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Displaying 30 Finding Aids
Title
- Works Progress Administration sponsored surveys and studies
Series Number
- A4179
Summary
- This series consists of surveys and apparently unpublished studies conducted under W.P.A. sponsorship. These studies are on many subjects, but tend to focus on real estate values, land use, and population in communities in New York. Examples include police arrest survey; social and economic survey of Indian reservations; real property survey (several cities); report on Albany transients and homeless; professional and service projects; 1850 census index for Buffalo; and Erie County street names.
Creator
- United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Correspondence and working files of the Schenectady County Office
Series Number
- A4187
Summary
- This series consists of administrative and research files maintained by the Schenectady County office of the Federal Writers' Project and used to prepare publications about Schenectady County. Included is information on the county and city of Schenectady's history; genealogical data on early families in the county; and property ownership genealogies in the Stockade Area. Most records are notes and essays by field workers and extracts of local records. Also included are reports, photographs and administrative correspondence of the Schenectady County Supervisor.
Creator
- Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Extracts from minutes of the annual sessions of the Buffalo Baptist Association
Series Number
- A4182
Summary
- This series consists of typed extracts of the Buffalo Baptist Association. The abstracts contain the following kinds of information: deaths of prominent Baptist clergy; admission of churches into the association; missionary work performed by association members; historical sketches of member churches; and resolutions passed by the association.
Creator
- Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- American Imprints Inventory cards
Series Number
- A4183
Summary
- This series contains copies of cards (WPA form 22 HR) compiled for the American Imprints Inventory, a project under the Historical Records Survey. The cards give basic cataloging data on books and pamphlets printed in the United States before 1877. They were compiled by field workers who surveyed most public and private institutional libraries in New York State. The original cards were sent to the National Editor of the American Imprints Inventory, where checklists of imprints were planned and prepared.
Creator
- Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Negatives of portraits of delegates to the 1915 Constitutional Convention
Series Number
- A4198
Summary
- Series includes three black and white photographic prints (16" x 20") of an unidentified man, presumably a representative to the 1915 Convention, which are stored separately from the negatives. The negative from which the prints were produced is not present in the series, and is presumed lost.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Director's correspondence concerning surveys
Series Number
- A4172
Summary
- This series consists of three subseries, each concerning a different survey conducted by the Historical Records Survey (HRS). They contain: Subseries 1, correspondence concerning survey of town and village records; Subseries 2, correspondence concerning survey of county records; Subseries 3, correspondence concerning American Imprints Inventory.
Creator
- Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Director's general correspondence files
Series Number
- A4173
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence concerning the administration of the Historical Records Survey in New York State. It contains: Subseries 1, correspondence with district supervisors; Subseries 2, correspondence with state and national officials; Subseries 3, correspondence concerning distribution of county inventories.
Creator
- Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Historian's speeches
Series Number
- A0061
Summary
- Copies of speeches, radio talks, commencement and commemorative addresses given by State Historian Arthur Pound. The subjects of these speeches include state and local history, the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project, wartime morale, and farm-related topics discussed on the "Farm Paper of the Air" radio program.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Inventory of Department of State Records
Series Number
- B1737
Summary
- The inventory in this series briefly describes records held by the Corporations, Licenses, Land Office, and Executive Divisions of the Department of State and includes records from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Information includes title of record; dates and quantity; brief narrative descriptions of content; whether or not indexes exist; condition of record; and location.
Creator
- Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Correspondence and reports of the church archives editor
Series Number
- A4171
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, and radio program transcripts concerning the inventory of church archives conducted by the Historical Records Survey. The correspondence and memoranda are between the editor and Historical Records Survey district supervisors, field workers, members of the clergy, and state WPA administrators.
Creator
- Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.