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Displaying 5566 Finding Aids
Title
- Airport Commission files
Series Number
- B2500
Summary
- This series includes meeting minutes, resolutions, plans, and studies of the Republic Airport Commission. This commission, which consists of Department of Transportation officials and representatives from the local community, sets policy for the airport and studies the relationship between airport operations and the surrounding community.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Transportation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Banking Department card index to inactive institution files
Series Number
- 17428
Summary
- This series consists of an alphabetical card index to Series 17427, Inactive institution files of the New York State Banking Department. The index includes name of institution and number assigned by the Banking Department; address or location; name changes; and references (if applicable) to mergers, closures, and license surrenders.
Creator
- New York (State). Banking Department. Documents Unit
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Senator Caesar Trunzo archived websites
Series Number
- B2266
Summary
- This series consists of archival copies of the official website of Senator Caesar Trunzo.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Senator (1973-2008 : Caesar Trunzo)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Slides and photographs of the Empire State Games
Series Number
- 22493
Summary
- Formerly a program of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the Empire State Games are conducted as a series of annual Olympic-style competitions for amateur athletes from all over New York State. This series consists of processed photographs and slides of events during the Empire State Games.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Plans of the new State Capitol
Series Number
- A1874
Summary
- This series contains architectural plans for the construction of the present State Capitol. Included are original plans and photographic reproductions that illustrate both interior and exterior views of the Capitol. Arranged roughly by building section.
Creator
- New York (State). New Capitol Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Education Department Commissioner's Office Administrative Assistant's subject files
Series Number
- B0471
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, reports, press releases, pamphlets, and news clippings compiled by Administrative Assistant R. Pratt Krull. Topics documented include racial imbalance in schools; pending appeals to the commissioner; education-related legislation; and a test case for decentralization in New York City public schools. Files relating to the test case, Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District, discuss race relations, a 1968 teachers strike, and conditions and events in the district.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Commissioner's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register of bonds for the New York and Erie Railroad Company
Series Number
- A1860
Summary
- This series consists of a register of bonds issued to raise funds for the construction of the New York and Erie Railroad Company. The register contains copies of the original bonds - each of which is registered, countersigned, and compared with the original bond and is signed by Archibald Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State. Entries, numbered from one to 3,000, are for $1,000 and are dated August 17, 1847.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Commissioner's files on Joint Legislative Committee to Revise and Simplify the Education Law hearing
Series Number
- B0465
Summary
- This series consists of materials from a public meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee to Revise and Simplify the Education. Included are official statements from school districts, New York State Assembly members, board of education members, and concerned individuals, mostly opposing centralization of school districts.Also included is Stony Brook Union Free School District 's report on district centralization, a map of Long Island school districts, Suffolk County resident questionnaire on reorganization plans, and bulletins on state aid for reorganizaton.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Office of the Commissioner
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Aerial photograph maps of quadrangles in various New York counties
Series Number
- B2272
Summary
- These aerial photographs depict United States Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangles in Onondaga, Cayuga, Oswego, Broome, Cortland, and Tioga Counties. They include highways, railroads, and municipalities.
Creator
- Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Planning Division
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Joint legislative resolution regarding the 332nd Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force
Series Number
- B0303
Summary
- This document is an original typed resolution issued by both houses of the New York State Legislature upon the return of the 332nd Infantry Regiment (part of the 83rd Division) of the American Expeditionary Force from the Italian front in World War I. The resolution was issued to recognize the "conspicuous services and devotion to duty" for which the 332nd Regiment was decorated by the Italian government upon its return to New York in 1919.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Registers of returns of writs of execution
Series Number
- J1153
Summary
- These registers contain entries of returns of writs of execution by sheriffs in counties served by the Albany office of the Supreme Court. The returns are mostly writs of fieri facias (fi. fa.) and capias ad satisfaciendum (ca. sa.), but there are a few for writs of habere facere possessionem and scire facias.
