Rare Book and Manuscript Library
New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village)
New York Juvenile Asylum
6909466
MS#1488
English
/repositories/2/resources/5751
117 linear feet
137 document boxes
1853-1954
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.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in four series.
Restrictions on Access
The Medical Logs (Box 85, Folder 3 and Box 95, folder 1) are restricted. Researchers wishing to use the Medical Logs first must sign a nondisclosure form certifying that they will not publish, or in any way disseminate, names or personally-identifiable information from the Medical Logs. This collection has no other restrictions.
This collection is located on-site.
As of October 2024, access to the New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village) will be mediated by staff, while the index ledgers (volumes 26, 27, 61 and 62) are conserved and prepared for digitization. Please email rbml@columbia.edu for more information. [unprocessed -- for flag only]
Summary
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.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); New York Juvenile Asylum records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Method of acquisition--Transferred from Teacher's College Archives; Date of acquisition--2006.
Biographical / Historical
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 operating in Manhattan for over half a century, the NYJA moved to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where it became a boy's school. In 1920, the institution was renamed Children's Village, and it continues to operate under this name today.
Biographical / Historical
From 1854 to 1905, NYJA occupied a large building in Washington Heights on 176th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. The building was the hub of a larger social services network that extended throughout New York City and into the towns of the West. Children reached the Asylum in several ways. Many were found vagrant or committing petty theft and were delivered to the NYJA by the police. Others were removed from homes that were deemed unfit, and quite a few were surrendered by parents or relatives too poor or too incapacitated to care for children. No matter their origin, children first arrived at the House of Reception on West Thirteenth Street where they were assigned a case number. After a few days assessment at the House of Reception, staff sent appropriate cases uptown to the Juvenile Asylum, where children received six hours of schooling a day as well as moral, religious, and vocational training.
Biographical / Historical
Many of these children traveled to the West (on "orphan trains") where they were indentured to farmers. The NYJA had a permanent agent stationed in Illinois to assist in placing children with families. The Asylum kept track of the children until they reached adulthood, sometimes corresponding with orphans and the families with which they were placed for years. These materials provide abundant information about the experience of "orphan train" children apprenticed to Western states.
Biographical / Historical
Not all children at the NYJA were truly orphans and many were released to parents or family members after periods of financial difficulty had passed. No records exist for these children after they were reunited with families.
Biographical / Historical
At the dawn of the twentieth century, as new ideas about social work spread though the United States, the building in Washington Heights began to feel cramped and outdated. In 1901, the trustees of the NYJA held an architectural design competition for a suburban facility to be built on a farm in Dobbs Ferry, twenty miles north of Manhattan. The winning design featured a cluster of residential cottages that quickly earned the nickname "Children's Village." The new facility had space for less than a third of the youth who had lived in the Manhattan asylum. Before the 1905 move, female, African-American, Jewish, and Catholic children were sent home or to other institutions. In 1920, during a reorganization that promoted a therapeutic model of care, the institution's name was officially changed to "Children's Village." Children's Village still operates as a treatment center and residential facility for boys in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Processing Information
Papers processed April Holm (GSAS 2010) 2009. Papers cataloged Lea Osborne 2010.
Pages from volumes 26, 27, 61, and 62 (digitized in 2025) were rehoused into five flat boxes. These are labelled with their originating volume number, and stored with the NYJA records.
Selected Related Material at Other Repositories
Records of the Children's Aid Society New-York Historical Society. New York, New York.
Selected Related Material at Other Repositories
Papers of Charles Dewey Hilles, 1902-1909 Yale University.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Using the Collection
This collection is not a complete set of all the records produced by the NYJA. Information on
specific individuals may be very limited or entirely missing. The most complete information is
available for children who lived at the asylum between 1880 and 1920. This collection can
provide basic biographical information about children in the asylum including parents' names
and nativity, local addresses, sibling names and ages, religion, behavior, and general
circumstances. Very little of the correspondence about children placed out in the West has
survived; the vast majority of information is in official ledgers and does not include personal
narratives. The collection does not contain any photographs.
When researching a specific child, first consult the register indexes in boxes 26 (1858-
1888), 27 (1888-1923), and 39 (1926-1950). Please use the digitized versions of the ledgers for boxes 26 and 27.
