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Displaying 163 Finding Aids
Title
- State Paleontologist's reports
Series Number
- B0576
Summary
- This series consists of State Paleontologist's reports detailing the activities of the paleontology section of the State Museum. Reports concern staffing; equipment needs; research; loans and exchanges of specimens; and work completed on State Museum collections and exhibits. Also included are narrative reports on the histories of the State Museum and paleontology section; a five-year report on the paleontology section; and a memorandum on gifts, loans, and exchanges of specimens.
Creator
- New York State Science Service
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Syracuse State School meeting minutes and reports of board of visitors and director
Series Number
- B1654
Summary
- The series consists of monthly reports of the board of visitors and the director of the Syracuse State School, as well as minutes of general and girls' staff meetings held at the school. Laws establishing the school and appointing its board of visitors and superintendent (later director) required such reporting. Transmittal letters are typically included. Reports of the school's director, which include general statistics on patients and frame the narrative of the visitors' reports, are very often attached.
Creator
- Syracuse State School
Access Restrictions
- Records identifying individual students are restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Minutes of monthly meetings
Series Number
- B1278
Summary
- This series consists of monthly meeting minutes held by the Boards of Visitors of the Albion State Training School and its predecessor institutions: Western Correctional Facility and Western Reformatory for Women. Subjects include physical plant improvements, developments in health and educational programs, emergencies, and special events. Also included is a list of inmates received and discharged; a census of inmates and infants and a count of inmates receiving dental and medical attention. Records are restricted to protect personal privacy.
Creator
- Albion State Training School (Albion, N.Y.). Board of Visitors
Access Restrictions
- Restricted: pursuant to Personal Privacy Protection Law. Access may be permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the State Archives.
Title
- Photographs of custodial facilities in New York and other states
Series Number
- A1994
Summary
- These photographs depict public custodial facilities in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. They include: exterior building views; interior building views; facility grounds; institutional residents; and institutional staff. The photographs appear to have been gathered for a report on treatment of the mentally ill in other states, which was prepared by the New York State Commissioner in Lunacy.
Creator
- New York (State). State Board of Charities
Access Restrictions
- Access to photographs depicting patients is restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Annual reports
Series Number
- B0624
Summary
- This series consists of annual reports of the Superintendent of Banks, consisting of text and various tables of data relative to banking organizations. Accounts of activities include banks and trust companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, licenses lenders, credit unions, sales finance companies, employee welfare funds, licenses cashers of checks, insurance premium finance agencies, merger policies, and bank examinations.
Creator
- New York (State). Banking Department
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York House of Refuge annual reports and miscellaneous publications
Series Number
- A2090
Summary
- The Annual Reports to the Legislature also included reports on rules and regulations, acts of incorporation, by-laws, statutes and decisions; Building Committee's final report; Bylaws of Board of Managers; and proceedings of first and second conventions of Managers of Houses of Refuge and Schools of Reform. Pamphlets address controversies related to Little Hell's Gate and granting access to the reformatory to Catholic clergy.
Creator
- New York House of Refuge
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Public Service Commission annual reports
Series Number
- B0299
Summary
- This series consists of annual reports issued by the Public Service Commission containing detailed information concerning transportation companies and public utilities. Annual reports form this time period contain extensive detailed information concerning transportation companies and public utilities. Records document topics including rapid transit; amendments to the Public Service Law; transportation services and facilities; gas and electric company regulation; auditor's reports; resumes of commission proceedings; counsel opinions; commission orders; and statistics on light and power companies and railroads and street railways.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Service Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Annual reports
Series Number
- B2459
Summary
- This series consists of an annual report submitted to the governor by the State Board of Health. Subjects include sewage systems; water supplies; water pollution sources; instructions to local boards of health; investigation of food coloring; investigations of sanitary conditions at summer resorts; vital statistics recording; sanitary conditions of the State including information on outbreaks of small pox, influenza, typhoid fever, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, and acute respiratory diseases; and an extensive report by the Tuberculosis Committee.
Creator
- New York (State). Board of Health
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's reports to the legislature
Series Number
- A0979
Summary
- This series consists of reports and statements made by the Comptroller at the request of the legislature. Most reports are replies to petitions about land purchases, taxes and claims against the state. Also included are reports to the Legislature and resolutions concerning state revenues and expenditures for specific purposes; reports on monies received and/or expended; and statements of grants, funds or services.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Copies of Canal Commissioner's report to the State Assembly
Series Number
- B1838
Summary
- This series consists of Canal Commissioners' reports to the State Assembly. The reports include maps and profiles of the divisions of the Erie Canal; maps of various lakes; headwaters and tributaries and proposed plans for dams at headwaters of the Hudson and Raquette Rivers. Also included is a list of maps and an index.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Charts, graphs, and tables prepared for publication in the Commission's reports
Series Number
- A3032
Summary
- This series of charts, graphs, and tables was prepared for publication in the Factory Investigation Commission's reports. These records provide statistics and trends in wages, hours, and employment practices in industries studied by the Commission such as the mercantile, shirt, paper box, confectionery, and millinery industries.
