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Title

Record of canal contracts

Series Number

B0209

Summary

This series consists of summary information on contracts authorized by the Canal Board for improvements on the state's canal system. Information includes contract name and serial number; authorizing chapter; description and location of work; approval date; bid process information; date contract was awarded and executed; name and residence of the contractor; construction period allowed by the contract; delays; date completed; name and address of the inspector; appropriation; engineer's estimates; contractor's bid; actual cost of construction and remarks.

Creator

• New York (State). Canal Board

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Education Department Bureau of School District Organization reference file of school district boundary maps

Series Number

14219

Summary

Included are: Photostats of maps bound as a school district atlas, compiled by the Joint Legislative Committee on the State Education System in 1943 with some post-1943 consolidations or centralizations; political boundary maps showing municipal boundaries with a translucent overlay showing school district boundaries; and a miscellaneous maps of school districts.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of School District Organization

Access Restrictions

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

Title

State Directors' correspondence and reports files

Series Number

A4188

Summary

This series contains administrative files of the State Director of the Federal Writers' Project mostly from District Number 2 (Albany, Rensselaer, Greene, and Ulster Counties). Records include correspondence about administrative issues; WPA personnel record forms which include name, address family members, educational and work history; and daily time reports for the Troy office.

Creator

• Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York

Access Restrictions

Personnel Record Forms are restricted to protect personal privacy for55 years after creation of form.

Title

District Supervisors' correspondence and administrative files

Series Number

A4176

Summary

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, reports, travel orders, supply requisitions, time sheets ("employee depositions") and occasional employment applications ("personnel questionnaires"). These records were used by the district supervisors of the Historical Records Survey and were periodically transferred to the office of the state director. Most correspondence and memorandums in this series are between district supervisors and the state director, field workers, and administrative officials of the Works Progress Administration.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Researchers must agree in writing not to divulge personally identifiable information from personnel related forms found in files (e.g. "Personnel Questionnaire"), before access is granted.

Title

Annual reports of municipal water districts and departments

Series Number

B1330

Creator

• New York (State). Public Service Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Register of honorary members of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents

Series Number

A2063

Summary

This volume lists 34 persons elected by the Society's Board of Managers as honorary members of the Society. For each honorary member entries may include: name; address; occupation; date nominated and elected; date died or resigned; and remarks.

Creator

• New York House of Refuge

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Roster of officers of New York State Volunteer regiments

Series Number

A4152

Summary

This bound volume contains the names of officers of the First through Thirteenth Regiments of New York State Volunteers during the Civil War. The information is duplicated in Frederick Phisterer, <emph render="italic">New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865</emph> and in State Archives series 13775, Civil War muster roll abstracts of New York State Volunteers, United States Sharpshooters, and United States Colored Troops.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Assistant Director's correspondence files

Series Number

B0584

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, drafts of scientific publications, manuals/bulletins on state parks, research notes, field work expenses and results, and publication clippings. The records document the public and private activities of the assistant directors.

Creator

• New York State Museum

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Telegrams received

Series Number

A4147

Summary

This volume contains incoming telegrams received by the Surgeon General's Office between April 26, 1861 and November 26, 1864. The telegrams deal with administrative matters such as the examination of regiments, disbursement of medical supplies, appointments of regimental surgeons, and the disposition of wounded soldiers received at New York City and Albany.

Creator

• New York (State). Surgeon General's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York House of Refuge committee reports to the Board of Managers

Series Number

A2053

Summary

This series consists of reports of standing and special committees appointed by the New York House of Refuge Board of Managers. Series includes reports for indenturing, insurance, theater, school, classification, special, and building committees. The volumes contain reports of three special committees established to influence pending legislation: 1868 - to support an augmented appropriation to replace burned workshops; 1882 - to oppose diversifying theater license revenues to an actors' fund; and 1883 - to oppose prohibition of contract labor and visitation rights for Catholic priests.

Creator

• House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Central New York (Syracuse) regional produce market reports

Series Number

A0718

Summary

Reports by the senior marketing representative record market prices for both shipped-in and homegrown produce. The reports describe the volume of trading done on a particular day, the opening and closing prices for each item, any sharp fluctuations in prices, and carlot receipts. For each report, the produce items are first divided into homegrown or shipped-in categories, then further subdivided into either fruit or vegetables, then arranged alphabetically.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Agriculture and Markets. Division of Marketing

Access Restrictions

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

Title

State Engineer and Surveyor index to Eastern Division employees ledger

Series Number

B0354

Summary

This series consists of alphabetically arranged index of employees working on the Eastern Division of the Erie Canal. The index contains the names of employees as well as page numbers.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Correspondence and subject files

Series Number

14189

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, circulars, publications, and sample blank forms concerning the development and promulgation of general policy for and administration of the Education Department's Urban Education Program. These records contain information on the following subjects: Commissioner's regulations; application procedures; urban education guidelines (policy); legislation; legal opinions of counsel regarding legislation; funding history; budget and work plans; staff activities; projects completed; legislative reports; and background and policy revisions.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Assistant Commissioner for Compensatory Education. Division of Urban Education

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Superintendent of Repairs' reports of locktenders employed by contractors for repairs

Series Number

A1176

Summary

These monthly reports provide name and section of canal, number or name of lock, and names of locktenders.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York House of Refuge minutes of the Acting Committee

Series Number

A2052

Summary

This series contains minutes of the House of Refuge's Acting Committee, later Executive Committee. Minutes include discussions of maintenance, finances, education, employment, and other matters and also contain resolutions; lists of bills presented for approval; and reports of committees of the Managers. Routine inmate census data includes number of males, females, whites, and blacks; total number of inmates in each division; number discharged; and starting at mid-19th century, number indentured and in hospital.

Creator

• New York House of Refuge

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Middle Division letter books

Series Number

B0702

Summary

This series is comprised of 13 volumes of letter books that contain carbon copies of correspondence written by resident and division engineers engaged in work on the Middle Division of the Erie Canal. The correspondence in these letter books is administrative in nature, addressing various aspects of work on the Middle Division, which included the counties of Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Administrative correspondence files

Series Number

A4100

Summary

This series consists mainly of incoming correspondence directed or forwarded to the Inspector General's Office. The files are routine in nature and deal with such topics as the construction and repair of state armories, inspection of troops at depots and recruiting stations and review of various claims. These records are only a small part of this office's correspondence files; there are many gaps.

Creator

• New York (State). Inspector General's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Book of general and special orders

Series Number

B0110

Summary

This series consists of copies of general and special orders from Agent and Warden of Clinton State Prison concerning the duties of keepers and guards, rules for prisoners, and other administrative procedures.

Creator

• Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Public Service Commission correspondence files pertaining to steam railroad and electric railway companies' annual reports

Series Number

B0298

Summary

This series relates contains clarifications, amendments, or explanations relating to annual reports previously filed with the Public Service Commission. The series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, memorandums, depositions submitted by company officials, and duplicate and amended financial schedules from annual reports. Researchers should examine these correspondence files in conjunction with the annual reports to ensure that data contained in specific reports was not later amended or altered.

Creator

• New York (State). Public Service Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Department of Public Instruction Office of the Superintendent outgoing correspondence

Series Number

A2000

Summary

The volumes contain copies of letters sent by the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and clerks in the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to local officials and private individuals. Among the subjects addressed are: school taxes assessments; school officials disputes; apportionment of public funds for schools; filing of appeals with the Superintendent's Office; creation and consolidation of school districts; teachers certification and pay; Indian students and schools; student discipline; conditions of schools, and enforcement of compulsory education laws.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Public Instruction. Office of the Superintendent

Access Restrictions

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