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Displaying 5566 Finding Aids
Title
- Register of certifications of official examiners of title
Series Number
- J0220
Summary
- This series consists of a register used by the State Board of Law Examiners to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to record certifications of official examiners of title. Only eleven certifications were recorded. Included are stubs listing the certificate number, licensee name; residence; office address; date when examined by Board of Law Examiners; place where examination took place; date certificate issued; judicial department that issued certificate; and in some cases, date when certificate was mailed.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Negatives and photographs of roads and road construction
Series Number
- A4030
Summary
- These photographs show damaged roads in eastern upstate New York; machinery used to construct or resurface roads; work in progress; roads before and after repair; various road surfaces like macadam or concrete; road signs; and automobile accidents. These were probably created by the Albany division office to plan highway projects for the division, to examine work done on the highways, and to inspect all state and county highways and report on them to the State Highway Commission when requested.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Highways
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Bayview Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0008
Summary
- Bayview Correctional Facility (1974-2012), located in New York City, was a medium security correctional facility for male and female felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated women.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Contract plans relating to improvement of the Erie and Oswego canals
Series Number
- B0395
Summary
- Consisting mostly of maps, drawings, specifications, and related material, these plans show proposed work for which contracts were let during the "Nine Million Dollar Improvement" of the Erie and Oswego canals. In addition to particulars of a job site (elevations, structures, proposed improvements), the maps sometimes show boundaries of state-owned property, type of business (store, barber, mill, etc.), and name of businesses or property owners.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Inspectors of State Prisons record book
Series Number
- B1935
Summary
- This series consists of notes from State Prison Inspectors about the Female Prison, Sing Sing, Clinton, and Auburn Prisons. Most entries deal with Sing Sing Prison. Topics include convict labor for hire, safety precaution measures, and the status of the staff including suspension and appointment of guards and keepers. Also included are newspaper clippings about convict labor for hire and a brief general summary of the Board of Parole meeting minutes. The volume is also available on microfilm.
Creator
- New York (State). Board of Prisons
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Schenectady City School District records
Series Number
- A4756
Summary
- Records found in this series include annual audits and reports; annual budgets; annual directories of officers and teachers; annual reports of the board of education; board meeting minutes; deeds and property sales; student census records; and tax rolls.
Creator
- Schenectady City School District (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Minutes of commission meetings
Series Number
- 18941
Summary
- This series consists of meeting minutes of the New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Commission. The minutes document actions, decisions, and policies made and developed by the commissioners at public meetings and in private sessions. Information includes staff reports, committee project status reports, discussion and review of proposed action plans and proposed regulations, and private citizens' presentations. The series also contains monthly project status reports, project summaries, agendas, and press releases.
Creator
- New York (State). Low Level Radioactive Waste Siting Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Assemblyman Maurice D. Hinchey legislative files
Series Number
- L0261
Summary
- This series contains records of Maurice D. Hinchey as representative for the 101st New York State Assembly district. Records pertain primarily to environmental issues in Hinchey's own district, but since this focus draws in expansive geographic features such as the Hudson Valley, rivers, mountain ranges, and watershed areas, coverage also includes neighboring downstate counties and New York City.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Assemblyman (1975-1992 : Maurice D. Hinchey)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Syracuse Collegiate Center files of the Emergency Adult Education Project
Series Number
- A3039
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, and statistical reports relating to the operations of the Syracuse Collegiate Center which provide relief for unemployed teachers and college courses for unemployed high school graduates. Correspondence, constituting the bulk of the series, mostly pertains to routine administrative matters, such as personal actions and travel arrangements. Statistical reports provide numbers of students, teachers, courses, classes, class size and other information about the schools run by the Syracuse Collegiate Centers.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Vocational and Extension Education
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- 1967 Constitutional Convention records of George Cornell
Series Number
- L0249
Summary
- George W. Cornell, a delegate to the Convention, served as vice-chairman of the Committee on Finance and Taxation and as a member of the Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. This series consists mostly of records dealing with the Committee on Finance and Taxation, including revisions of text in the constitutional articles and propositions for amendments in Cornell's handwriting. Also included are few examples of constituent responses.