These basic indexes are arranged alphabetically by
last name, but each segment of the alphabet was filled in chronologically as children arrived at
the asylum. If you do not know the year the child was admitted, you must scan the entire section
for the desired name. The index will give you the following information: the child's case
number, her age at time of admission, the dates she was admitted and discharged, and very brief
remarks about how she left the NYJA. Each child received a unique case number upon
admittance that was used throughout her stay in the Asylum. This number is very helpful for use
in locating further information.
With the information obtained from the register indexes, next consult the appropriate Case
Register. These ledgers are arranged chronologically and contain biographical information for
each child. This collection contains Case Registers for the years 1861-1862, 1864-1865, 1878-
1886, 1890-1904, and 1906-1923. Locate the correct register and look up the child by the date
he was admitted. The Register contains information about why the child was admitted, his
parentage, parents' residence, occupation, and social habits, religion, ethnicity, and how and to
whom the child was discharged. Children marked as sent to the Children's Aid Society or CSA
were sent West through that agency. More information can be found using the Children's Aid
Society Records at the New-York Historical Society. The NYJA/CV also maintained a yearly
"Asylum Current Register" cataloging the names of all children currently in residence for a
specific year. These can be used to confirm when children lived at the NYJA but do not contain
further biographical information.
If the child was "placed out" in the West, more information may be available in the
Apprenticeship Records. The most extensive apprenticeship records can be found in boxes 61
(1854-1888) and 62 (1888-1906). These indexes are arranged roughly by date the child was sent
West, but they are not in precise chronological order. To find a particular child, you will have to
scan the ledgers in the approximate date range for the child's name and case number. The entries
in the ledger give information about what happened to the child after she was placed in the
West—sometimes children moved from place to place and sometimes they quickly settled down.
The numbers in the entries appear to refer to correspondence files that are now missing.
Other information can be found elsewhere in the collection. When parents turned a child over to
the NYJA, they signed a "Parent Surrender Form." These forms are in ledgers arranged by date
and case number. They contain very little information but can reveal if parents were literate or if
the child suffered from disability or disease. When parents sought to retrieve their children from
the NYJA, they applied and submitted references. These petitions can be found in the
"Applications for Discharge" ledgers and are also arranged chronologically and by case number.
They give information about parental occupations and social conditions. Social workers also
visited parents and guardians at home to assess their ability to care for minors. The observations
made in these visits are recorded in the Home Visit Records and give a great deal of information
about family life. These records are arranged by date of first visit, but also contain case
numbers.
When researching a specific child in this collection, be sure to scan the finding aid for all ledgers
dating from the years when the child was institutionalized. There are many types of records for
which only a few ledgers survive and these may contain further information about the child.
General
Commonly Used Abbreviations and Terms Asylum: New York Juvenile Asylum. Refers to the main institution building located in
Washington Heights on 176 th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues and used between
1854 and 1905.
CAS: Children's Aid Society. This New York institution was unrelated to the NJYA but
also placed Children in the West. Some NYJA children traveled West through the
CAS—records of the Children's Aid Society can be found at the New-York Historical
Society.
Cath.: Catholic
Col.: Colored
Com.: Committed. Refers to children who were sent to the Asylum by a judge or city
agency.
Company: Group of children sent West together to be placed with families.
Cottages: Refers to the Dobbs Ferry campus used after 1905. (Renamed Children's Village
in 1920.)
H.O.R.: House of Reception. Downtown receiving house for children found homeless or
surrendered by parents located on West Thirteenth Street. Children stayed here before they
were sent to the Asylum.
Int. (or I): Intemperate. Used to describe parents who were not steadily employed or who
were considered immoral--possibly inclined to drink and keep irregular hours.
No Prop. Guard. (or N.P.G.): No Proper Guardian. Used to denote children whose parents
were missing or unable to care for them.
Prot.: Protestant
S.P.C.C.: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Sur.: Surrendered. Refers to children who were voluntarily surrendered to the Asylum by a
parent or guardian.
Temp. (or T): Temperate. Used to describe parents who were regularly employed and not
inclined to drink or keep irregular hours.
West: Sent west on an "Orphan Train."
