Research

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Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Newark Developmental Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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The series consists of published volumes of annual reports made consecutively by the trustees of the New York State Asylum for Idiots, from which Newark was first created as an experimental branch; the board of managers of the New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women; the board of managers .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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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; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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This series consists of an assortment of books from the Syracuse State School and its predecessors indexing parts of various unspecified institutional records. The correlation of the indexes to the ledgers, journals, registers, or other volumes they index is unknown; only two of the volumes have titles .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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

 

12

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office

 

 

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This series consists of photographs; key plot plans; blueprints; articles on the school; and assorted records representing accumulated research on the history of the Syracuse State School compiled prior to the laying of the cornerstone of a "new" Syracuse State School in 1971. Included is information .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of payrolls, correspondence, bills, receipts, contracts, abstracts of vouchers, and one resolution for various New York State asylums including: New York State Asylum for Idiots, New York Lunatic Asylum, Binghamton Asylum for the Insane, New York State .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

15

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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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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

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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