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Title

Commissioner's files on Joint Legislative Committee to Revise and Simplify the Education Law hearing

Series Number

B0465

Summary

This series consists of materials from a public meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee to Revise and Simplify the Education. Included are official statements from school districts, New York State Assembly members, board of education members, and concerned individuals, mostly opposing centralization of school districts.Also included is Stony Brook Union Free School District 's report on district centralization, a map of Long Island school districts, Suffolk County resident questionnaire on reorganization plans, and bulletins on state aid for reorganizaton.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Office of the Commissioner

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

Title

Subject files

Series Number

A2050

Summary

This series consists mainly of routine administrative records relating to the supervisory functions of the Associate and Acting Assistant Commissioner for Vocational and Extension Education. Records include incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, meeting minutes, photographs, and copies of publications. Subjects include vocational rehabilitation; trade and correspondence schools; industrial, agricultural, distributive, and adult education; public service training; home economics; library extension; and the New York State Merchant Marine Academy.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Associate Commissioner and Acting Assistant Commissioner for Vocational and Extension Education

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

Title

Geologic maps and drawings

Series Number

B0948

Summary

This series consists of working, proof, and published copies of geologic maps and drawings prepared by the Geological Survey staff in the State Museum to accompany scientific articles or monographs. Most maps depict surface geological features in color on standard printed topographic base maps and range from single U.S. Geological Survey quadrangles to the entire state. They usually include title, date, bulletin number, plate number, and preparer.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum

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

Title

State Paleontologist's research and publication files

Series Number

B1511

Summary

This series consists primarily of research material and articles written by the New York State Paleontologist for publications, such as "The Conservationist," and journals of professional scholarship. Topics include taxonomy, classification, and description of fauna and flora fossils; descriptions of strata; geology of specific localities throughout New York State; tectonics and geological nomenclature. Also included are articles written by other authors; correspondence, hand drawn maps; field notes; photographs; drawings; diagrams; galleys; and reprints of published articles.

Creator

• New York State Geological Survey

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Pre-publication texts and illustrations for State Museum publications

Series Number

B0578

Summary

This series contains draft materials including notes, texts, galleys, illustrations, tables, and maps for Museum publications. Includes approximately 100 photoprints and drawings apparently used to illustrate publications and reports in geology, paleontology, and other areas of natural history. Of note are records and correspondence relating to James Hall's publications. Also included are annual reports of the state geologist, State Museum director, and State Cabinet of Natural History; and volumes of the Paleontology of New York.

Creator

• New York State Museum of Natural History

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

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State Museum Director's, State Geologist's, and State Paleontologist's correspondence, drafts of publications, and photographs

Series Number

B0579

Summary

This series consists of correspondence; drafts publications; notes; photographs of fossils and geological features and formations; maps; pamphlets; and drawings of geological sections. The records were accumulated by James Hall, State Geologist, State Paleontologist, Curator of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and Director of the State Museum of Natural History. Much of the material concerns the preparation and publication of the Paleontology of New York.

Creator

• New York State Museum of Natural History

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

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Original bill of sale and record of the action of the Council of the Onondaga Indians whereby the University of the State of New York became Wampum Keeper of the Six Nations

Series Number

A0492

Summary

This series consists of the original bill of sale and record of the action of the Council of the Onondaga Nation which sold and transferred the Onondaga Nation's interest in the wampum belts and office of wampum-keeper to the State University of New York.

Creator

• New York State Museum

Title

Course syllabi

Series Number

B0551

Summary

The syllabi in this series were prepared by the Bureau if Business and Distributed Education and its administrative predecessors for courses in business education, commercial subjects, and distributive education. They served as guidelines for the teaching of typewriting, office practice, business law, commercial arithmetic, shorthand, business English, retailing, and sales techniques.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Business and Distributive Education

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

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Files relating to the Commissioner's Museum Inquiry Committee and proposed State Museum building

Series Number

A3164

Summary

These files include records from departmental inquiries into the operation of the State Museum. Various reports, correspondence, photographs and background notes provide detailed information on the museum's functions and needs. Also included are planning documents, including plot and floor plans for a proposed new museum building in Albany (1930-1934). Photographs show birds, plants, mosses, and insects studied by State Museum staff; downtown Albany, State Education Building, State Capitol, and Alfred E. Smith State Office Building.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum

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

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State Museum and Science Service news release and public relations files

Series Number

B0586

Summary

This series consists of drafts and final copies of news releases, public relations publications, and occasional correspondence relating to public educational activities of the State Museum. News releases constitute the bulk of the series.