Charities -- New York (State) -- New York
Children -- Middle West
Children -- Institutional care -- New York (State)
Correctional institutions -- New York (State)
Indentured servants -- Middle West
Juvenile detention homes -- New York (State)
Orphans
Orphanages
Orphan trains
Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York
Runaway children
Social service
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Registers (Lists)
Children's Village (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)
Series I: Administrative Records/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039171853-1954Scope and ContentsThis series contains ledgers pertaining to the overall operation of the New York Juvenile Asylum and Children's Village. The ledgers comprise minutes, correspondence, and financial records. The minutes do not provide a complete record of institutional operation. The correspondence is recorded in copybooks on onionskin and primarily dates to the early twentieth century. The ledger of Admissions, Indentures, and Discharge correspondence contains many original letters interleaved with copies. The financial records also largely consist of copies on onionskin. The Reports of Costs to City and State list the numbers of children housed at the institution each month and were used to collect public funds from the city and state.
Minutes--Committees/repositories/2/archival_objects/603921Indenturing/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039581853-186111Admissions, Indentures, and Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039591862-187212Admissions, Indentures, and Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039601889- 190113Admissions, Indentures, and Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039611920- 193721Applications, House of Reception, Visiting/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039621854- 186322Visiting/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039631864-187123Visiting, Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039641897- 18873Supply/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039651879-189424Minutes--Board of Directors/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039221905-1918 (volume 4)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039661905-19181281918-1925 (volume 5)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039671918-1925129/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039681925- 19354/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039691936- 19525/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039701953- 19546Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/603923Indentures--Outgoing/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039711868-187071Admissions, Indentures, and Discharge, with Invoices-- Incoming and Outgoing,/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039721873-18808Indentures--Regarding Schwartz and Billotti/repositories/2/archival_objects/603973189872General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039741897-190373General/repositories/2/archival_objects/60397519039General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039761904- 190810General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039771905 March-May74General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039781905 September-October111General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039791906112General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039801907 April-June121General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039811907 July-October122General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039821908 February-March131General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039831908 March-June132General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039841908 July-September141General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039851911- 191215General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039861914 April-August142General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039871917 June-December161General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039881919 June-November162General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039891920-1921171General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039901921-1922172General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039911922-1923181General/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039921923-1924182Financial/repositories/2/archival_objects/603924Report of Costs to City and State-- Billing/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039931868-1870 (Cover Only)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041441868-1870964/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041451872-1876191/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041461895-1898192/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041471898-1899193Children Receiving Private Financial Support/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039941894- 1898201Receipts and Payments--"Cash Book"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039951941-194421Series II: General Operation Records/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039181853- 1950Scope and ContentsThe General Operation Records form the heart of this collection and pertain to the movement of children though the asylum system. Many of these records contain unique case numbers that were assigned to each child.
The Registers of Children list the age and important characteristics of new arrivals at the House of Reception, such as race, religion, language spoken, and name and address of parents. These records reveal that NYJA housed Catholic and Jewish, as well as Protestant children, and admitted African-American and immigrant youth. Most of these registers contain case numbers and information about the eventual fate of the child: if she was sent to the Asylum, home to family, or out West as an apprentice. Some unusual cases are marked with additional notes.
Social workers created Home Visit Records when they visited the families of children living in the Asylum to determine whether those families could provide a fit home for children. These visits were conducted for children living in the Asylum who had families with a known address. These ledgers do not all follow the same format. Some contain an Admission form and Discharge form on facing pages. A social worker filled out the first of these forms when a child was removed from his home. The facing, Discharge, form was filled out when a child returned home, sometimes years later. Where noted, some ledgers contain only Admission or only Discharge forms. In these cases, each individual page was dedicated to a single child and only contains information about the condition of that child's home, either when she was admitted to NJYA, or when she was released to her family. The ledgers provide a wealth of detail about home life and living arrangements among poor and immigrant New Yorkers in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Parent Surrender Forms were used when parents or family members relinquished control of their children to the institution. These are brief forms and contain little more than children's names and the names and signatures (or marks) of the parents.
Apprentice Records kept track of older children indentured to homes in the West. The records contain information about the lives and experiences of these children and the families who took them in. Indentured children and the families who housed them reported their progress and satisfaction with placement regularly. The NYJA maintained contact with these children until they reached adulthood, and sometimes afterward, if formerly indentured children remained in contact. The Apprentice Records therefore give an excellent overview of the experience of "orphan train" children.
