Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Taconic Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Title:
Series:
B2797
Dates:
2005-2013
Abstract:
This series contains the subject files of former deputy directors of the Taconic Developmental Disabilities Services Office. Included are the records of Mark Searle, Barbara Stapholz, and Michael Kirchner. Files consists of meeting minutes, monthly reports, personnel files, memorandums, and other re.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
2
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Title:
Series:
B1654
Dates:
1945-1968
Abstract:
The series consists of monthly reports of the board of visitors and the director of the Syracuse State School, as well as minutes of general and girls' staff meetings held at the school. Laws establishing the school and appointing its board of visitors and superintendent (later director) required such .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State Asylum for Idiots
Abstract:
The series consists of minutes of meetings of the "Executive Committee" of the New York State Asylum for Idiots, held roughly once a month between 1855 and 1891. Meetings are described as "informal" in the minutes, and the bulk of entries list bills audited. Lists show vendor/company and amount owed. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
4
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
This series consists of volumes recording monies received by the Syracuse State School for support of pupils (perhaps private pay). Information includes date, name of payee, amount received, student name, and initials of the official receiving the funds. There are no entries for the period January 9, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of purchase orders for goods sent to vendors by the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. Entries show order date, company/vendor name, description of goods and cost. Copies that were poorly pressed are hard to read. Also included is an alphabetical name .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
This series consists of accounts of money received and expended by the New York State Asylum for Idiots and the Syracuse Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. Accounts show bills paid; institutional receipts and disbursements and statements for goods purchased. Included are superintendent's accounts; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
The series consists of ten reports to the State Board of Charities by the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children for fiscal years 1884/85 through 1893/94, and for 1900/01. Each two-page report form provides "schedule" and "compensation" data in seven broad categories: officers of the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
The series consists of annual reports that were transmitted to the State Legislature or the Department of Mental Hygiene as required by law. Included are annual reports of the trustees of the New York State Asylum for Idiots and annual reports of the Syracuse State School..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Governor (1955-1958 : Harriman)
Abstract:
This series consists of Governor W. Averell Harriman's copies of meeting minutes from the various Boards of Visitors from state institutions. Also included are reports to the Boards of Visitors by the director or superintendent of the institution under the Board's care or reports of the Boards of Visitors .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
This series records those who escaped from Syracuse State School during the period 1934-1953. Entries are arranged according to the month in which the escape was reported; this roughly corresponds to a chronological arrangement by actual escape date (an escape may have occurred earlier than the month .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
11
Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
This series records deaths of residents at the New York State Asylum for Idiots (1851-1890), later known as the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children (1891-1895). Basic information includes number, name, age, sex, date admitted, and date of death. Following are more detailed narratives .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
This series records those released "on parole" from the Syracuse State School, formerly the Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives (until 1919). Most volumes simply list name, date of parole, and date of return or discharge. Occasionally there are references, with dates, to escapes (elopement) .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
This series consists of registers, organized by county, listing those admitted to the Syracuse Developmental Center (from the time it was called the New York State Asylum for Idiots, through all successive institutional name changes). The first volume lists name; town; class; age; sex; color; nativity; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
This series consists of monthly payrolls "of attendants and servants" at the New York State Asylum for Idiots (1876-1890) and the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children (1891-1911). Occupations of those listed include cook, baker, seamstress, table girl, nurse, attendant, gardener, hall .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
The series consists of monthly census summaries enumerating, by gender, the population of the Syracuse State School and its outlying colonies and cottages. Aggregate numbers, not names of individuals, are provided. Data document the expansion of the institution's colony system, as well as how regular .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
16
Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Title:
Series:
B1684
Dates:
1835-1903
Abstract:
This series consists of account books of receipts and disbursements by New York State Asylum and the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children for board and clothing expenses for private pay students. Volume 1 shows cash received on account for "paying pupils." Entries include date; name; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
These historic photographs were collected and displayed by Syracuse Developmental Center staff in the facility's museum. Most images date from the 1920s when the institution was the Syracuse State Institution for Mental Defectives; half of them are student portraits..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
This series contains an assortment of unrelated records that were apparently removed from institutional records for purposes of research or exhibit. Volumes include: an admissions book (July 1925-June 1926); a parole/elopement book (May-December 1917); a book of escapes (April 1953-August 1957); a clothing .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Title:
Series:
B1652
Dates:
1962-1965, 1967-1975
Abstract:
Subject files of the director of Syracuse Developmental Center include staff meeting minutes, statistical charts on residents, monthly and annual departmental reports, manuals, handbooks, publications, and a small amount of general planning and administrative files. Of special interest is a small number .........
Repository:
New York State Archives