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A chart of illustrations showing letters of the alphabet through hand signs

Exercises of the Pupils of the NY Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
A planning diagram of buildings for housing different groups of people on Blackwell's Island

Survey of Blackwell’s Island
Illustration of a 19th Century classroom

The Idiot School
A map showing buildings on islands in the East River

Map of Randall’s, Hart, and Blackwell’s Islands
A stereoscopic slide with photos taken from two slightly different angles shows around 100 schoolgirls seated in a large auditorium with several women teachers in the background.

Grammar School No. 33, New York City, Assembled for Morning Exercises
Around 10 schoolchildren of various races and genders line up with ballots in hand. One of two women teachers is placing a ballot in a box on a desk.

First Patriotic Election in the Beach Street Industrial School
Newspaper clipping

Cisco on Trial in Queens
Text of a court decision

People ex rel. Cisco v. School Board of Queens, excerpt
Newspaper clipping

The Elsberg Bill Signed
Mrs. Elizabeth Cisco is a Black woman seated in an ornate chair and wearing a formal full-length dress

Mrs. Elizabeth Cisco
Newspaper clipping

Albany Evening Journal
A white middle-aged woman teaches a classroom of boys of various ages making chairs

Elizabeth Farrell and Ungraded Classes
Schoolchildren of different ages are lined up, holding documents in their hands. Original caption reads "Well-Doers Waiting for the Principal's Commendation"

A Day’s Work in a New York Public School, excerpt
A political cartoon of Uncle Sam and immigrants swimming to the US shore.

The High Tide of Immigration
Old photograph of a school building

Public School 47
Boys of different ages work in a woodshop

New York City’s Schools and What They Cost
A typed letter

Testimony to the Uniform Type Committee
Report cover page

Delinquent Girls Tested by the Binet Scale, excerpt
Table of children withdrawn from Randall's Island

The Feeble Minded in New York, excerpts
An older bald white man with a moustache and glasses poses in his office. The caption reads "Mr. William H. Maxwell who recently completed his twenty-fifth year of service as superintendent of schools of the City of New York."

William Maxwell
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