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Title

Index to Barge Canal minute books

Series Number

B0204

Summary

These volumes index a set of "Barge Canal Minutes" and "Barge Canal Books" relate to records that may not have survived. The indexes are arranged in alphabetical subject categories. Some have special categories for deeds, permits, agreements, appropriations, and contracts.

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Lake Champlain Bridge Commission Crown Point Bridge publicity files

Series Number

B2413

Summary

This series consists of publicity records that were created as a commemoration to the opening of the new Lake Champlain Bridge. The content of the records spans the history of the original Crown Point Bridge from its design to its demolition and gives an overview of the construction and opening of the new bridge.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Colony journal/telephone log

Series Number

B2375

Summary

These books record the use of the colony telephone by patients at one of the colonies at the Rome Developmental Center. The entries are recorded in diary or journal fashion by the ward attendee or other staff. Information includes names of patients and attendees, date and time phone calls were made, and duration of phone calls. The series also contains notes pertaining to the content of phone calls and patients' activities and behavior.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene

Access Restrictions

Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.

Title

Daily population summaries

Series Number

A1967

Summary

This series consists of daily entries listing the total number of inmates present in the morning and in the evening, and the names and case numbers of newly admitted or discharged inmates. After 1913, the religion of newly admitted or discharged inmates is also noted. Male and female inmates are counted in separate books. These records are restricted.

Creator

• New York (State). State Agricultural and 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

Higher Education Data System data collection forms

Series Number

B0562

Summary

The State Education Department serves as data collector for the Federal Higher Education General Information Survey. This series contains statistical reports and information for each public and private institution of higher education in the state. Reports contain data on degrees conferred; enrollment levels; student, faculty, and staff demographics; institutional finances; library collections; projected enrollment, degrees to be granted, staffing, and student tuition; and selected adult education activities.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Statistical Services

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Record of hourly wages of workers

Series Number

A3180

Summary

This series consists of an unbound volume recording names and hourly wages of employees hired for construction of the new State Capitol building. Employees are divided into two categories: casting derricks, and laborers. Only two wage rates are indicated.

Creator

• New York (State). New Capitol Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Civil War muster roll abstracts of New York State Volunteers, United States Sharpshooters, and United States Colored Troops

Series Number

13775

Summary

This series consists of abstracts compiled from original muster rolls of New York State units that fought in the Civil War, including the 20th and 31st U.S. Colored Troops. For individual members, the data includes: date of enlistment; age (in years); place of enlistment and for how long; date mustered in; grade; company; regiment; date left organization; reason for leaving (killed, discharged, deserted, etc.); in what grade; explanation; and remarks.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Syracuse State School meeting minutes and reports of board of visitors and director

Series Number

B1654

Summary

The series consists of monthly reports of the board of visitors and the director of the Syracuse State School, as well as minutes of general and girls' staff meetings held at the school. Laws establishing the school and appointing its board of visitors and superintendent (later director) required such reporting. Transmittal letters are typically included. Reports of the school's director, which include general statistics on patients and frame the narrative of the visitors' reports, are very often attached.

Creator

• Syracuse State School

Access Restrictions

Records identifying individual 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.

Title

Indexes to Vice-Chancery decrees filed in New York City

Series Number

JN313

Summary

These volumes index enrolled decrees and transcribed enrolled decrees of the Court of Chancery (1st Circuit) filed by the court clerk. The indexes include adversarial cases, commenced by complaint, but not non-adversarial cases commenced by petition. The three volumes index the Vice-Chancellor's enrolled decrees that were filed by the Clerk of the Court of Chancery (1st Circuit) in New York City. The volumes contain essentially the same kinds of data, but the third volume is the most complete.

Creator

• New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office

Access Restrictions

Use and reproduction of fragile documents may be restricted.

Title

Correspondence and working files of the Long Island Office

Series Number

A4189

Summary

This series contains administrative and working files of Federal Writers' Project District Number 4 (Long Island). Included are notes, drafts of editorial copy, extracts from primary sources, sketch maps, and correspondence between the district supervisor and field workers or the state director concerning publications in progress such as the New York State Guide, New York State Almanac, and a variety of local guides and planned but apparently never published local guides to Babylon and Hempstead.