Creator

• New York State Museum and Science Service

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

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Institution for the Blind ledger accounts

Series Number

B0431

Summary

This series consists of ledger accounts for the Institute of the Blind, created while the institution's facilities in Batavia were under construction. Entries are listed under categories such as construction, steam heating apparatus, and furniture, as well as by individual company account names. Each entry includes date, description, and price.

Creator

• New York State Institution for the Blind

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

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Transcriptions of Civil War records

Series Number

A0257

Summary

This series consists of transcriptions of official reports, correspondence, and orders primarily relating to the volunteer artillery, cavalry, and engineer regiments furnished by New York during the Civil War. Most of these records were transcribed from the multi-volume U.S. War Department publication, <emph render="italic">The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies</emph>. These transcriptions provide a chronological record of the activities of individual units during the Civil War as reported in the Official Records.

Creator

• New York (State). State Historian

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

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White House Conference on Child Health and Protection files

Series Number

A3038

Summary

The series consists primarily of memoranda and preliminary subcommittee reports (often including statistical summaries and charts) produced by the Committee on Special Classes which made recommendations for future programs, examined, commented on and set provisions for the education of "exceptional" children. Also included is memoranda and correspondence dealing with information requested for committee work. Also included are official proceedings of the conference and abstracts of other conference committees.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Vocational and Extension Education

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

Title

Photograph album of geologic features in Great Britain

Series Number

A3159

Summary

This series consists of photographs and printed descriptions of geologic features in Great Britain. Descriptions indicate the location, date of photograph, and explain the characteristics and origins of the feature depicted. A typed note in the album indicates that all photographs exist as lanternslides.

Creator

• New York State Museum of Natural History

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

Title

Plates, illustrations, and drawings for various State Museum publications

Series Number

B1711

Summary

This series consists primarily of illustrations used in various New York State Museum publications on geological and paleontological subjects. Items include plates from State Museum Memoir 14 "Eurypterida," photographs of the reconstruction of the Cohoes Mastodon, cross sections of geological data from Museum "Guide Book No. 1," wash drawings of the "Orthothecid Cephalopod" and other illustrations. Other items include a tribute to Professor James Hall on his 86th birthday, and a geologic map of New York.

Creator

• New York State Geological Survey

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

Title

Education Department departmental long range plan

Series Number

B0587

Summary

This series consists of a general planning statement and individual planning statements for major program or administrative areas in the Education Department including Center on Innovation; Vocational Rehabilitation; Research and Evaluation; Cultural Education; Higher and Professional Education; Science and Technology; Intercultural Relations in Education; Elementary, Secondary and Continuing Education; and Regents Examination and Scholarship Center.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department

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

Title

Inventory of local school records

Series Number

A3165

Summary

The commissioner of education requested all boards of education and school administrators to complete an inventory of their official records. School districts completed forms recording data on the extent and location of: meeting minutes of trustees or boards of education; enrollment, attendance, grade, and graduation records; district organization papers, financial reports, payrolls and any other existing records. Most responses also include the founding dates of schools, and information on record storage conditions and previous losses of records.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

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

Title

Education Department Bureau of Business and Distributive Education school surveys and studies files

Series Number

B0550

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, and printed reports concerning studies and surveys of community school systems and individual schools conducted by the Education Department or local school officials. Most surveys and studies relate entirely or in part to business education or vocational education programs and opportunities in the subject area.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Business and Distributive Education

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

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Original drawings for Volume V of the Natural History of New York: Paleontology

Series Number

A4193

Summary

This series consists of original pencil illustrations for Volume V of the Natural History of New York: Paleontology, written by James Hall and published in 1874. The drawings are of fossil specimens of radiata, crinoidea, and corals.

Creator

• New York State Museum of Natural History

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

Title

State Paleontologist's journal

Series Number

A3158

Summary

This series consists of a journal kept by the State Paleontologist, John M. Clarke. Entries are sporadic and vary in length and detail. They contain information on field trips planned or taken by Clarke, projects (including publications) under way in the paleontology office of the Museum, the settlement of James Hall's estate, and efforts to secure appropriations.

Creator

• New York State Museum of Natural History

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