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Displaying 193 Finding Aids
Title
- Superintendent's monthly reports to Board of Visitors
Series Number
- A3128
Summary
- This series consists of reports presented at monthly meetings of the Board of Visitors (called the Board of Managers until 1927). The reports discuss such matters as staff deaths, illnesses, resignations, and leave; filling staff vacancies; inmate escapes; special school activities; purchases; and valuation of work done in shops.
Creator
- New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School
Access Restrictions
- Partly 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).
Title
- Register of letters received
Series Number
- 13722
Summary
- For each letter received, these registers provide date of receipt; sender's name; file number assigned; addressee's name, place, and date of writing; disposition; and a one line summary of the contents. These volumes serve as the name index to a portion of the correspondence and petitions files in Series B0462.
Creator
- New York (State). Adjutant General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Education Department Bureau of School District Organization correspondence with district superintendents
Series Number
- 11121
Summary
- "County files" pertaining to the department's supervision of district superintendents contain: correspondence with district superintendents concerning school boundary alterations and centralization proposals; memoranda on votes at school district meetings, recommending school district boundary alterations or centralizations, and ordering the redistricting of superintendencies; petitions from voters requesting annexation or centralization; and statistical reports of school district types, staffing, and student population in each county.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of School District Organization
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Administrative correspondence and related records
Series Number
- A4106
Summary
- This series consists mainly of incoming correspondence to the Quartermaster General's office but also includes copies of special orders and resolutions of the Military Board, invoices, vouchers, receipts, cancelled checks, inspection reports, and samples of cloth to be used in manufacturing uniforms. Much of the series deals with the procurement, inspection, issuance, and payment of uniforms, rations and tents during the Civil War. There is also a large amount of correspondence directed to "Acting Assistant Quartermaster General" Chester A. Arthur.
Creator
- New York (State). Quartermaster General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Transcripts of Personnel Council conferences of departmental representatives
Series Number
- B0512
Summary
- This series consists of transcripts of the Personnel Council's monthly conferences with department representatives. Included are meeting summaries; conference papers; panel discussions; Department of Civil Service staff presentations and the minutes of the conference business meeting. Subjects include general personnel management; civil service programs; State personnel practices and policies; and activities of the Civil Service Commission and of the Personnel Council.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Personnel Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Commissioner's subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- 13063
Summary
- This series consists of subject and correspondence files of the commissioner. Typical records include briefing documents; reports; meeting files; speeches; interdepartmental memorandums; correspondence between members of the executive office; and correspondence with state and federal agencies, private and public groups, and individual members of the public.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation. Executive Office
Title
- Reports, cost estimates, and certificates pertaining to the Middle Division of the New York State Canal System.
Series Number
- B0708
Summary
- This series consists of a volume of reports, cost estimates, certificates, and sketch maps relating to the Middle Division of the New York State Canal System, which ran from Cayuga to Oneida County.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Education Department Associate Commissioner for Cultural Education subject files
Series Number
- B0457
Summary
- The Office of Associate Commissioner for Cultural Education administers the State Library, State Museum, State Archives, Motion Picture Division, Educational Television, and Intercultural Relations. This series consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, and clippings relating to Cultural Educations' program areas. Subjects include historic preservation; legislation; budgets; advocacy; policy; South Mall; and Adirondack Forest Preserve and statewide issues. Also included are Cabinet meeting minutes; monthly reports to the Regents, program publications and Commissioner's speeches. Job applications are restricted.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Associate Commissioner for Cultural Education
Access Restrictions
- B0457-14, Box 17: Partially restricted to protect personal privacy. Some job applications contain social security numbers.
Title
- Letters of instruction to Western Division engineers
Series Number
- B0325
Summary
- This series is comprised of letters of instruction to the Western Division Engineer's Office from the office of the State Engineer and Surveyor regarding the construction and repair of the Barge Canal. The letters contain instructions on surveying; repairs; requisitions; plans; estimates; contracts; reports; dealing with labor issues; and various other administrative aspects of constructing and maintaining the Barge Canal.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- List of incorporated charities' officers' addresses
Series Number
- A3103
Summary
- The Commissioners of Public Charities required institutions run by incorporated charities to submit information on the names of the charitable organization's president, secretary and treasurer, and the officer in charge of the institution. The address of the institution is sometimes included.
