Research

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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

 

2

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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The series consists of approximately 120 picture post cards, most of which were sent by employees or students of the Syracuse State School to staff members. All cards are stamped and cancelled. The color pictures typically show cities and landscapes primarily, but not exclusively, within New York State. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

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

 

4

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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This series records those released "on parole" from the Syracuse State School, formerly the Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives (until 1919). Most volumes simply list name, date of parole, and date of return or discharge. Occasionally there are references, with dates, to escapes (elopement) .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

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

 

6

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

 

7

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

 

8

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

 

9

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

 

10

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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

 

11

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

 

12

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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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