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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

Male Blind Ward on 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 Islands

Cisco on Trial in Queens

People ex rel. Cisco v. School Board of Queens

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

Albany Evening Journal

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

Elizabeth Farrell and Ungraded Classes

Public School 47

Boys of different ages work in a woodshop

New York City’s Schools and What They Cost

Testimony to the Uniform Type Committee

“Delinquent Girls Tested by the Binet Scale”

Table of children withdrawn from Randall's Island

“The Feeble Minded in New York”

Text from a manual for the Binet-Simon scale

The Binet-Simon Scale

Army Beta Test and Results

Book cover featuring a young black girl wearing a white dress, cape, and crown. The cape is tied at her wrists, which reach up, and she stands on her tiptoes, head tilted and smiling.

The Brownies’ Book, January 1920, excerpts

Pie chart showing if people became disabled before or after 16 years of age

Survey of Cripples in New York City

Book cover featuring a bust sculpture (head and neck) of a young black boy

The Brownies’ Book, February 1920, cover

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