Creator
- New York (State). State Board of Charities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Register of soldiers who visited the Washington office
Series Number
- A4136
Summary
- This register contains names and needs of soldiers who visited the Washington, D.C. office of the New York Military Agency between December, 1863 and May, 1865. Information in the register includes soldier's name, rank, residence, regiment, company, location, date and reason for visit.
Creator
- New York Military Agency
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Incoming correspondence relating to common schools
Series Number
- A0184
Summary
- This series consists of fragmentary correspondence sent by local school officials to the secretary of state in his capacity as ex officio superintendent of common schools. Most correspondence is relates to requests and advertisements printed in the "District School Journal." Other items include a letter concerning an Onondaga Indian Reservation school, a report on schools in Oneida County, and an anecdotal memoir of a schoolmaster. These records were partially burned in the 1911 and may be restricted.
Creator
- New York (State). Secretary of State
Access Restrictions
- Restricteduntil properly conserved:fragile physical condition due to fire and water damage.
Title
- Register of appointments
Series Number
- A1099
Summary
- This volume contains a copy of the act establishing the position of Auditor of the Canal Department, passed April 3, 1848; appointments of clerks and other employees of the Canal Department, giving names, dates, and salaries; and general orders adjusting salaries of Department employees. The label on the cover reads "Appointments and Regulations," but no regulations are included.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Boundary line agreements and photographs
Series Number
- B0244
Summary
- This series consists of memoranda of agreements, drafts of legislative bills, tracings, and photographs of New York State and county boundary lines. The agreements provide exact location for boundary lines, the date of agreement and, in some cases, seals of offices involved with the agreement. The proposed legislative bills related to authorizing an appropriation for the surveying, mapping and monumenting of the New York-Pennsylvania boundary line. The photographs are images of boundary monuments.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Board of Port Wardens records
Series Number
- A0387
Summary
- This series contains a variety of manuscript volumes used by the Board of Port Wardens of the port of New York to record daily business. Volumes document management of the board's finances, apprenticeships of Hell Gate pilots, and surveys of vessels and cargoes.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State. Board of Port Wardens
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Cover letter and memo concerning "colonization,"
Series Number
- A0423
Summary
- This series consists of an extensive letter from the Superintendent, Rome State Custodial Asylum, to Miss Ruth F. Leonard, Vassar College.The letter concerns the Superintendent's position on "colonization" of patients in an early outpatient alternative, specifically the examples practiced at Rome and the self-sufficient quality and profit-making character of the trial programs as a viable alternative to the institutionalization of patients practiced elsewhere.
Creator
- Rome State Custodial Asylum (N.Y.). Superintendent's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Political papers of Frank Wayland Higgins
Series Number
- B1945
Summary
- This series documents Frank Wayland Higgins' political career as New York State Senator, Governor, and Lieutenant Governor. The bulk of the series consists of newspaper clippings of articles and political cartoons, invitations to social occasions, correspondence, and telegrams housed in scrapbooks. A significant portion of the records document Higgins' campaigns for office, as well as the struggle for power in the Republican Party.
Creator
- Higgins, Frank Wayland, 1856-1907
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Correspondence and annual reports of adult education classes
Series Number
- B0497
Summary
- This series consists mostly of annual reports submitted to the Education Department by school districts on adult education classes. Information includes city, village, or school district name; county; director of adult education; school name, address, and principal; course title; teacher's name and license type; length and number of sessions held; and total number of students registered and attending. After 1945, there are summary reports of numbers of classes, teachers, periods, and students attending each type of class.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Adult Education
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Bank liquidation case files
Series Number
- 13858
Summary
- This series documents the activities of the Banking Department in the interim between assuming possession of institutions and their closings. Records were created by liquidating agents appointed by the banking superintendent to investigate outstanding mortgages and loans.
Creator
- New York (State). Banking Department
Access Restrictions
- Access to records in this series is partially restricted in accordance with multiple state and federal laws. State Archives staff will review requests for specific documents and disclose in accordance with New York State Freedom of Information Law.
Title
- New York State Department of Public Works Office of the Superintendent Western Division engineers' ledgers regarding division personnel
Series Number
- B0737
Summary
- This series consists of 2 accounting ledgers used by the Western Division Engineer's Office to record payroll transactions. The heading of each ledger page lists employee name, job title, salary or hourly wage, and any special terms relating to payments. Most payroll entries are credited to personal service or management and operations. The majority of employees are listed as civil engineers or engineering aids, but additional titles included equipment operator, mechanical helper, laborer, and stenographer.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Public Works. Office of the Superintendent
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.