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Collection: Documents - Catalog Card
| EXCERPT: Another important consideration for a conspicuous position was, that a subject like this, entirely new to our citizens, should be so prominently presented as to secure public attention and provoke inquiry into its merits; that thus the current prepossessions against this hapless class might be converted into sympathy and beneficence.... |
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New State Asylum For Idiots, Third Annual Report Of The Trustees |
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February 1, 1854 |
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Annual Report |
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Steve Taylor Collection |
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Albany, NY; Architecture; Asylums; Children; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Economics; Education; Government; Hervey B. Wilbur; Idiocy; Institutions; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Policy; Politics; Public Welfare; Schools; Statistics |
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