Research

1

Creator:

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 .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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This series documents "Team B," a self-advocacy group for the developmentally disabled. The records provide information on the team's activities and evidence of how the team functioned and governed itself. This series includes memoranda, correspondence, speeches, testimony to commissions and legislative .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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

 

4

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

 

5

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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

 

6

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..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

7

Creator:

Syracuse Developmental Center

 

 

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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