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New York State Asylum For Idiots, Fourth Annual Report Of The Trustees
At a meeting of the board, convened to consider the above report, a communication was received from several of the prominent citizens of Syracuse, offering to give to the trustees a site for the proposed Asylum near their city, of not less than ten acres; or, as an equivalent, the sum of seven thousand and five hundred dollars, for the purchase of a site....
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Title: New York State Asylum For Idiots, Fourth Annual Report Of The Trustees
Creator: n/a
Date: January 23, 1855
Format: Annual Report
Source: Steve Taylor Collection
Keywords: Albany, NY; Architecture; Asylums; Ceremonies; Children; Cognitive Disability; Correspondence; Doctors; Economics; Edouard Seguin; Education; Educational Institutions; England; France; Government; Government Agencies; Hervey B. Wilbur; Identity; Idiocy; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Landscape; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Policy; Politics; Public Welfare; Religion; Samuel Gridley Howe; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics; Syracuse, NY; William Seward; Work
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy