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Title

Correspondence with local war councils and volunteer agencies

Series Number

A3084

Summary

This series contains Office of Civilian Mobilization (OCM) correspondence relating to the organization and coordination of community services by local war councils and volunteer agencies. The OCM also encouraged local agencies supported recreation activities to the prevent juvenile delinquency and maintaining morale; recruited women to work in defense industries and agriculture; promoted child care for those who needed the service; and encouraged pre-induction activities to help young men make the transition from civilian to soldier.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Mobilization

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

Title

Senator Dean G. Skelos archived websites

Series Number

B2259

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the official website of Senator Dean G. Skelos.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Senator (1985-2015 : Dean G. Skelos)

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

Title

Registers of agents

Series Number

J1150

Summary

These four small books list the names of attorneys who have appointed agents, the names of their agents, and dates of appointment. The books overlap in date and contents and contain many strikeouts. Agents were authorized to be appointed by rules of the court adopted in January term, 1799, and August term, 1809.

Creator

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

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

Title

Superintendent of Public Works General Inspector's Office letter books

Series Number

B0328

Summary

This series consists mostly of administrative correspondence, generated by the General Inspector's Office, regarding the Erie and Barge Canals. Subjects include payment vouchers, supplies, and instructions to canal superintendents. Many copies are faded. Some are illegible.

Creator

• New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works. General Inspector's Office

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

Title

Research files for a department history

Series Number

A0764

Summary

This series contains final and working drafts, research notes, and correspondence relating to the compilation of "The History of the State's Care of the Mentally Ill." There are also abstracts of laws pertaining to the state's concern for the mentally ill and abstracts of historical articles from Psychiatric Quarterly.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene

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

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Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities newspaper clippings files

Series Number

L0035

Summary

This series consists of newspaper articles and editorials on topics such as labor, socialism, radicalism, immigration, and unrest in the United States. The clippings were compiled by the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities, known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk, and document several thousand events and activities involving individuals and organizations suspected of radical activity in New York State, the United States, and the world.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities

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

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Aurora Town Clerk record and minute books

Series Number

A4502

Creator

• Aurora (N.Y. : Town). Town Clerk

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

Title

Statements of expenditures filed by local investigators

Series Number

A4264

Summary

This series consists of account statements submitted by local investigators to the State Fire Marshal for services rendered. The statements supply the date; an itemized statement of actual expenses; the purpose of the expenditure and the amount to be paid to individual inspectors. Expenditures were for services, disbursements, travel, and other expenses incurred by an inspector in the performance of official duties.

Creator

• New York (State). Fire Marshal

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

Title

Temporary Commission on the Courts records

Series Number

A0002

Summary

The duties of the Temporary Commission on the Courts were to make a comprehensive study of the state's judicial system and propose appropriate legislative and constitutional remedies for problems discovered. Records in this series document issues including, but not limited to selection of judges; proposed judiciary article of state constitution; operational costs of the court system; proposed rules and amendment of Civil Practice Act; legal issues involving children; calendar congestion and delay; court system structure; the Judicial Conference; and comparative negligence.

Creator

• New York (State). Temporary Commission on the Courts

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

Title

Comptroller's accounts with individuals

Series Number

A1308

Summary

This series consists of books containing accounts with individuals or firms. Each account gives name of individual or firm; residence; and entries for amounts carried over from account books kept by "Bloodgood," Breese," and Fairlie," whose identity and positions are unknown. The second volume also contains entries for interest, which may indicate that these are accounts for state debentures.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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

Title

General correspondence

Series Number

A4270

Summary

These correspondence files contain material on conferences, annual and monthly reports, bibliographies, catalogs, kits, finances, and correspondence with city and county Councils of Citizen Unity and Citizen Morale Committees. These entities were part of the Section for Citizen Unity, which was formed on January 1, 1942 by the State War Council to inform and educate the general public on war issues and to garner support for the war effort.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Section for Citizen Unity

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Photographs and printed documents concerning Joseph Henry Memorial

Series Number

A3279

Summary

This series consists of reproductions gathered during the development and fundraising for a memorial in honor of scientist and inventor Joseph Henry . Included are an address given by Bancroft Gherardi, photographs of Henry's inventions use by Gherardi, Henry portraits; letters about him; documentation about the proposed Joseph Henry statue, and photos and material about the unveiling of the statue.

Creator

• New York State Museum

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

Title

New Baltimore records

Series Number

A4516

Summary

Microfilmed records include town clerk's record and minute books; highway account books; tax assessment rolls; town audits; poll books/registers of voters; town budgets; planning board minutes and planning review case files; mobile home permits; building permits; justice criminal case dockets; registers of chattel mortgages and conditional sales; and other records.

Creator

• New Baltimore (N.Y. : Town)

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

Title

Joint Legislative Committee on Discrimination in Employment of the Middle-Aged subject and survey files

Series Number

L0021

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, testimony, interviews, reports, charts, and draft legislation on a variety of topics including age discrimination, workers' compensation, health and life insurance, and employee accidents. The information was gathered from industries, labor unions, business organizations, and State and Federal government for an investigation of job discrimination for those over forty. Also included are survey forms from businesses on hiring and firing practices and a summary of a survey of labor unions on age discrimination.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Discrimination in Employment of the Middle-Aged

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

Title

Secretary's log of transactions

Series Number

A0770

Summary

This series contains summaries of board meetings; reports created by the secretary or agents to the board which summarize investigations and actions taken regarding public health nuisances and communicable diseases; and notations of petitions received and to what committee they were referred.

Creator

• New York (State). Board of Health

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

Title

Miscellaneous papers concerning legislative matters

Series Number

L0009

Summary

This series consists of mainly correspondence, but also reports, minutes of land office commissioners, depositions, memoranda, lists of expenditures and appropriations, petitions, and claims. These may have been the working papers of Senator Thomas Hillhouse. Also included are financial matters such as claims requiring settlement or appropriations made by the legislature.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Senate

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

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Documents relating to charges against Louis F. Haffen, Borough President of the Bronx

Series Number

A1446

Summary

This fragmentary series consists of documents submitted to Governor Charles Evans Hughes in the matter of charges brought against Louis F. Haffen, Borough President of the Bronx, by the Commissioners of Accounts of New York City, by order of Mayor George B. McClellan. Twenty-two charges were brought against Haffen, alleging "incompetence, maladministration and misconduct in office and serious waste of public funds."

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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

Title

Newsletters

Series Number

B1585

Summary

This series consists of newsletters produced by patients and staff of Utica and Marcy State Hospitals (later consolidated as Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center) to provide current information on the people and programs at these institutions. Patient publications feature quotations, poems, and short pieces on current events and issues; staff publications focus on personnel issues, staff training, departmental and hospital policies, and visits of public officials.

Creator

• Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center

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

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Register of abstracts of audited accounts for governor's military expenses

Series Number

A1320

Summary

This series is an abstract of Governor Tompkins expenditures for ordnance, military pay, and individual claims relating to the War of 1812. Information includes voucher number, date, person to whom payment was made, amount allowed, amount suspended, and amount rejected. Handwritten notes by the person reviewing the vouchers are included.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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

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Register of correspondence sent

Series Number

A4258

Summary

This series consists of a register of correspondence sent by the State Fire Marshall. Information includes date sent, recipient, locality, and class of mail.

Creator

• New York (State). Fire Marshal

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