Creator

• Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Clerk's register of guardians, committees, and receivers

Series Number

J1054

Summary

This series is a listing of information on cases in which a guardian, committee, or receiver was appointed by the Vice Chancellor in the Third Circuit.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Regents charters and amendments

Series Number

17261

Summary

These records were created by the State Board of Regents for the purpose of certifying the legal status of educational institutions or certifying changes in existing status. The records consist of photostatic duplicates of charters and amendments issued to the institutions.

Creator

• University of the State of New York. Board of Regents

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Enrolled decrees transcribed into libers

Series Number

JN307

Summary

This series contains original enrolled decrees that were transcribed into the bound volumes that comprise Series JN306, Transcriptions of Enrolled Decrees into Libers. The enrolled decree was the final determination in an equity case involving a complainant and defendant.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

This series is closed to researchers due to its fragile physical condition. Researchers should use the transcription of the case papers found in Series JN306, Transcriptions of Enrolled Decrees into Libers.

Title

Jamaica Bay - Peconic Bay Canal Board administrative files

Series Number

B0238

Summary

The Jamaica Bay - Peconic Bay Canal Board determined costs for bridges and rights of way for a proposed canal on the south side of Long Island. Consisting primarily of correspondence and exhibit files, records also include survey progress reports, town resolutions, minutes of meetings and public hearings, expense accounts, blueprints, maps, and photographs. Topics covered include property values, possible routes, construction estimates, possible obstacles to canal navigation, and opinions on proposed routes.

Creator

• Jamaica Bay - Peconic Bay Canal Board

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives dietary record books

Series Number

B1640

Summary

The series consists of dietary records of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, which was renamed in 1919 as the Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives. The registers list separate breakfast, dinner, and supper menus for family, employees, and pupils according to date and building.

Creator

• Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Photographs

Series Number

B1898

Summary

Craig Colony for Epileptics was established in 1894 to offer residential, educational, occupational, and medical facilities for epileptics. It remained an institution for epileptics until 1967. Photographs in this series depict patient and employee housing; patient activities and recreation; treatment facilities; facility grounds and surrounding areas; livestock and gardens; staff; and other aspects of center life.

Creator

• Craig Developmental Center (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Photographs depicting patients 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.

Title

Commission on Public Integrity annual reports

Series Number

B2349

Summary

This series contains annual reports of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity and its predecessor entities, the New York Temporary State Commission on Lobbying and the New York State Ethics Commission. The reports include information on the commissions' education and outreach efforts, enforcement, legislation, disclosure requirements, investigations, advisory opinions, structure, and commission members. They also provide financial listings of lobbyists.

Creator

• New York (State). Commission On Public Integrity

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Conciliation case files

Series Number

17507

Summary

This series consists of fact-finding reports created by a Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) mediator. The reports summarize the disputed issues and recommend resolutions between public employers and employee organizations in contract negotiations that have reached an impasse. The case files in this series are signified by "M" numbers.

Creator

• New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Conciliation Unit

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Register of military bounty land grants

Series Number

A0476

Summary

The published version of the Balloting Book contains documents and lists relating to the allotment of bounty lands in the Military Tract in central New York and includes. names of soldiers by regiment with location and acreage of grant and date of patent. Also provided are lists of officers and soldiers by unit; of lots in each township with acreage; and of Canadian and Nova Scotian Refugees entitled to land grants with lot numbers assigned to them.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

District Supervisors' correspondence and administrative files

Series Number

A4176

Summary

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, reports, travel orders, supply requisitions, time sheets ("employee depositions") and occasional employment applications ("personnel questionnaires"). These records were used by the district supervisors of the Historical Records Survey and were periodically transferred to the office of the state director. Most correspondence and memorandums in this series are between district supervisors and the state director, field workers, and administrative officials of the Works Progress Administration.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Researchers must agree in writing not to divulge personally identifiable information from personnel related forms found in files (e.g. "Personnel Questionnaire"), before access is granted.