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Title

Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities Rand School seized files

Series Number

L0028

Summary

The Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities (known as the "Lusk Committee" for its chairman Clayton R. Lusk) seized these records in raids on the Rand School of Social Science in New York City. The committee tried unsuccessfully to use the records to revoke the charter of the American Socialist Society, the Rand School's parent organization. Records include correspondence, bulletins, and lists relating to home study courses, lectures, publications, and school activities. The records also include material relating to political and organizational activities of the Socialist Party.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Local child care organization and assistance files

Series Number

A4279

Summary

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, financial records, ledger books, and reports which detail the state and local level operations of the War Council's Committee on Child Care, Development and Protection in organizing and supervising the state's child care facilities. Individual child care centers, their activities, and operations are documented in this series. In addition, a great deal of demographic information is found on the children and families who participated in child care programs.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Judicial Records Disposition and Archives Development Project files

Series Number

B2913

Summary

This series contains files created and collected during the Judicial Records Disposition and Archives Development Project. Files include project guidelines and forms, interim reports and final report, meeting minutes, correspondence and memoranda, reports of court visits, records survey notes, summary statewide records inventory data, draft schedules, comments on schedule items, draft and final appraisal reports, and research materials. The latter include several pre-project unpublished reports on records management in the court system. About two-thirds of the records are draft records disposition schedules.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Court Administration

Access Restrictions

Access to certain records in this series may be restricted pursuant to New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Section 87.2(g). Staff will review requests for specific records and disclose in accordance with FOIL.

Title

Ledger of taxes on corporations

Series Number

A1301

Summary

This ledger records taxes assessed on and paid by corporations. Information includes incorporated companies; amount of real and personal property owned; tax or commutation due; amount of stock owned by residents of the county; and amount of tax collected. Individual stockholders' names are not given, but the various incorporated companies (banks, insurance companies, turnpike and steamboat companies, etc.) are listed.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Comptroller's accounts with county treasurers for taxes due the state

Series Number

A1315

Summary

This series consists of accounts for taxes due the state from county treasurers. Information includes taxes due the state, with notes of total valuations of real and personal estate and balances; cash payments by county treasurers; fees of collectors and county treasurers; arrears for non-resident taxes by towns; and taxes on corporations brought forward from another book. Also included is an index to counties.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Sample blank financial and statistical reports required to be filed by local school officials

Series Number

A3264

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Article 10 estate tax files

Series Number

19802

Summary

The Estates Tax Processing Unit deals with the payment of taxes against the transfer of property from the estates of decedents. Records include last wills and testaments; real property appraisals and photographs; correspondence; trust deeds; estate inventories; and other documents pertaining to the transfer of estates and payment of taxes on estates. Because most decedents established life trusts to dispose of their estates, the files often include wealthy citizens such as Astor, Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Taxation and Finance. Estates Tax Processing Unit

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Minutes of meetings of boards of visitors and monthly reports of institutions

Series Number

B0645

Summary

This series contains the department's copies of boards of visitors meetings minutes and monthly reports of superintendents and department heads at the following state institutions: Thomas Indian School; Woman's Relief Corps Home; State Agricultural and Industrial School; State Training School for Girls at Hudson; and State Training Schools for Boys at Highland, New Hampton, Otisville, and Warwick.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Social Welfare. Division of State Institutions

Access Restrictions

Partially 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

Banking Department archived websites

Series Number

B2052

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible website of the New York State Banking Department, which was abolished on October 3, 2011, when its functions and authority were transferred to the newly created New York State Department of Financial Services.

Creator

• New York (State). Banking Department

Access Restrictions

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

Title

War Council Division of Civilian Protection Emergency Medical Service survey and planning files

Series Number

A4286

Summary

This series contains correspondence, reports, and memoranda relating to the administration and coordination of the War Council's Division of Civilian Protection Emergency Medical Service in its preparedness to respond to medical emergencies in the event of wartime bombings.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Division of Civilian Protection. Emergency Medical Service

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Common order book

Series Number

J0045

Summary

This series consists of copies of common orders (orders to which a party was entitled without having to show special cause) issued by the Chancellor. Court rules required that all orders issued by the Chancellor be entered by the Register in separate books. This series is continued by Series J0046, New York State Court of Chancery Register's Minutes of Common Orders, 1830-1847.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Motion Picture Division administrative files

Series Number

B2734

Summary

This series contains administrative files created and/or collected by the Motion Picture Division during the course of daily operations. Records include auditor's reports; budgets; fiscal records; job descriptions and other civil service related information; lists of the number of films that were reviewed; and payroll records.

