Research

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Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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 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 .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives

 

 

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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 Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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 State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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This series consists of copies of specifications printed by the City of New York for purchase of building supplies, dry goods, and raw materials. Most specifications were adopted by the city in 1914. The copy was likely used as a reference for institutional purchases, or for cost estimates and other .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series records materials costs for construction and maintenance projects conducted at the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children and (successor Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives. Projects include plumbing/drainage systems improvements, wiring or telephone installation, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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:

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; .........

 

Repository:  

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 .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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

 

 

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This series consists of a Syracuse State School's record of patient surgeries. Typical procedures include appendectomy, suturing, tonsillectomy. Entries include type of operation; date; patient name; surgeon; surgical assistant; anesthetist (sometimes), and nurse. Early listings note patient's sex; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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This series consists of logbooks recording receipt of packages and letters and Christmas gifts sent to Syracuse State School patients. Log entries include receipt date; recipient name; name and address of sender. Sometimes there is a note that the package remained "unopened." Volumes listing letters .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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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

 

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Creator:

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 .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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 State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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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Creator:

New York (State). Commission to Investigate Provision for the Mentally Deficient

 

 

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This series consists of several hundred black and white photographs illustrating conditions at custodial institutions for the mentally deficient in New York and other states. The photographs were gathered by the Commission to Investigate Provision for the Mentally Deficient to illustrate its final report. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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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

 

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Creator:

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

 

 

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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