Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

This collection consists of papers and correspondence of Homer Folks, (1897-1963), social worker.

This collection is comprised of a register of childrens' names and their backgrounds, agreements between the child's guardian and the Society, Executive Board minutes, application notes and lists of dismissed children.

This collection documents the foundation and operation of the Hillcrest Center for Children, a foster care institution that cared for children in Bedford Hills, NY from 1956 to 1977.

Research files, correspondence, and other papers of Gerald E. Markowitz and David Rosner, public health historians, authors, and educators. Materials relate to their work teaching as well as researching the Northside Center for Child Development and mid-twentieth century issues of youth and race in New York City. Included are various reports, clippings, interview transcripts, and papers of relevant organizations and individuals.

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.