Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Commission to Investigate Provision for the Mentally Deficient
Abstract:
This series consists of completed surveys from public school principals in New York providing information on students in classes for the mentally deficient. Information includes number of special classes, teachers, and students; special training received by teachers; and student personal information .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
The series consists of approximately 120 picture post cards, most of which were sent by employees or students of the Syracuse State School to staff members. All cards are stamped and cancelled. The color pictures typically show cities and landscapes primarily, but not exclusively, within New York State. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives
Title:
Series:
B1640
Dates:
1894-1920
Abstract:
The series consists of dietary records of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, which was renamed in 1919 as the Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives. The registers list separate breakfast, dinner, and supper menus for family, employees, and pupils according to date and b.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
This series consists of reports, checklists, and notes of visits to the Syracuse State School and its colony facilities, by Department of Mental Hygiene medical inspectors. Earliest reports show Inspector's arrival and departure dates and times; patient census; new admissions; accidents; educational .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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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
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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
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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 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
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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:
These files include photographs, slides, audio and videotapes, brochures, and scrapbooks that depict operations at Syracuse Developmental Center and its predecessor, the Syracuse State School. Included are images of Special Olympics; celebrations and achievements of patients and employees; educational .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
The series consists of daily registers that record the population and activities of patients at the Syracuse State School and its predecessors. Starting in 1883, the asylum purchased and remodeled farm buildings at which older students were placed to learn farming and to produce crops. By 1931 the Syracuse .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
This series consists of ledgers, cards, and "clothing books" that record purchase, cost, and/or distribution of clothing and shoes among students/patients. Ledgers show patient name, item and cost. Girls' clothing books are arranged by year, then alphabetically by type of clothing. Date and name of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Title:
Series:
B1643
Dates:
1850-1897
Abstract:
An 1851 law provided for the state to undertake the care and teaching of "idiots" (the contemporary term for people with certain developmental disabilities). The New York State Asylum for Idiots, with a capacity for 100 residents, was completed on August 10, 1855. The series consists of 19th century .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State School
Title:
Series:
B1647
Dates:
1851-1945
Abstract:
This series documents admissions; discharges and transfers of the New York State Asylum for Idiots; the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children; the Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives and the Syracuse State School. Information is also present in some volumes for death, parole, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
The series consists of clipping files and a small amount of publicity material tracing the history and development of the Syracuse Developmental Center. The files were likely kept by the institution's museum..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
The series consists of a group of logbooks that record visits to/from various institutional sites by residents, employees, state officials, and private citizens over a span of many years. The exact place for which visitation is monitored is not always specified..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Title:
Series:
B1692
Dates:
circa 1950-1970, 1979, undated
Abstract:
These materials depict children and staff in various therapeutic, educational, and recreational settings, classrooms, buildings, and grounds of the Syracuse State School. Also include are a history of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, a portrait of Dr. Hervey Wilbur, and records .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse Developmental Center
Abstract:
Photographs take 1878-1925 consist of images of children in their school environment and in individual portraits taken for case files or descriptive admission applications. Later 20th century images show institutional activities like woodworking, farming, sports, and picnics. Some images are enlarged .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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