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Displaying 5566 Finding Aids
Title
- Governor's Office of Employee Relations Legal Division grievance arbitration files (litigated)
Series Number
- 16231
Summary
- Records in this series from the Legal Division pertain to contract-related grievances that have reached the arbitration stage. Topics include work conditions and hours; non-competitive appointments; workforce deployment; job requirements; and promotions or other hiring actions. Files contain correspondence; statements of proceedings; evidence; arbitrator's notes; issues reports; accident and incident reports; and arbitrators' opinions and awards.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor's Office of Employee Relations. Legal Division
Access Restrictions
- Access to attorney-client privileged correspondence, attorney work-product, settlement drafts, and certain inter-agency correspondence is restricted pursuant to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Section 87(2)(g). State Archives staff will review requests for specific records and disclose in accordance with FOIL.
Title
- Declarations and motions before 1830
Series Number
- J0010
Summary
- This fragmentary series contains declarations, writs of inquiry and inquisitions, motion papers of all kinds, cognovits, stipulations, exceptions, demurrers, and other miscellaneous documents.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Cemetery Board meeting files
Series Number
- B2761
Summary
- This series consists of meeting files generated by the state's Cemetery Board. Files contain lists of attendees, minutes, correspondence with cemetery administrators, schedules of prices and estimates for expenses for cemetery services, requests for permission to adjust prices for services, and orders approving changes to price schedules. Also present are vandalism reports, requests for funds, and orders allocating funds to repair vandalism damage.
Creator
- New York (State). State Cemetery Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Records of payments received
Series Number
- B2007
Summary
- This series consists of photocopies of payments by check or money order received for services (largely duplication orders) provided to researchers by New York State Archives Research Services staff. Also included are statements confirming receipt of the payments by State Archives administrative staff responsible for depositing the payments.
Access Restrictions
- Restricted to protect personal privacy.
Title
- Attorney General's Office register of railroad cases
Series Number
- B0610
Summary
- This series consists of a register documenting legal papers served and filed, and other proceedings in actions brought by the people of the State of New York against railroad corporations. All complaints were sent to sheriffs for service on February 8-9, 1853. The volume also contains entries for cases handled by attorney Anthony Ten Eyck of Albany between 1845 and 1853.
Creator
- New York (State). Attorney General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Railroad grade crossing elimination payment registers
Series Number
- B0604
Summary
- This series contains registers of summary data on grade crossing elimination projects from start to finish. Data includes Public Service Commission case number; names of participating municipalities and railroads; bonds issued (with interest rates); location of grade crossing; dates of Public Service Commission orders authorizing work; names of contractors' work covered by contracts, and amounts to be paid; complete record of payments, giving dates, amounts, and purposes; and distribution of costs (railroad, state, and county shares).
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Audit and Control
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Maps of grants of lands under water
Series Number
- 19116
Summary
- The series consists of maps depicting grants of land under water made by the state from 1777 through the 1900s. Each map depicts the names of individuals to whom grants were made.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of General Services. Division of Land Utilization
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Cognovits
Series Number
- J0004
Summary
- The relicta et cognovit is the defendant's confession that he is liable for the debt or other damages alleged in the plaintiff's declaration, plus any costs and charges arising out of the action. The document gives the names of the parties and their attorneys and the amount of damages claimed. It is signed by the plaintiff's attorney.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Albany Convention Center Authority archived website
Series Number
- B2775
Summary
- This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible website of the Albany Convention Center Authority.
Creator
- Albany Convention Center Authority (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Tuberculosis case report cards
Series Number
- B0162
Summary
- State law required all physicians to notify the State Department of Health about specific cases of infectious, contagious, or communicable disease. This series consists of personal (name, sex, color/race, birth date or age, marital status, occupation, address) and medical data about victims of tuberculosis reported by physicians throughout the state. Medical data includes lab results; diagnosis (extent, activity, or change in diagnosis); reporting doctor's name and address; hospital name; and admitting and discharge dates. Records are restricted pursuant to state and federal laws.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Health. Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
Access Restrictions
- Restricted by New York Public Health Law sect. 18 and New York Code of Rules and Regulations part 10, sect. 50-4; by New York Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6) sect. 87.2(b); by New York Personal Privacy Protection Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6-A) sect. 96; by New York Public Health Law sect. 2221; and by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acct (HIPAA), 42 U.S. Code sect. 1320d-6, and -7.
