New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village), 1853-1954

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New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village), 1853-1954

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The collection is composed primarily of ledgers used in the operation of the New York Juvenile Asylum, a reception center, home, and placement agency for orphaned, abandoned, and impoverished children. The Asylum operated in Manhattan from 1853 until 1905 when it moved to a rural campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1920 the Asylum was renamed Children's Village. The collection provides copious information about the experience of poor and orphaned children, children sent West on "orphan trains," social work, and the home life and living arrangements of poor and immigrant New Yorkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

117.5 linear feet (137 boxes: 31 document boxes, 1 half document box, 105 ledgers in custom-made boxes)

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6347614

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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New York Juvenile Asylum

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The New York Juvenile Asylum (NYJA) was founded in 1851 by a group of prominent businessmen and professionals concerned about vagrancy among poor children in New York City. The Asylum was designed to house, educate, reform, and find placement for the numerous homeless and runaway boys and girls found daily on the streets of New York. The founders conceived of the Asylum as a place for non-delinquent children--an alternative to the punitive House of Refuge for young criminals. After ...

Children's Village (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)

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