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Displaying 5566 Finding Aids
Title
- Champlain records
Series Number
- A3347
Summary
- Microfilmed records include justice criminal dockets; general reports; annual reports and miscellaneous reports on public works; payrolls; town budget; audited accounts; oaths of office; fiscal records on tax complaints or relief; and school district information.
Creator
- Champlain (N.Y. : Town)
Access Restrictions
- Criminal case records, payroll information restricted; State Archives staff will review requests for records and disclose in accordance with New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
Title
- Field notes of state lots near Albany Basin
Series Number
- A4428
Summary
- This series contains a "description of a map and field notes" of a survey of lots owned by the state "in the vicinity of the Little Basin and Lock No. 1" in the city of Albany. Location of the survey map is unknown. Records include a description of lots 1 through 12 and statement signed by the surveyor general attesting that the job was done by Deputy Surveyor Alexander Campbell. The location of these records is unknown.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York House of Refuge building committee minutes
Series Number
- A2059
Summary
- The New York House of Refuge building committee was charged with constructing, equipping and maintaining the Randalls Island facility. Meeting minutes provide information such as estimates for construction; abstracts of bids; bills for expenses; awarding of contracts; names of supply and construction contractors; approval of bills; and progress of construction, based on reports from the architect.
Creator
- House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register of decedent estates paying transfer taxes
Series Number
- B0955
Summary
- This series consists of a register of decedent estates paying transfer taxes. Information includes decedent's name; decedent's date of death; name of executor or administrator and his past office address; value of the estate; tax rate (an unexplained letter code); and date of estate appraiser's report.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Matron's ledger
Series Number
- B1493
Summary
- This series consists of a ledger of expenses for female patients kept by the matron of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica (N.Y.). Patient accounts are listed either under the county responsible for the expenses, or as private accounts. Articles issued for each patient are listed by date with price and presumably the patient's individual account number.
Creator
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
Access Restrictions
- 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
- List of shareholders in the Hudson River Railroad Company
Series Number
- A0896
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office lists persons who subscribed to stock in the Hudson River Railroad Company. The list includes the town; name of subscriber; and number of shares. An appendix listing names, number of shares, and total amount subscribed, is also included. At the end of the volume are signatures of officers and directors of the company.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Assembly Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis Arab boycott investigation files
Series Number
- L0137
Summary
- The series contains records produced or collected in the Assembly Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis' investigation of the Arab boycott of businesses dealing with the State of Israel. These files contain transcripts of conversations between investigators and businessmen regarding their involvement; press clippings on the boycott and U.S. foreign trade; correspondence and memorandums; surveys of major banks regarding compliance with the boycott; reports from the Port Authority on the boycott's effects; and the report, "The Arab Boycott: Alive and Flourishing in New York."
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Annual reports of steam railroad and electric railway companies
Series Number
- 10093
Summary
- This series includes annual reports submitted to the Public Service Commission by steam railroad, electric railway, express car, sleeping car, freight, and freight-line companies. The reports provide detailed information concerning the organization of each company and its financial status. Information includes exact name; type of company; location; date of organization; laws under which organized; status; dates of consolidation or merger; members of board of directors; chairman of the board; principal general officers; and stock information.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Service Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York House of Refuge chaplain's reports to the indenturing committee
Series Number
- A2071
Summary
- The Reformatory's Protestant chaplains functioned as "home visitation agents" or parole agents. They evaluated an inmate's former home, the master's home of an indentured inmate, or the home of a paroled inmate. The brief narrative reports may include master's name, residence, occupation and treatment of inmate; inmate's school habits and church attendance; residence, occupation, and economic status of inmate's family; conditions of inmate's house; whether inmate's family will take back inmate; and recommendations on returning inmate to family on parole.
Creator
- House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Files of the U.S. Paymaster at Albany
Series Number
- A0100
Summary
- This unprocessed, disarranged series consists of various types of records including muster rolls, payrolls, vouchers, and correspondence.
Creator
- United States. Army. Paymaster (Albany, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Special Commission on Attica investigation and interview files
Series Number
- 15855
Summary
- This series consists of investigation and interview files of the Special Commission on Attica (chaired by Robert B. McKay and known as the "McKay Commission"). The commission investigated the Attica Correctional Facility riot of 1971. Resulting records include personal interview sheets or transcripts; depositions and preliminary statements; copies of facility logs and other administrative records; lists of dead and wounded; draft commission reports; photographs; documents regarding negotiations with rioters; and documents confiscated from inmates.
