Audiovisual history files, [ca. 1970-1994].

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Audiovisual history files, [ca. 1970-1994].

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The series consists of photographic prints and negatives, slide transparencies, synchronized slide shows (with audio tapes and scripts), audio tapes and videotapes, copies of brochures, and scrap books that document patients, employees, programs, and facilities of the Syracuse Developmental Center (SDC), formerly the Syracuse State School.

28.5 cu. ft.Subseries 1: 6 cu. ft. (one 3-inch audiotape; 185 5-inch audiotapes; 41 7-inch audiotapes; 29 cassette tapes; 3,240 scripts)Subseries 2: 1 cu. ft. (24 audiotapes)Subseries 3: 1 cu. ft. (7 7-inch audiotapes; 6 5-inch audiotapes; 2 cassette tapes; 1 newsletter; I brochure)Subseries 4: 1 cu. ft. (28 VHS tapes, 1 Betamax tape)Subseries 5: 6 cu. ft. (ca. 8,219 slides)Subseries 6: 7 cu. ft. (3,330 b/w photos; 6,680 color photos; 2,700 negatives; several hundred consent forms)Subseries 7: .5 cu. ft. (3 albums, including ca. 130 photos)Subseries 8: 4 cu. ft. (ca. 10,000 contact sheets)Subseries 9: .5 cu. ft. (17 8mm motion picture films; 6 16mm motion picture films)

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New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene.

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For the first fifty years of the State's history, local governments and private agencies were responsible for the care of New York State's mentally ill. In 1836 (Chapter 82), the legislature authorized the construction of the State's first mental health institution, the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, which opened in 1843. By 1890, the State had opened nine additional asylums for the mentally ill. Local governments were responsible for expenses of inmates at these asylums and continu...

Syracuse State School.

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Before the facility renovation in 1969-1970, Syracuse State School officials contracted with the firm of Bill Rothschild (Monsey, N.Y.) to comprehensively document the historic buildings by photography. The survey included comprehensive exterior and interior views of the main building, grounds, out-buildings, and other school facilities. A new cornerstone was laid in 1971 for what became the Syracuse Developmental Center. From the description of Photographic survey records, 1969-1970...

Syracuse Developmental Center

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The Syracuse State School was renamed the Syracuse Developmental Center (SDC) in 1973. It provided institutional services for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities requiring the most intensive level of care. The Syracuse Developmental Disabilities Services Office (SDDSO) was one of a statewide network of Developmental Disabilities Services Offices (DDSOs) that provided programs and services for the care, treatment, rehabilitation, education, and training of the mentally ...

New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

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Prior to 1978, the Dept. of Mental Hygiene was responsible for various services to the mentally disabled and mentally ill and for treatment oversight. It received patient admission lists from various public and private treatment facilities throughout New York State. Despite the 1978 split of the department into the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), facilities under the jurisdiction of OMRDD continue...