Research

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Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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

 

2

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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

 

3

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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

 

4

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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

 

5

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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

 

6

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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

 

7

Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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