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Title

Patient cartoons

Series Number

B2452

Summary

This series consists of 114 cartoons, in pencil, drawn by a patient at Middletown State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960s, depicting life at the hospital from the patient's perspective. The patient was assigned to a continued care, community-centered program at Middletown. The cartoons include reactions to major changes, such as women being permitted in men's wards. Also included are clinical notes pertaining to the patient.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene

Access Restrictions

Use photocopies are disclosable, as the patient's name has been redacted. However, clinical notes and the original cartoons found in the series are 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

Location index to colonial patents

Series Number

A4686

Summary

This series partially indexes Series 12943, Letters Patent and Series A0480, Indexes and Translations of Dutch Patents.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is not available for duplication or inter-library loan.

Title

Authorities subject files

Series Number

B2334

Summary

This series consists of the subject files of the Counsel to the Governor's office which relate to New York State authorities. The Counsel's responsibilities included clearing all contracts that required the Governor's signature, making recommendations on proposed legislation, and advising on policy and program matters. Records include correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, plans, press releases, copies of legislative bills and acts, and newspaper clippings relating to the administrative, legal, jurisdictional and legislative aspects of New York State authorities.

Creator

• New York (State). Counsel to the Governor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Department of Health photographs of laboratory research activities

Series Number

B1629

Summary

This series consists of photographs of health research operations. Some depict the Center for Laboratories and Research and an exhibit of herbals. Others show construction and evacuation processes during the work of the interagency task force handling the Love Canal disaster in Niagara Falls.

Creator

• New York (State). Executive Department

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Subject and correspondence files

Series Number

B0537

Summary

This series consists of selected records transferred from the Executive Office because of their research value. Files include the Executive Director's, Assistant Executive Director's and Commissioner's subject and correspondence files; reports and special hearings files; files relating to State commissions, special conferences, and conventions; and records of interdepartmental and internal Department councils and committees. Many records are administrative; others discuss Division and Department activities and program analysis.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Civil Service

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Mortgagor index to state mortgages and U.S. Deposit Fund mortgages

Series Number

A4692

Summary

This series indexes series A0477, Registers of Mortgages to the State, by name of mortgagor.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is not available for duplication or inter-library loan.

Title

World Trade Center site maps

Series Number

B2320

Summary

This series documents the recovery of the World Trade Center site in the months immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks. Information includes restricted zones, debris calculations, thermal hot spots, damaged buildings and command posts, and other aerial photographs showing progress over time. Also included are aerial photographs of the Staten Island debris processing site at Fresh Kills. The maps assisted federal, state, and local government emergency personnel working at the World Trade Center site.

Creator

• New York (State). Office for Technology

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Newark State School annual reports

Series Number

B2446

Summary

This series consists of annual reports describing the functions, activities, and events of the Newark State School.

Creator

• Newark State School (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Writs of habeas corpus

Series Number

J1029

Summary

This series consists of writs of habeas corpus and returns thereto filed apparently in Supreme Court Clerk's office in Albany. Almost all the writs concern defendants imprisoned under civil process. A few writs concern defendants in criminal cases.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Engineers' drafts and vouchers for general fund

Series Number

A0392

Summary

This volume contains expenditures paid from the general fund, generally for canal improvements and repairs. Included are the purpose of the expenditures, and typically the date, type of disbursement ("to cash") and amount. There is an alphabetical subject index at the front of the volume.

Creator

• New York (State). Canal Commissioners

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Department of Public Works subject files of the Deputy Superintendent

Series Number

B0251

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, maps, plans, blueprints, photographs, studies, reports, meeting minutes, proposed legislation, contracts, opinions, resolutions, claims, and complaints. Subjects include bridges, highways, parkways, the Barge Canal, state buildings, parks, legislation, federal aid, the department's budget, land appropriations, rights of way, damage claims, flood control, water drainage, beach erosion, and water supply.

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Forest lands aerial photographs

Series Number

18113

Summary

26,000 aerial photographs of state-owned forest lands including. of the Adirondack, Catskill , Allegany , and Palisades parks, and Southern Tier counties. Used to determine boundaries of forest lands and forest types for the appraisal of taxable forest lands, the. ordinary film depicts foliage uniformly in gray. Black and white infrared photos depict foliage in varying shades to identify softwood, hardwood, softwood, and mixed timber stands, and locate trees that have damage from acid precipitation or insect or fungal infestation

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Real Property Services. State-owned Lands Unit

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Remittiturs from the Court for the Corrections of Errors

Series Number

J1001

Summary

This series consists of remittiturs from the Court for the Correction of Errors to the Supreme Court of Judicature, for execution of judgement or other proceedings. Records include the writ of error returnable to the Court of Errors; a copy of the judgement roll; occasionally a bill of exceptions, or assignment of errors and joinder in error; and the record of proceedings in the Court of Errors.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Ledgers of accounts with purchasers of Holland Land Company lots

Series Number

B0279

Summary

This series consists of ledgers of accounts with purchasers of lots or portions thereof in townships of the Holland Land Purchase. Accounts include name of purchaser, sale date, location, lot and section number, debits and credits by date, principal, and interest. Also included are maps of lots in the township.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Subject and correspondence files

Series Number

B1601

Summary

These records of the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance deal with unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, homework, and work relief programs. The bulk are statistical and narrative reports, memoranda, meeting minutes, correspondence and subject files pertaining to industrial homework; women and child employment; federal minimum wage; emergency wartime agricultural labor policies; information relative to numbers, age, and salaries of workers; copies of orders regulating specific industries; and complaints on administrative determinations of unemployment insurance.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Labor. Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Registers of cancelled tax-sales

Series Number

B1615

Summary

This series provides summary information on cancellation of tax sales held to sell lands for unpaid taxes. While tax-sales for as early as 1800 are referred to, and a few cancellations are included for as late as 1946, the cancellations generally date from 1818-circa 1930. Usual causes for cancellation include errors in tax assessment, mistakes in payment records before the tax-sale, and redemption payments made after the tax-sale was completed.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Records pertaining to various monuments and dedication ceremonies

Series Number

A4123

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, reports, copies of financial statements, and other records concerning the celebration of New York Day at the Chicago World's Fair; the dedication of the Trenton, New Jersey Battle Monument at Van Cortlandt Park; and the dedication of the New York State Monument at Gettysburg. The bulk of the series deals with the latter event and consists mainly of materials prepared by A.J. Zabriskie, the Engineer and Secretary of the New York Monuments Commission.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Cover letter and memo concerning "colonization,&quot

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

Health Department offfice and laboratory buildings plans and drawings

Series Number

B1826

Summary

This series consists of sets of design and "as-built" drawings of the former Health Department office and laboratory buildings, located on New Scotland Avenue in Albany. The drawings date from approximately 1918 to 1970 and show the design of and modifications to those buildings. Included are construction drawings, floor plans, engineering plans, and other aspects of the buildings. The buildings depicted no longer exist.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of General Services. Design and Construction

Access Restrictions

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

Title

First District case files

Series Number

19594

Summary

The series consists of microfilm copies of the case files of the First District Public Service Commission (1907-1921), with jurisdiction in New York City, and case files. Also included is so-called "supplemental case file material" (those materials not filmed because of size or condition, including maps, drawings and/or exhibits; or materials filmed but for which the film was found to be of poor quality). Case files typically include petitions, briefs, orders, correspondence, exhibits and testimony.

Creator

• New York (State). Public Service Commission

Access Restrictions

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