Search

Start Over "Children" Collection New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village), 1853-1954

New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village), 1853-1954 117 linear feet

Children -- Middle West
Children -- Institutional care -- New York (State)
Runaway children
New York Juvenile Asylum
The collection is composed primarily of ledgers used in the operation of the New York Juvenile Asylum, a reception center, home, and placement agency for orphaned, abandoned, and impoverished children. The Asylum operated in Manhattan from 1853 until 1905 when it moved to a rural campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1920 the Asylum was renamed Children's Village. The collection provides copious information about the experience of poor and orphaned children, children sent West on "orphan trains," social work, and the home life and living arrangements of poor and immigrant New Yorkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Series IV: Children's Village, 1921-1936

The bulk of this series consists of a 1931 New York University study of Children's Village, along with papers and plans for new buildings on the campus. These documents were produced as part of an initiative to modernize the curriculum to reflect current educational and therapeutic developments. The series also contains published pamphlets and programs reporting on the progress of Children's Village in the early twentieth century

  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village), 1853-1954