Historic prints and photographs, [ca. 1878-1990]

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Historic prints and photographs, [ca. 1878-1990]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79679972

The series consists of historic photographic prints (early 19th century - 1925) and later era photographs (to 1970) primarily of children shown in their school environment or as individual portraits taken for case files or descriptive admission applications. Since these images were kept among records stored by the Syracuse Developmental Center's museum, it is likely that they were gathered for their possible exhibit value, or retained after microfilming. Also present is a small amount of print material that may or may not be related to the images. There are very few negatives.

1.4 cu. ft. (including ca. 420 photographs)

New York State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8235317

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