title
Committee of Fourteen records, 1905-1932.
Author
Committee of Fourteen (New York, N.Y.)
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Additional Authors
  • Baldwin, William H.
  • Hooke, Walter G.
  • Menken, Mortimer, Mrs.
  • Pedersen, James.
  • Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921.
  • Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930.
  • Simkhovitch, Mary K. (Mary Kingsbury), 1867-1951.
  • Slade, Francis Louis.
  • Straus, Percy Selden, 1876-1944.
  • Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959.
  • Whitin, Frederick H.
  • Worthington, George E.
  • New York (N.Y.). Police Department.
  • New York (N.Y.). Tenement House Department.
  • New York (State). Dept. of Excise.
Description
91.69 linear feet (103 boxes, 2 oversize folders).
Summary
  • Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, files and reports of vice investigations, secretary's and treasurer's files, financial records, copies of legislation, legal decisions and records of court cases, printed matter, scrapbooks and clippings.
  • Also, copies of pertinent legislation; legal decisions; minutes of court cases; reports on the criminal justice system; correspondence with officers of the court; files of cases, 1914-1932, brought before the Women's Court; printed matter, ca. 1910-1929; and scrapbooks and loose clippings, 1905-1932, on vice and its reform in New York City.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Minutes (administrative records)
  • Scrapbooks.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
  • Microfilm must be used in lieu of originals when available.
  • are restricted.
Additional Formats (note)
  • available on microfilm;
Source (note)
  • Cushman, J.S.; Worthington, G.E.; Baldwin, W.H.
Biography (note)
  • The Committee of Fourteen was founded in 1905 as a citizens' association dedicated to the abolition of saloons that provided rooms for prostitution (called "Raines Law hotels".) By 1911 most of the saloons had closed up and the Committee's focus turned to the suppression of commercialized vice in New York City with an emphasis on prostitution. By the time the Committee was dissolved in 1932, the focus included crime prevention as well.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
MssCol 609
OCLC
NYPW92-A267
Author
Committee of Fourteen (New York, N.Y.)
Title
Committee of Fourteen records, 1905-1932.
Additional Formats
Military Training Camps materials (boxes 24-25); available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-480
Investigators' daily logs, 1907-1928 (box 26); available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-480
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Access
Microfilm must be used in lieu of originals when available.
Investigators' reports, 1927-1932, are restricted.
Biography
The Committee of Fourteen was founded in 1905 as a citizens' association dedicated to the abolition of saloons that provided rooms for prostitution (called "Raines Law hotels".) By 1911 most of the saloons had closed up and the Committee's focus turned to the suppression of commercialized vice in New York City with an emphasis on prostitution. By the time the Committee was dissolved in 1932, the focus included crime prevention as well.
Finding Aids
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Added Author
Baldwin, William H.
Hooke, Walter G.
Menken, Mortimer, Mrs.
Pedersen, James.
Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921.
Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930.
Simkhovitch, Mary K. (Mary Kingsbury), 1867-1951.
Slade, Francis Louis.
Straus, Percy Selden, 1876-1944.
Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959.
Whitin, Frederick H.
Worthington, George E.
New York (N.Y.). Police Department.
New York (N.Y.). Tenement House Department.
New York (State). Dept. of Excise.
Research Call Number
MssCol 609
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