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The Durham Youth Home Records consist mostly of administrative records for both the Juvenile Court and the Durham Youth Home from 1933-1968. Three main types of records are included: monthly reports, money reports, and age-of-delinquent reports. The monthly reports provide information on the types of crimes that youth in Durham were being charged with and include breakdowns by sex and race. The money reports are budget reports for the Youth Home, and the age-of-deliquent reports contain more statistics on the children being charged with crimes. The collection also includes several maps that show where the youths being charged with crimes lived. Since the data the map depicts is split by race, it can give researchers a good idea of the settlement patterns in Durham in the mid-1900s. No personal identifying information for any of the youths is present in the collection.