Transfer Slips record where children were sent (usually to the NYJA) after arriving at the House of Reception.
Applications for Discharge were required of all parents and guardians wishing to retrieve their children from the asylum. The forms record how fit the applicants are to care for a child and whether discharge was granted or denied. Most of the children applied for were discharged to their guardians.
Register of Children (Alphabetical Index with Case Numbers)/repositories/2/archival_objects/603925"NYJA Register No. 1"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039961858-188826"NYJA Register No. 1", 1858-1888
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"NYJA Register No. 2"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039971885-192327"NYJA Register No. 2,", 1885-1923
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"Children's Village Index and Register"--Case Numbers 44827-51300/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039261926-195039Case Records/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039271853- 185422Case Numbers 28576-37035/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039281891-190224Case Registers--House of Reception/repositories/2/archival_objects/60392920Case Numbers 5705-6567/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039981860202Case Numbers 6568-7367/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039991861 January-December203Case Numbers 7368-8323/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040001862204Case Numbers 8234-9658/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040011863- 1864231Case Numbers 9485-10508/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040021864-1865232Case Numbers 10371-12025/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040031866233Case Numbers 12021-12947/repositories/2/archival_objects/60400418671301Case Numbers 12943-13838/repositories/2/archival_objects/60400518681302Case Numbers 13797-15336/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040061869-18701303Case Numbers 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37529-37938/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040321903 January-July116Case Numbers 37939-38172/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040331903 August-December117Case Numbers 38173-38677/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040341904 January-August118Case Numbers 39242-39844/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040351906-1909119Case Numbers 39845-40448/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040361909-1911120Case Numbers 40449-41050/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040371911-1914121Case Numbers 41051-41652/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040381914-1916122Case Numbers 41653-42259/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040391916-1918123Case Numbers 42260-42863/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040401918-1919124Case Numbers 42864-43467/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040411919-1921125Case Numbers 43468-44063/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040421921-1923126Case Numbers 44064-44337/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040431923127"Register of Children Sent to the Asylum" (Chronological)/repositories/2/archival_objects/60393025Case Numbers 11700s-18100s/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040441867- 1875251Case Numbers 18100s-26100s, 1875-1887 (Index without Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040451875-1887252Case Numbers 26130-31734, 1888-1896 (Index without Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040461888-1896253Case Numbers 31715-40691--"Transfers from House of Refuge to Cottages,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040471897-1912254"Girl's Admissions and Discharge Register," 1881-1897 (Alphabetical)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040481881-1897255Asylum Current Register (Alphabetical Index with Case Numbers)/repositories/2/archival_objects/603931/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040491896- 189828/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040501898- 190129/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040511901- 190330/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040521903- 190531/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040531905- 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Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040671903-1904461904 (Admissions)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040681904471903-1905 (Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040691903-1905481904-1905 (Admissions and Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040701904-1905491905-1907 (Admissions and Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040711905-1907501910-1911 (Admissions and Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040721910-1911511910-1912 (Admissions and Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040731910-1912521912-1914 (Admissions and Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040741912-1914531913-1915 (Admissions and discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040751913-1915541915-1917 (Admissions)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040761915-1917551917-1918 (Admissions and Discharges)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040771917-1918561918-1919 (Admissions)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040781918-191957Parent Surrender Forms/repositories/2/archival_objects/603933/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040791853- 1861581/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040801867-1870582/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040811873-1875591/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040821876-1878592/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040831878-1880593/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040841888-1891601Apprenticeship Records/repositories/2/archival_objects/603934Index to Apprentice Register--Alphabetical/repositories/2/archival_objects/60408565/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041481862- 1878651/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041491879-1901652/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041501902-1906653/repositories/2/archival_objects/604151circa 1900s1361/repositories/2/archival_objects/604152Undated(2 volumes)1362 to 3Indentures/Case Notes, 1854-1888 (with Case Numbers)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040861854-188861Indentures/Case Notes, 1854-1888 (with Case Numbers), 1854-1888
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Indentures/Case Notes, 1888-1906 (with Case Numbers)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040871888-190662Indentures/Case Notes, 1888-1906 (with Case Numbers), 1888-1906
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Indentures/Case Notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040881868-1879602Indentures/Case Notes, 1871-1876 (Arranged by Date and Group)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040891871-187663Indentures/Case Notes, 1876-1880 (Arranged by Date and Group)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040901876-188064"N. Y. Juvenile Asylum Agents Record," 1862-1868 (with Case Numbers)/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040911862-186898Record of Employer and Apprentice/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040921869- 1870603Transfer Slips--House of Reception/repositories/2/archival_objects/60393565Case Numbers 33281-3, 4139 January-June, 1899/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040934139 January-June1899654Case Numbers 37251-37727/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040941902- 1903661Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/60393667Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040951862-186367Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040961864-186568Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040971865-186769Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040981867-186970Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6040991869-187071Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041001871-187372Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041011873-187573Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041021875-187774Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041031877-187975Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041041879-188176Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041051881-188377Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041061883-188578Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041071885-188779Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041081887-188980Applications for Discharge/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041091889-189481House of Reception Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041101885- 1898662House of Reception Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041111899-1905133Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041121928-1938663Discharges/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041131939-1946831Series III: Daily Logs/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039191858-1953Scope and ContentsThis series contains records of daily activity in the NYJA and Children's Village, including visitor's registers, daily events, runaways, and medical and school records. They offer a fragmented but illuminating glimpse into daily operations at the institution.