Creator

• New York (State). Motion Picture Division

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Board of Equalization and Assessment Hurricane Agnes flood maps

Series Number

14473

Summary

The State Board of Equalization and Assessment used these maps indicating flooded areas as reference sources in their inspection of, and determination of tax abatement or state assistance for, flood-damaged areas resulting from the hurricane. In addition to noting flooded areas, the maps show land contours, waterways, and a few man-made features such as schools, hospitals, roads, and railroads. Annotations on the maps indicate specific flooding problems such as "water over railroad bridge."

Creator

• Genealogical Society of Utah

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Clinton Prison medical and psychiatric diagnostic files

Series Number

B0123

Summary

This series consists of inmate medical and psychiatric reports used to determine the physical and mental condition of inmates serving indeterminate sentences. Clinical staff also conducted scientific studies and psychiatric evaluations in an effort to determine causes of criminal behavior and make recommendations for treatment, training, and employment of inmates. Records may include inmate admission blotter; hospital history; social history summary report; admission classification; progress notes; classification cards; pre-parole report; and records from other prisons in which inmate was incarcerated. Records are restricted.

Creator

• Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)

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

Special funds expenditure ledger

Series Number

B1229

Summary

This ledger documents expenses in Auburn Prison's special accounting funds. These funds include Plumbing, Library, Road, Ordinary Repairs, and Electrical Execution. The ledger lists date of entry, name of individual or company paid, description of goods or services received, and amount paid. Also included is a monthly statement of total expenditures and a cash balance.

Creator

• Auburn Prison

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Elmira Reformatory daily log of population counts

Series Number

B0137

Summary

This series consists of a daily count of the population of incarcerated individuals at the Elmira Reformatory taken Monday through Friday at various intervals. Locations at which population counts were conducted include work areas (construction, laundry, kitchen, etc.); educational classes; guard house; hospital; library; cellblocks; dining rooms; cage floor; center gate and dormitories. Also counted were the number of incarcerated individuals received or paroled. The total population of incarcerated individuals for each count is included along with the name of staff member taking the count.

Creator

• Elmira Reformatory

Access Restrictions

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

Title

History of Westchester County defense and war councils

Series Number

A4292

Summary

The volumes which comprise this series are condensed from the 31-volume complete version kept in the Office of the Westchester County Clerk, County Court House, in White Plains, New York. These volumes were presented to the New York State War Council in 1946. The condensed version and the larger complete history were compiled to document the efforts of this local War Council. Included are: activities and sub-organizations of the council; bulletins; special orders; general orders; regulations; and circulars.

Creator

• New York State War Council

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Register's docket of decrees requiring money payments

Series Number

J0051

Summary

This series consists of a list of final decrees issued by the Chancellor that were docketed, at the request of any party involved in a case, when a decree required a money payment by the losing party. Information recorded includes name of party against whom decree was rendered; his county and place of residence; his title, trade, or profession; amount of damages, debt, or cost decreed; date and time of docketing; name of all parties involved in the case; and when (if) decree was discharged, reversed, or vacated.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund archived websites

Series Number

B2046

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible website of the Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund.

Creator

• Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Original and preliminary cross sections for 1876 survey of the Western Division of the Erie Canal

Series Number

B0651

Summary

This series consists of hand-drawn cross sectional diagrams produced to determine conditions and needed improvements to the Erie Canal. The diagrams show conditions of the canal bed and riparian decay in portions of the western division of the canal, beginning at Lock 52 at the Wayne County line and ending at the Black Rock Guard Lock. Depicted are the water level, condition of the canal bottom, and the proposed improvement configuration.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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