Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene
Abstract:
The series consists of patient admission lists from mental health institutions. Lists show patients admitted to the facility; date admitted; name; birth date; age; citizenship status; town of residence; legal status; and the name and mailing address of a legally liable relative or guardian. Records .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Title:
Series:
B1671
Dates:
1897-1910
Abstract:
The series consists of registers that list items "Issued from [the] Storeroom" of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children during 1897-1910. Items were issued to various departments, such as the "Boys' Building," Fairmount, the bakery, hospital, and the "Superintendent's House." Headings .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
This series consists of accounts of money received and expended by the New York State Asylum for Idiots and the Syracuse Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. Accounts show bills paid; institutional receipts and disbursements and statements for goods purchased. Included are superintendent's accounts; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
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
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Title:
Series:
20147
Dates:
1927-1983
Abstract:
Prior to 1978, the Department of Mental Hygiene was responsible for services to the mentally disabled and mentally ill, and for treatment oversight. It received patient admission lists from public and private treatment facilities throughout the state. This series consists of admission lists from those .........
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 Institution for Feeble-Minded Children
Abstract:
This series consists of receiving registers that list items received at the "Storehouse" of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children during 1907-1916. A variety of foodstuffs and dry goods, including utensils, equipment, and materials are listed as "goods." Headings for entries in both .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract:
This volume documents date of visit, name of visitor, address or agency, and sometimes title of visitor to the Rome Developmental Center and its predecessor, the Rome State School. The volume seems to have been used only occasionally and only scattered dates are documented. The register is only partially .........
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 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 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
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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
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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
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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
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 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
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