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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This collection consists primarily of ledgers used for record keeping at the New York Juvenile Asylum and Children's Village. The collection of ledgers, while large, is also fragmentary and represents a minority of the total volume of records NYJA produced. The majority of the ledgers document the movement of children through the asylum system, from arrival at the House of Reception to discharge to family or apprenticeship in the West. The ledgers also concern financial operations, committee minutes, and daily operations at the Asylum in Manhattan as well as the Dobbs Ferry Children's Village campus. Correspondence copybooks contain onionskin paper impressions of letters regarding institutional operations. Several of the ledgers contain papers and correspondence interleaved with the bound pages. Many are in fragile condition. A small number of reports and papers from a 1931 institutional survey are also included.

113 linear ft. (26 document boxes, 1 half document box, 100 custom-made boxes)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7939201

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

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

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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 ...