Meriden Boys’ Home & School
SGC nonprofit educational research archive
Edition: September 12, 2026

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This collection centers on the Connecticut School for Boys / State Reform School. “Boys’ home” can also refer to the Curtis Home; its photographs and history are explicitly labeled separately. Individual children’s death certificates and a complete named burial register have not been obtained.

Includes selected original images, full acquired OCR, source catalog, credits and a SQLite FTS5 database. Complete repository PDFs and modern external articles are linked, not included. Coverage and missing records are described in each collection’s scope and individual item notes.

RESEARCH DATABASE
items stores the catalog; search_fts indexes source text. Example: SELECT id,title FROM search_fts WHERE search_fts MATCH 'history';

CONTACT
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