Letchworth Village records.

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Letchworth Village records.

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Annual reports, photographs, correspondence, typescripts, and clippings that illuminate both the history of a single institution as well as the evolution of care, treatment, and training of people (particularly children) with mental and learning disabilities.

1 linear ft. ( 2 boxes)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7783378

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Letchworth, William Pryor, 1823-1910

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Letchworth was a philanthropist from Erie County, N.Y. Letchworth donated his estate, Glen Iris, to the State of New York. The park is located along the Genessee River in western New York State. From the description of Letchworth State Park Collection, 1907-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407356 Born in Brownville, N.Y. 26 May 1823. Partner in firm of Pratt & Letchworth of Buffalo, N.Y. In 1906 he offered the Glen Iris and his thousand acres to the State of New Y...

Jervis, George J. (George Johnson), 1873-

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Little, Cahrles S.

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Letchworth Village (N.Y.)

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In 1907, New York State officials cited the need for the establishment of a facility to care for the "feeble minded and epileptic." The State purchased 2,000 acres of rolling farm country in Thiells, a Rockland County hamlet, to build the facility. In 1909, the facility was renamed Letchworth Village in honor of William Pryor Letchworth, a noted philanthropist, humanitarian and advocate for the village's creation. Letchworth sought to depart from the mission of custodial institutions built durin...

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...