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Record Group: Department of Institutions and Agencies
Subgroup: New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman
Series: Miscellaneous Administrative Records and Publications, 1914-1993
Accession #: 1994.032
Series #:  SINEP008
Guide Date: 12/1994 (EC)
Volume: 0.5 c.f. [1 box, 1 map folder]


Institutional History | Contents

Content Note

This series consists of miscellaneous administrative records and publications. Included are lists of the Village's board members and professional staff (physicians, clinical directors, dentists, etc.), published by-laws, teaching materials, booklets of poetry and essays printed at the Village, and a 1925 "Institutional Questionnaire" (item 8) which provides information on funding, staffing and building use. In addition, there is a 1993 history of the Village prepared by Walter C. Baker. NOTE: The map and organizational chart (items 10 and 11) are stored flat in a map case.



Contents

Box 25
1.
Compiled lists of board members, professional staff, etc., 1898-1961 [removed from loose-leaf binder]:
 
a.
Board of Managers, 1898-1961 [includes Neuro-Psychiatric Institute Board Members].
 
b.
Superintendents, Stewards, Senior Physicians, Clinical Directors [includes biographies of Superintendent Dan Smith Renner, Superintendent Albert William Pigott, and Clinical Director Diomede Guertin].
 
c.
Department of Institutions and Agencies, 1949 [includes State Board of Control and all agencies within the department].
 
d.
Assistant Physicians, 1902-1950.
 
e.
Dentists, 1910-1939.
 
f.
Interns, 1909-1924.
2.
Indiana Village for Epileptics, New Castle, Indiana [photographic album], no date.
3.
Statutes, by-laws, etc.:
 
a.
Statute Law, By-laws, Rules and Regulations Governing Officers, Employees and Patients of The New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman, 1914.
 
b.
By-Laws, Rules and Regulations Governing Officers, Employees and Patients of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman, 1937.
4.
Manuscript & Inscription Letters For Schools & Classes & for the Use of Craftsmen, by Edward Johnston, 1916 [State Village library book].
5.
Outline Course of Training for Epileptics, by Louis Weeks, Principal Teacher, New Jersey State Village for Epileptics, 1918.
6.
Thoughts of Mother: A selection of Poems collected and used at The New Jersey State Village at Skillman, 1921.
7.
Selected Selections [poetry, prose, humor]:
 
a.
Vol. I, 1921
 
b.
Vol. II, 1925
8.
"The New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman, Institutional Questionnaire for the Collection of Information and Data in a General Survey of the New Jersey State Government," 25 June 1925 [includes information on funding, staffing, buildings, etc.].
9.
Notes from teachers' meeting, 16 September 1932.
10.
"Map of New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman, New Jersey," 22 March 1937, revised 13 September 1944 [blueprint, 20"x30.5"].
11.
"New Jersey State Village Table of Organization, 1951-1952," 10 December 1951.
12.
A History of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics, by Walter C. Baker, Van Harlingen Historical Society, Winter 1933.

Created April 2004
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