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Series I: Administrative Records, 1853-1954
Series II: General Operation Records, 1853- 1950
Series III: Daily Logs, 1858-1953
Series IV: Children's Village, 1921-1936

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

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Series I: Administrative Records, 1853-1954

This 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


Box 1 Folder 1 Indenturing, 1853-1861

Box 1 Folder 2 Admissions, Indentures, and Discharges, 1862-1872

Box 1 Folder 3 Admissions, Indentures, and Discharges, 1889- 1901


Box 2 Folder 1 Admissions, Indentures, and Discharges, 1920- 1937

Box 2 Folder 2 Applications, House of Reception, Visiting, 1854- 1863

Box 2 Folder 3 Visiting, 1864-1871


Box 3 Visiting, Books, 1897- 1887


Box 2 Folder 4 Supply, 1879-1894

Minutes--Board of Directors


Box 128 1905-1918 (volume 4), 1905-1918


Box 129 1918-1925 (volume 5), 1918-1925


Box 4 1925- 1935


Box 5 1936- 1952


Box 6 1953- 1954

Correspondence


Box 7 Folder 1 Indentures--Outgoing, 1868-1870


Box 8 Admissions, Indentures, and Discharge, with Invoices-- Incoming and Outgoing,, 1873-1880


Box 7 Folder 2 Indentures--Regarding Schwartz and Billotti, 1898

Box 7 Folder 3 General, 1897-1903


Box 9 General, 1903


Box 10 General, 1904- 1908


Box 7 Folder 4 General, 1905 March-May


Box 11 Folder 1 General, 1905 September-October

Box 11 Folder 2 General, 1906


Box 12 Folder 1 General, 1907 April-June

Box 12 Folder 2 General, 1907 July-October


Box 13 Folder 1 General, 1908 February-March

Box 13 Folder 2 General, 1908 March-June


Box 14 Folder 1 General, 1908 July-September


Box 15 General, 1911- 1912


Box 14 Folder 2 General, 1914 April-August


Box 16 Folder 1 General, 1917 June-December

Box 16 Folder 2 General, 1919 June-November


Box 17 Folder 1 General, 1920-1921

Box 17 Folder 2 General, 1921-1922


Box 18 Folder 1 General, 1922-1923

Box 18 Folder 2 General, 1923-1924

Financial

Report of Costs to City and State-- Billing


Box 96 Folder 4 1868-1870 (Cover Only), 1868-1870


Box 19 Folder 1 1872-1876

Box 19 Folder 2 1895-1898

Box 19 Folder 3 1898-1899


Box 20 Folder 1 Children Receiving Private Financial Support, 1894- 1898


Box 21 Receipts and Payments--"Cash Book", 1941-1944