New York State Education Department Division of Archives and History Photographs of Historic Sites and Structures

Alphabetical by county. At the end of the series are photographs of octagonal buildings and covered bridges arranged alphabetically by county, and several miscellaneous, unarranged photographs.

All of these projects primarily were efforts to document historic sites in New York. They included a Federally sponsored historic sites survey (circa 1936-1939); preliminary work on the Historical Album of New York State (1941-1942) - a cooperative project between the Works Progress Administration's New York Writers' Project and the Division of Archives and History; and a resurvey of historic sites conducted by the Division (circa 1947-1949).

This series contains film negatives and photographic prints of historic sites, buildings, bridges, statues, monuments, and a few persons of statewide or local significance. It apparently contains interfiled photographs resulting from several projects.

The negatives range in size from 3" x 4" to 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" and prints vary from 3" x 3" to 8" x 10". There are negatives and prints for some images and only negative or print for others. All images are identified by location and name, and most by date taken.

High resolution images of selected original documents in this series are available in State Archives Digital Collections.

B1848Series B1848, Card file index to photographs of historic sites and structures, indexes this series

11891Series 11891, Working files for Historical Album of New York State, contains related records.

Lists keyed to numbered pictures for Livingston, Saratoga, and Wyoming counties are available at the repository.

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.