Creator
- New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Yearly statistical summaries of the inmate population
Series Number
- B1282
Summary
- This series consists of statistical summaries of Albion's inmate population. The yearly summaries compare various crimes and sentences with categories of inmate background and characteristics such as age, marital status, children, mental and physical disabilities, race, country of birth, English fluency, length of employment, literacy, education, religious education, and previous crimes, convictions, and incarceration. Also included is a summary of the movement of the inmate population with numbers of inmates in custody, admitted, transferred, discharged, and by race.
Creator
- Albion State Training School (Albion, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Reports on action taken on Regents' Inquiry recommendations within the State Education Department
Series Number
- A2029
Summary
- The reports in this series assess the action taken within the State Education Department in response to the recommendations of the Regents' Inquiry into the Character and Cost of Public Education, conducted from 1935 to 1938. Each report presents both the recommendations of and the actions taken in response to one aspect of the Regents' Inquiry. The subjects of these reports are: secondary education; the elementary school; school district organization; economies in school costs; state aid; the teacher; colleges and universities; adult education; the State Education Department; and school health and physical education.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Research
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Physician's daily reports
Series Number
- B1541
Summary
- This series consists of daily reports of assistant physicians of the State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital) to the medical superintendent. Statistical information is given by department for capacity; census; patient activity (in bed; idle, employed, attending entertainment, etc.); patients on parole; and attendants on duty, sick or on vacation. Remarks include admissions, paroles, discharges, deaths, escapes, transfers, sickness, accidents, special treatments and operations, recreation, complaints against employees/food. Most reports are for male patients. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted to protect personal privacy.Access permitted under certain conditions upon application and approval by the State Archives.
Title
- Willard Psychiatric Center background materials for Board of Visitors' reports
Series Number
- B2505
Summary
- These records consist of materials used to generate final monthly reports of the Board of Visitors. They contain summaries of work performed by functional units at Willard (primarily statistical analysis) and raw statistical data pertaining to patients and staff. The board was responsible for reviewing incidents involving staff and/or patients to ensure that standards for quality of service were being met.
Creator
- Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- Office for People with Developmental Disabilities five year comprehensive strategic plan records
Series Number
- B2511
Summary
- This series consists of records related to the agency's Comprehensive Strategic Plan. Every five years, each New York State agency is to prepare a Comprehensive Five Year Strategic Plan consisting of the agency vision, mission and goals. Also included is information on how the agency intends to meet its yearly stated goals. The agency revisits each goal each year to revise, if necessary, and to report on progress.
Creator
- New York (State). Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office annual reports
Series Number
- B2442
Summary
- This series consists of annual reports published by the Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office and predecessor entities, the Rome State School and the Rome State Custodial Asylum. The annual reports describe the functions, activities, and events of each year.
Creator
- New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Boards of Visitors meeting minutes
Series Number
- B2324
Summary
- This series consists of Governor W. Averell Harriman's copies of meeting minutes from the various Boards of Visitors from state institutions. Also included are reports to the Boards of Visitors by the director or superintendent of the institution under the Board's care or reports of the Boards of Visitors to the Governor and the acknowledgement of their receipt.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor (1955-1958 : Harriman)
Access Restrictions
- Reports created by the Division for Youth are restricted in accordance with Executive Law, section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services). Reports created by the Department of Mental Hygiene are restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records.
- Other records may be exempt from disclosure by New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) section 87.2(a).
Title
- Ward inspection reports
Series Number
- B1589
Summary
- This series consists of nightly ward reports of patient activities, conditions, and events observed by Utica State Hospital personnel. Information usually includes census; names of patients present and absent on home visits; notes on medication given; and notes on patients' physical condition and behavior.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- Annual financial reports of villages
Series Number
- 13325
Summary
- This series consists of annual financial reports of villages created pursuant to Article 3, Section 30 of the General Municipal Law. That law requires that every municipal corporation submit a report of its financial condition annually to the state comptroller, and that such reports be submitted by the chief fiscal officer of the municipal corporation. Each report contains a statement of financial transactions of the village and is broken down according to type of funds (general, highway, water, sewer, etc.).
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Audit and Control. Bureau of Municipal Research and Statistics
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.