Creator
- New York (State). Constitutional Convention, 1967
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Wage investigation planning and research files
Series Number
- A3011
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes of staff meetings, staff reports, questionnaires and responses, research notes and rough statistical tables, and draft copies of forms relating to the Wage Investigation. Many of the files document wages and working conditions in the different industries under investigation.
Creator
- New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Maps of land purchased from the Holland Land Company
Series Number
- A4018
Summary
- The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land during the late 1700s. The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. This series consists of maps including purchaser's name; acreage and boundaries of each purchase and correspondence. One volume also contains an 1804 map of Holland Land Company land in New York State; another contains miscellaneous correspondence concerning land contracts.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Franklin Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0020
Summary
- Franklin Correctional Facility, located in Franklin County, N.Y., is a medium security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Financial and legal records filed with the Canal Department
Series Number
- A1160
Summary
- These records relating to canals include power of attorney filed with the Canal Auditor or the controller for many different purposes. Most furnished evidence of assignment of contracts for work on canals by the original contracted their party; assignments of state canal stock; transfers of claims against the state; and chattel mortgages on canal boats.S
Creator
- New York (State). Canal Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
New York State Department of Correctional Services Mid-State Correctional Facility Inmate Case Files
Title
- Mid-State Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0034
Summary
- Mid-State Correctional Facility, located in Oneida County, N.Y., is a medium security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
- Mid-State Correctional Facility
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Management/Confidential designation case files
Series Number
- 17496
Summary
- The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) Office of Public Employment Practices and Representation "reviews petitions from public employee organizations [i.e. unions] and employers concerning the creation of new negotiating units and recognition of employee bargaining agents, approves the transfer of members between existing units, and designates management/confidential positions. This series of case files with "E" numbers documents management/confidential cases. Case files typically contain petitions, responses, notices, affidavits, briefs, stipulations, exhibits, correspondence, and the ruling by the unit director.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Office of Public Employment Practices and Representation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Canal Corporation Barge Canal photographs and film
Series Number
- B1909
Summary
- The bulk of this series consists of photographs and negatives taken to document the construction and operations of the Barge Canal. Many of the photographs document the Utica Region of the canal from Amsterdam to Oneida Lake, the Black River Canal, and the Northern and Southern Reservoir Systems. Photos typically depict canal structures including locks, bridges, and dams; ice and flood conditions; terminals; equipment; shops; damage and repairs; construction progress; and other sites and activities.
Creator
- New York State Canal Corporation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code administrative and working files
Series Number
- 13828
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence; studies; reports; newspaper clippings; drafts of bills; minutes and memorandums generated and received by the Temporary State Commission to Revise the Penal Law and Criminal Code. Subjects include abortion; adultery; arson; assault; birth control; bribery; burglary; capital punishment; disorderly conduct; entrapment; extortion; extradition; firearms control; gambling; homicide; insanity; kidnapping; larceny; malicious mischief; obscenity; narcotics; parole; post-conviction remedies; public intoxication; prostitution; probation; prisons; restitution; search and seizure; sentencing; and youthful offenders.
Creator
- New York (State). Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Comptroller's reports on petitions to the State Legislature
Series Number
- A1821
Summary
- These reports summarize petition arguments and provide State Comptroller's opinions regarding payments claimed or due. Series also contains original petitions, supporting affidavits, and legislation for the assessment and collection of taxes and for the payment of claims. Topics of note include land grants, patents, and claims; relief for widows of soldiers killed in the Revolution; widows' dower rights to confiscated estates of deceased husbands; settlement of debts owed by confiscated estates; and requests for return of or compensation for confiscated estates.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Access Restrictions
- Access to original records is restricted due to burn damage sustained in the 1911 New York State Capitol building fire.
Title
- Senator William J. Larkin, Jr. archived websites
Series Number
- B2233
Summary
- This series consists of archival copies of the official website of Senator William J. Larkin, Jr.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Senator (1991-2018 : William J. Larkin, Jr.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.