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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 Islands
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
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Table of children withdrawn from Randall's Island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
Text from a manual for the Binet-Simon scale

The Binet-Simon Scale, excerpt
Illustrations for a Binet Simon IQ test

Army Beta Test and Results
A young black girl smiles and poses, arms outstretched and standing on ballet pointe shoes. She wears a white dress, crown, and cape tied at her wrists.

The Brownies’ Book, January 1920, excerpts
Pie chart showing that 63% of of polio surivors surveyed became disabled before age 16, and 37% became disabled after 16 years of age

Survey of Cripples in New York City, excerpt
Book cover featuring a bust sculpture (head and neck) of a young black boy

The Brownies’ Book, February 1920, cover
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