RG 097 Board of Control

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The Board of Control was created by the 27th General Assembly and organized on April 6, 1898 to manage, control, and govern the charitable, reformatory, and penal institutions of the state. In 1968, the 62nd General Assembly. combined the programs of the Board of Control (of State Institutions) with the Board of Social Welfare and created a new agency, the Department of Social Services, to administer existing programs and policies.

Some or all of these records are available to search in the Iowa History Collections Catalog

General
TitleDate Span
Bulletins of State Institutions, The Hawkeye1938-1958
Consecutive Registersc.1900-1970
Consecutive Registers - Men's Penitentiary (Fort Madison) Index1916-1970
Consecutive Registers - Men's Reformatory (Anamosa) Index1916-1970
Consecutive Registers - Women's, Reformatory (Rockwell City)1917-1928
Construction Project Files1922-1958
Correspondence of State Architect1905-1909
Employee Manuals1958-1967
Financial Records, Monthly Balances1940-1958
Minutes1898-1968
Minutes - Index1898-1913
Miscellaneous Attorney General Rulings and Decisions1940-1968
Photographs, State Institutions and Buildings1975-1985
Population Reports of Inmates or Prisoners in State Institutions1910-1950
Real Estate Deeds, Land Sales, Land Transfers, Contracts and Easements1930-1960
Statistical Data and Rules and Regulations for County Homes1916-1953