Creator
- New York (State). Special Commission on Attica
Access Restrictions
- "All investigative and interview materials are indefinitely restricted pursuant to Executive Law sect. 63.8 and Civil Rights Law sect. 73.8. Other records may be exempt from disclosure under the NY Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) sect. 87.2(b) (unwarranted invasion of personal privacy)."
- Boxes 83-90 are open to researchers; they contain material determined to be disclosable under the Freedom of Information Law.
Title
- Director's administrative correspondence
Series Number
- A4366
Summary
- This series contains correspondence between the director of the New York State War Council Office of Physical Fitness, Hiram A. Jones, and schools and public and private organizations involved with the State Physical Fitness Program. The correspondence documents Jones's efforts to direct and administer the program's daily operations. Issues covered include: pamphlet and film distribution; requests for physical fitness certificates and suggestions for the program; local committee activities; and personnel and administrative issues.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Office of Physical Fitness
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Local historians' documentation of World War II Servicemen
Series Number
- A4372
Summary
- This series contains lists of draftee from Albany induction stations and a history of North Salem during World War II. The history includes brief service records for each man and details home front activities such as salvage collection, war bond drives, blackouts, civil defense, rationing, and Red Cross projects. Albany induction lists contain the name; address; draft board and serial numbers, and induction date. Most inductees were Albany residents; others were from surrounding cities, downstate New York and western Massachusetts.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Robert Abrams personal papers and ephemera
Series Number
- B2818
Summary
- This series consists of personal and professional papers and ephemera associated with the life and career of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. The series documents his public service in the New York State Assembly, as Bronx Borough President, and as State Attorney General. Records include correspondence; speeches; photographs; videotapes; audiocassettes; scrapbooks; news clippings; and Department of Law annual reports, press releases, opinions, and accomplishments.
Creator
- Abrams, Robert, 1938-
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
New York State University Construction Fund Design Management Unit Campus Master Plan Update Reports
Title
- State University Construction Fund campus master plan update reports
Series Number
- 16390
Summary
- This series contains individual SUNY campus plans that describe both present and proposed campus environments in addition to recommended campus development plans. These plans are found in bound report form and contain narratives, charts, graphs, maps, and drawings that frame the master plans for the various SUNY campuses.
Creator
- New York State University Construction Fund
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Governor messages to the Legislature
Series Number
- A0114
Summary
- This series is composed of messages to the legislature from Governors Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller. There is also one message from Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson.The series consists of annual messages, which provide the listing of programs the Governor would like to institute that year; special messages intend to garner support for legislative bills recommended by the governor; and veto and approval messages, which respond to bills passed by the legislature and rationales for gubernatorial approval or disapproval.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Energy Office Counsel's Office state energy master plan files
Series Number
- 15841
Summary
- This series documents the State Energy Office's efforts to compile and adopt a "master plan for energy-related decisions throughout the state." Included are testimony by environmental groups, utility companies, and state agencies; motions, briefs and exhibits; background reports; draft and final opinions and orders; and correspondence related the 1979 and 1983 master plans. Also included are State Energy Planning Board agendas; resolutions; notes; minutes and correspondence; hearing transcripts; environmental impact statements; discovery requests and responses and reply briefs.
Creator
- New York (State). State Energy Office. Counsel's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Department of Taxation and Finance reports of sales of state lands
Series Number
- B0969
Summary
- This series consists of summary reports of sales of state lands by the State Engineer and Surveyor and its successors, including the Department of Public Works and the Division of the Land Office, as well as a few by the Conservation Department. Reports from state agencies making land sales were useful in assessing taxes on new property owners. Each report includes the name of purchaser, address, a detailed description of the property, and price paid.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Administrative correspondence and background history on the Oak Orchard Feeder
Series Number
- A4414
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence requesting information about the Oak Orchard Feeder at Medina. Most letters are to offices of the Western Division engineer, who had responsibility for its administration and maintenance. Subjects include location of contracts, deeds, and other records; power and ownership rights along Oak Orchard Creek; easements; possible improvements including hydraulic development of streams entering into or issuing from the canal. Also included is a history of the "Tonawanda and Oak Orchard Creek Feeder and Tonawanda Swamp".
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- School admission and discharge registers
Series Number
- A2065
Summary
- The registers of admissions and discharges, track the arrival, departure, and academic level of students in the intuition's schools.. Each entry in the admission register includes date, class (1st - 6th grade), boys name, house number, age, ability in reading, writing, and arithmetic, where he attended school, and 'remarks' (usually how long attended or out of school). Discharge registers entries includes date, name, house number, level of competency in arithmetic and class (1st - 6th grade).
Creator
- New York House of Refuge
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.