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Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
The job book records orders received for printing jobs and includes examples of items printed at Syracuse State School print shop. The shop, part of the vocational program, taught the fundamentals of printing orders list date; item ordered and number of pages in the print run. Printed items range from .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
42
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
43
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
44
Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
The series consists of registers that provide brief narrative evaluations of cognitive and skills development of pupils of the New York State Asylum for Idiots, later the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. The remarks shed light on diagnostic techniques used to assess mental ability .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
45
Creator:
Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives
Abstract:
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
46
Creator:
New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract:
This series documents receipts and disbursements of cash, billing and payments made for facilities maintenance, documentation of funds encumbered and appropriated, and accounting for cash belonging to patients. The records detail the management of patients' funds, expenditures for patient and facilities .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
47
Creator:
New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Title:
Series:
B2388
Dates:
1910-1995
Abstract:
This series contains reports, correspondence, memorandums, policy documents, manuals, newsletters, and other publications that were collected or retained by several entities at the Rome State School (later Rome Developmental Center). The records were assembled for their historical interest, to provide .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
48
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
49
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
50
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Title:
Series:
B1645
Dates:
1912-1931
Abstract:
This series consists of a heredity analysis of applicants to the Syracuse State School. Most entries include multigenerational data on mental conditions or predisposition to "feeble-mindedness" as well as remarks on individual or family medical history or living conditions. Entries include name, date, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
51
Creator:
New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Title:
Series:
B2685
Dates:
1984-1995, undated
Abstract:
This series consists of programs, posters, news articles, correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, and related records that document the centennial celebration of the Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office and its predecessor institutions..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
52
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
53
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
54
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
55
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
56
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
57
Creator:
Syracuse State School
Abstract:
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
58
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
59
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
60
Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
The exhibit material, possibly from of the New York exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 includes illustrations of instructional techniques, student products, and educational programs. Also shown are student activities relating to music, physical education, and sewing from the Syracuse State .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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