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
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital order and commitment books
Series Number
- B1753
Summary
- This series consists of certificates of lunacy, medical certificates, forms, petitions, and case histories documenting the process used to commit people to the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. Early commitment orders include name, case number, address or residence, occupation, and by whom brought. The physician's certificates include a brief statement of symptoms. Indigent patients are noted. Name indexes appear at the front of each volume. There is no information for 1890-1892. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.)
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- 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
- Registers of state, county, and city appointed and elected officials
Series Number
- A1848
Summary
- This series consists of bound volumes listing appointments of state elected officials, including judges but excluding members of the Legislature.The appointment abstracts provide the name of the office, appointee's name, date of appointment and occasionally term of office.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- Microfilm is not available for duplication or inter-library loan.
Title
- Dispensation orders
Series Number
- A3087
Summary
- This series contains War Council dispensation orders granted to industries to provide dispensations from peacetime restrictions on the hiring of minors to industries doing war-related work. Periodic orders were issued to grant a group of companies dispensation for up to six months. Later orders also granted dispensation renewals.
Creator
- New York State War Council. War Emergency Dispensation Committee
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Autopsy record book
Series Number
- B1747
Summary
- This series consists of autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. Reports include date and time of death; name of doctor performing autopsy; attending physicians; patient's age at death; form and duration of insanity; cause of death; external appearance of cadaver (nourished or malnourished); weight, in ounces, of organs; and indication whether the cranium, spinal cord, thorax, abdomen, and pelvic organs had been examined. Reports conclude with a detailed postmortem.
Creator
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records and the Personal Privacy Protection Law. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- State administered Civil Service examinations
Series Number
- 14109
Summary
- This series consists of examinations for state and county positions. Included with each exam are examination announcements and instruction sheets. Announcements contain posting, closing, and exam dates; position title, duties, and salary; minimum qualifications to take the exam; examination subject and relative weight of components; general information; and civil service rules. Instruction sheets contain examination rules, number of questions, time allowed, and instructions for filling out forms and the answer sheet. The examination contains the actual questions.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Examination and Staffing Services Division
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Office of Real Property Services Executive Director's office subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- 15217
Summary
- The series consists of subject and correspondence files of the Executive Director of the Division of Equalization and Assessment/Office of Real Property Services and ex officio secretary of the State Board of Equalization and Assessment. The records document the work of the division to carry out the policies and programs of the State Board, an independent agency subdivision within the Executive Department charged with establishing equalization rates for counties, cities, towns, and villages, as well as other special equalization rates.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Real Property Services. Executive Director's office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Education Department Deputy Commissioner's subject files
Series Number
- B0459
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, and other materials from the deputy commissioner's office under Lewis A. Wilson (1941-1950), James E. Allen (1950-1955), and Ewald B. Nyquist (1961-1970). The records contain routine administrative material, but also document educational policy formulation, development of legislation, the budget process, participation in education organizations, planning for and proceedings at Regents meetings, NYSED participation in national defense programs during World War II, public appearances, and the functioning of the departmental Cabinet.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Executive Deputy Commissioner's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Superintendent of Public Works Assistant Superintendent's Office photographs of culverts on the Western Division of the Erie Canal
Series Number
- B1021
Summary
- This is a series of photographs, circa 1900, of culverts, places where water passes below the Canal, on the Western Division of the Erie Canal.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works. Assistant Superintendent's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Municipal audit examination reports
Series Number
- 13100
Summary
- The series consists of field audit reports for counties, cities, towns and villages. The reports were generated pursuant to Article 3 of the Municipal Law, which mandated state review of municipal fiscal policies and procedures and required municipalities to follow standard procedures relating to financial transactions. Each report includes a narrative summary of the examiner's findings noting any fiscal shortcomings and/or malpractice; tabulations of cash transactions, disbursements, and indebtedness; and a list of municipal officials at time of audit.
Creator
- New York (State). Division of Municipal Affairs. Bureau of Municipal Affairs-Examinations
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.