Research

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Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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This series consists of receipts for articles delivered to the storekeeper from various departments of the Syracuse State School (e.g., knitting room, mending department, and sewing department). Each sheet lists the department from which the items were received; date; and the quantity, size, and description .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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The volumes in this series record time and attendance of staff, presumably at the Syracuse State School (the time books carry no institutional designation). There are no records for the years 1940-1942, 1956-1958, 1963-1965, and information is missing from some months within the date span represented .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives

 

 

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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

 

4

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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The series consists of a small amount of contingent account vouchers (1854-1859) from the State Asylum for Idiots, and special fund estimates (1920-1923) from the Syracuse State School. These are probably only a small part of a larger (unknown) group of institutional finance or purchase records. The .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives

 

 

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This series consists of forms in a "Civil Service Report for the Quarter" covering quarterly time periods ending June 3, 1890 through September 30, 1912. The volume profiles the workforce of the New York State Asylum for Idiots, the Syracuse State School for Feeble-Minded Children, and later the Syracuse .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

6

Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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This series consists of monthly abstracts or analyses of bills paid by the New York State Asylum for Idiots (later the New York State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children). Entries are by type of product or commodity and cover salaries, provisions, utilities, maintenance and repairs, inmate needs .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

7

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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

 

8

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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This series consists primarily of materials pertaining to staffing and employee relations issues. Records include memoranda relating to training, labor-management meetings, and employee classification changes; personal service item estimates; budget statements of personnel requirements; approved staffing .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

9

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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

 

10

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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