Monthly reports and minutes of meetings of boards of managers of state institutions

Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children (Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, N.Y.)

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The Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children was incorporated as a private institution receiving some state aid in 1855 (Chapter 233). The asylum was located within the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in Erie County and was charged to receive destitute and orphaned children from all Indian reservations in the state. It was named for Philip E. Thomas, a benefactor of New York's Indians and early financial backer of the asylum. In 1875 ownership of...

New York (State). Executive Dept.

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The Executive Department resulted from the constitutional reorganization of State government in 1925. Prior to reorganization, the executive branch of the government had grown to include nearly 200 administrative departments, boards, and commissions. Constitutional amendments in 1925 and 1927 abolished or significantly consolidated these offices and expanded the power of the executive office. In 1925 an amendment provided for the consolidation of all administrative agencies into not...

New York State Agricultural and Industrial School.

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The first of the Annual Exhibitions or "fairs" was held in 1908, in part to provide incentive for improved agricultural production. Inmates staged exhibits of livestock, agricultural products, and manufactured goods, and prizes were awarded to individual inmates or colonies in various competitive categories. From the description of Registers of points and prizes awarded at Annual Exhibitions, 1911-1937, bulk 1911-1915, 1917-1933. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 7797172...

New York State Industrial School.

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The Acting Committee met monthly and functioned as the Board of Managers' executive committee. In fact, a board resolution on November 28, 1874, changed the name to the Executive Committee. From the description of Minutes of the Acting Committee (Executive Committee) of the Board of Managers, 1849-1898. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 79191395 ...

New York House of Refuge.

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A 1902 amendment to the State Charities Law created the office of Fiscal Supervisor of State Charities to oversee the financial management and the condition of the buildings, grounds, and property of charitable institutions. The Fiscal Supervisor was authorized to require information from institutions in order to fulfill his mandate to report to the legislature on the funds needed by each institution and why the funds were needed. From the description of Annual inventories of propert...

New York State Women's Relief Corps Home (Oxford, N.Y.)

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New York State Training School for Girls.

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Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)

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New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.

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New York (State). State Commission in Lunacy

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The State Commission in Lunacy was established pursuant to Chapter 283, Laws of 1889 (as amended by Chapter 273, Laws of 1890) and empowered to license, regulate and investigate public and private institutions that provided for the care of the state's mentally ill. It was charged with investigating the care and treatment of patients, the condition of physical facilities and the management of all such institutions; and establishing rules and regulations it deemed necessary and/or desirable to ins...

New York State School for the Blind

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CURRENT FUNCTIONS. The New York State School for the Blind is a state-owned school operated through the State Education Department. Located in Batavia, New York, the school may receive legally blind children for enrollment from the minimum age of admission at five years old, until the course of study is complete or until 21 years of age (preschool through high school programs). Blind residents of the state of suitable age and capacity for instruction are eligible, and appointments a...

St. Lawrence State Hospital (N.Y.)

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New York State Training School for Boys.

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New York State Reformatory (Elmira, N.Y.)

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Letchworth Village (Thiells, N.Y.)

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Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.)

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New York State Hospital for the Treatment of Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Ray Brook, N.Y.)

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Manhattan State Hospital (New York, N.Y.)

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New York (State). Governor

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Articles I and IV of the State Constitution authorize the governor to grant executive clemency to convicted criminials (Executive Law, Sections 15-19). Among the types of clemency offered is restoration of citizensip rights, by which the governor restores civil rights lost as a result of a conviction (e.g. right to vote, right to hold public office). From the description of Restoration of citizenship rights application ledgers, 1857-1902. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id...

Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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Western House of Refuge for Women.

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New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women

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Binghamton State Hospital (N.Y.)

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New York State Hospital for the Care of Crippled and Deformed Children.

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New York State Reformatory for Women.

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Gowanda State Hospital

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Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

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The Willard State Hospital School of Nursing grew out of two-year hospital attendant classes begun in 1887 at Willard Asylum. In 1922, in attempting to standardize education and training of nurses, all nursing schools in the State (affiliated with both general hospitals and mental hospitals) were brought under the authority of the State Education Department. From the description of Willard State Hospital School of Nursing records, 1917-1977. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record...

Long Island State Hospital (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

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New York State Industrial Farm Colony.

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New York (State). Fiscal Supervisor of State Charities.

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Rochester State Hospital (N.Y.)

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Craig Colony for Epileptics.

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New York (State). State Board of Charities

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Legislation enacted in 1875 (Chapter 141) required superintendents of the poor, and other officers charged with relief and support of indigent persons, to furnish keepers and officers in charge of poorhouses and almshouses with "as full information as practicable in relation to each person" whom they had referred to such institutions. Keepers and officers in charge of poorhouses and almshouses were required to record this information on standard forms, retain the forms in their respective instit...

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children (N.Y.)

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An 1851 law provided for the state to undertake the care and teaching of "idiots" (the then accepted term for people with retardation). That year, Dr. Hervey B. Wilbur opened an experimental school, with 20 pupils, at a private residence in Albany, New York. Two years later the legislature appropriated funds to buy land and erect a new institution. A group of Syracuse's most prominent citizens wanted the school located in their city, and offered the trustees 18 acres of free land. The offer was ...

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station

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Mohansic State Hospital (N.Y.)

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Central Islip State Hospital (N.Y.)

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Rome State Custodial Asylum.

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Kings Park State Hospital

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