Physicians' Certificates certified that children who entered the asylum system were in good physical and mental health and free of infectious diseases. Inspecting doctors could record any health problems that were present. Almost all the children were found to be healthy and given a clean bill of health.
The Doctor's Orders Books and Medical Logs were kept at the Children's Village infirmary. The former records medical treatments prescribed by physicians and the latter lists the complaints of children who visited the nurse each day.
Visitors' Logs/repositories/2/archival_objects/603937/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041141858- 1900832/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041151901-1905841Daily Log/repositories/2/archival_objects/603938/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041161899- 1902842/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041171914-1917843/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041181917-19211332/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041191936-19411333Log of Runaways/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039391929-1935851Children's Village "Day Book" (Admissions, Discharges, Enrollment--with Case Numbers)/repositories/2/archival_objects/603940/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041201925- 193386/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041211933- 194087/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041221940- 194188Physicians' Certificates/repositories/2/archival_objects/603941/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041231886-188789/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041241887- 188890/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041251888- 188991/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041261889- 189092/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041271890- 189193/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041281892- 189394/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041291893- 1894134/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041301894- 1895135"Doctor's Orders Book"/repositories/2/archival_objects/603942/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041311949- 1951852/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041321951-1952853Medical Log/repositories/2/archival_objects/603943/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041331951- 1952854Notes on Treatment--Charles Jerome/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039441899-19065/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041341952-1953951School Records "Roll Books"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039451897- 1898 Volume 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041351897- 18989521897-1898 Volume 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041361897-1898961Series IV: Children's Village/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039201921-1936Scope and ContentsThe 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
"Brief Survey of Children's Village,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039461929(2 Folders)962 to 3Minard, G. C. to Edmund Dwight/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039471934 December 6965New York University Studies and Reports/repositories/2/archival_objects/60394897"First Semi-Annual Statement Concerning Educational Re-Organization at Children's Village,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041371931971"A Little Theatre for Children's Village," Mary Allen Tippett/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041381931972"Report on the Francis McMillan School of Carpentry," Hugo J. P. Vitz,/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041391931973"Report on the Michael Friedsam School of Masonry," Hugo J. P. Vitz/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041401931974"Report on the Willets-Schulte Plumbing School," Hugo J. P. Vitz/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041411931975"Report on the Lytelton Deane Electrical School," Hugo J. P. Vitz/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041421931976"Prevocational Building Study,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6041431931977"From Juvenile Asylum to Treatment Center," Peter Carr Sexias, M.A. Thesis,/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039491981978"Open Letter from the President to the Members of the Board of Directors,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039501926 September 15979"Proceedings of the National Conference of Juvenile Agencies,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039511936 September9710School of Printing Motto/repositories/2/archival_objects/603952Undated9711"School Program for the Problem Child,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/60395319329712"Second Annual Report,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039541932 August 319713"Seventieth Annual Report"--Pamphlet/repositories/2/archival_objects/60395519219714"Third Annual Report and Second School Bulletin,"/repositories/2/archival_objects/60395619339715Fundraising Correspondence--Scrapbook/repositories/2/archival_objects/6039571929137