Title
- Statements of court-administered trust funds (New York and Kings counties) transferred to National Bank of Commerce in New York
Series Number
- A1397
Summary
- This series consists of statements of court-administered trust funds transferred to the National Bank of Commerce in New York. Most of these funds were apparently set up for the benefit of widows and orphans in New York City and Brooklyn. Some date back to before the Civil War, but most were established around the turn of the twentieth century.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Monthly petroleum production statements,
Series Number
- B1532
Summary
- This series consists of U. S. Bureau of Mines' statements summarizing statistical and economic surveys of crude petroleum and refined petroleum products. The statements include narratives on daily production output and demand for crude petroleum, daily barrels of refined product, the price index for petroleum and related products, and crude oil capacity; comparative analysis of supply and demand of fuel oils; and tables on production and stocks.
Creator
- New York State Geological Survey
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's Office general specifications of purchasing committee for state institutions reporting to the Fiscal Supervisor of State Charities
Series Number
- A0937
Summary
- This series contains printed specifications and forms for purchasing foodstuffs, issued every three months.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Wheelerville Union Free School District board of education meeting minutes
Series Number
- A4589
Creator
- Wheelerville Union Free School District (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Records of the Council of Appointment
Series Number
- A1037
Summary
- These documents relate to official positions over which the Council of Appointment had the power of appointment. The documents include appointments; resignations; petitions of application or recommendation for appointments; and lists of officials.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register of insane in county poorhouses
Series Number
- A1989
Summary
- Each county poorhouse physician completed and submitted to the Board a form listing the following information for each inmate: name; county of residence; age; country of birth; occupation; year insanity commenced; if the inmate remained at the poorhouse or died or was discharged during the year; and remarks on behavior, cause of disability, prognosis, and general health.
Creator
- New York (State). State Board of Charities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Syracuse Developmental Center exhibit materials
Series Number
- B1692
Summary
- These materials depict children and staff in various therapeutic, educational, and recreational settings, classrooms, buildings, and grounds of the Syracuse State School. Also include are a history of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, a portrait of Dr. Hervey Wilbur, and records of the observance of the 125th of the opening of the Syracuse Developmental Center.
Creator
- Syracuse Developmental Center
Access Restrictions
- Records depicting students are 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 for People with Developmental Disabilities.
- Records are also restricted due to fragility, pending treatment. Use with supervision of archivist.
Title
- Catharine (N.Y.) annual budgets
Series Number
- A4629
Creator
- Catharine (N.Y. : Town)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Chaplains' registers of inmate case histories
Series Number
- A3146
Summary
- Chaplains were required to keep records of inmates' background, behavior, and progress at the institution and to supervise their parole. Gathered by Protestant and Catholic Chaplains, the registers may include inmate's name and number; date received; division assigned; occupation(s), religion(s), economic status, habits; family structure and background; educational background; employment history; legal and institutional history; offense; parole date(s); occupation and conduct while on parole; date of escapes and return to the institution. Records are restricted.
Creator
- New York (State). State Industrial School
Access Restrictions
- 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
- Annual reports and handbooks
Series Number
- A3152
Summary
- This series consists of copies of the printed annual report of the Division of Visual Instruction, which summarize the division's activities during the previous year and include descriptions of new publications. Some reports provide background of the division and use of lantern slides. Also included are copies of a departmental Handbook that outlines the functions of the division, availability of lantern slides for loan, and photo prints depicting the Division of Visual Instruction's offices.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Visual Instruction
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.