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Title

Joint Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions postwar planning background files

Series Number

L0071

Summary

These records were gathered by the Joint Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions in planning programs to foster economic expansion in the State after World War II. They contain information from federal and state agencies as well as private industries and organizations. Records include correspondence, reports, bulletins, pamphlets, and articles on topics such as veteran's employment, training, public works programs, agricultural development, and expansion in construction and manufacturing industries.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions

Access Restrictions

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

Title

State, district, county, and special highway planning maps

Series Number

A3229

Summary

This series consists of state and county highway maps showing completed, improved, and proposed roads. Most are official published county highway maps, annotated to show state and county highway systems corrected to 1936. Also included are publications and correspondence on special highway projects in New York City, dating from the 1940s and early 1950s, and a number of World War II maps indicating military priority highways.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Public Works. Bureau of Research and Statistics

Access Restrictions

Use is restricted: Use only under supervision or with assistance of archivist due to fragile physical condition.

Title

Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program folk music concert recordings

Series Number

20016

Summary

This accretion consists of a series of eight two-hour digital audiotape (DAT) cartridges of folk music concerts entitled "Families of New Yorkers" sponsored by the Council's Folk Arts Program. The concerts feature authentic folk music by performers from a wide variety of New York ethnic and geographic backgrounds, most of whom had never before been recorded. In addition to the actual performances, each tape contains ca. 10-15 minutes of introductory remarks that discuss the backgrounds of the performers and attempt to place the music in context.

Creator

• New York State Council on the Arts. Folk Arts Program

Title

Ledger of accounts with attorneys

Series Number

B0608

Summary

This series consists of what appears to be a ledger of accounts with attorneys. It is unknown if it is a record of the Attorney General's Office or of a private law firm. The notes accompanying the debit and credit entries are brief and cryptic.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Syllabi and bulletins for guidance of nurse training schools

Series Number

B1516

Summary

This series consists of bulletins (pamphlets) published by several agencies related to the training of nurses. Topics include Public Health Law on nursing topics; nursing in state institutions; schools for trained attendants; violations of Public Health Law; and the Nursing Advisory Council. Also included is a syllabus for nurses training; special rules relating to registration of nursing schools; and names and institutional affiliations of members of the Board of Nurse Examiners and the Nurse Advisory Council.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Board of Nursing

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Wholesale dry bean and grain crop reports

Series Number

13437

Summary

This series consists of official wholesale price reports that were used to exchange information by those in the trade who made decisions relating to production and marketing. These reports pertain only to beans.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Agriculture and Markets. Division of Marketing

Access Restrictions

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

Title

County clerks' certificates of searches for New York and Erie Railroad Company records

Series Number

A0913

Summary

This series consists of reports of county clerk searches made for records of contracts made by, mortgages and conveyances given by, and judgments against the New York and Erie Railroad Company. Also included is a form requesting the clerk of a county Supreme Court to search for records of judgment against the company. Information includes county; date; records found, if any; and the clerk's certification.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Elmira Reformatory Classification Clinic receiving register

Series Number

B1270

Summary

This series consists of a register of incarcerated individuals received at Elmira Reformatory. The volume relates to consecutive numbers 42170 to 49999. The register contains the incarcerated individual's name and number; date received; room number; room moved to; age; county; religion; and color. In cases where the person was transferred to another prison, the register includes the date of transfer and name of other prison.

Creator

• Elmira Reformatory. Classification Clinic

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

Original proceedings case files

Series Number

J0008

Summary

This series consists of cases and briefs from two cases originally introduced in the Appellate Division, Third Department, appealed to the Court of Appeals, and then remitted to the Appellate Division. The cases include a 1942 proceeding to remove a local fire department chief under a provision of the Public Officers Law and a 1954 habeas corpus proceeding.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division. Third Department

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Antitrust investigation and litigation files

Series Number

17123

Summary

The Antitrust Bureau of the Department of Law reviews anti-competitive practices that raise prices paid by consumers and government to purchase goods and services necessary for everyday living and the proper functioning of government. The series consists of legal case files, briefs, settlement negotiations, investigation files, hearing records, related correspondence and memoranda, and some administrative records produced by the Antitrust Bureau and its predecessor agencies in investigating complaints and bringing civil and criminal actions against violators of the antitrust laws.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Law. Antitrust Bureau

Access Restrictions

Records may contain grand jury testimony which is closed under the Criminal Procedures Law, and other records that may contain information that is exempt from disclosure pursuant to state or federal statute or common law. Use under supervision; reference archivist should scan contents and withhold any grand jury testimony for return to the Department of Law.

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Public Service Commission annual reports of public utility companies

Series Number

13345

Summary

This series consists of annual reports submitted by public utilities (water, gas, electricity, steam, telephone, telegraph, railroad, and radio-telephone companies) to the Public Service Commission and then the Department of Public Service. Reports are filed by three types of public entities operating public utilities subject to regulation by the Public Service Commission: commercial, municipal, and private associations. The original statute establishing the Commission and subsequent amendments to the law required public utilities to prepare and file an annual report.

Creator

• New York (State). Public Service Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Board of Visitors sign-in logs

Series Number

B1502

Summary

This series consists of sign-in logbooks for the Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center) Board of Visitors. Special visits by board members to specific areas of the hospital are noted with dates and signatures, as well as attendance at regularly scheduled board meetings. Minutes of board meetings are included for the earliest years.

Creator

• Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Entry documentation for Utica and Schenectady railroad and Schenectady and Troy railroad

Series Number

A0907

Summary

This series from the Comptroller's Office contains records of the Utica & Schenectady and Schenectady & Troy Railroads. Records include statements and reports related to property on the railroad (agricultural and manufactured products, stocks.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Air contamination source files

Series Number

18576

Summary

The Bureau of Stationary Sources (formerly Bureau of Application Review and Permitting), a sub-division of the Division of Air Resources, coordinates all air permitting activities within the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The records document the implementation of an ambient air monitoring program, including meteorological monitoring. Documents detail the results of sampling and analyses conducted under the Ambient Air Monitoring Network Plan (Work Plan) approved by DEC in 1992. Included are reports, description of the model, and analytical and laboratory data packages.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation. Bureau of Application Review and Permitting

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Harbor Commission description of the bulkhead and pier lines of the Port of New York

Series Number

B0634

Summary

This series contains descriptions of maps of bulkhead, pier lines and encroachments of New York Harbor, as well as portions of the shores of New Jersey, the Harlem River, the East River, Long Island, and Westchester County, created pursuant to Chapter 121 of the Laws of 1855. Many of the maps described are part of Series B2570, New York State New York Harbor Commission Bulkhead and Pier Lines and Encroachment Maps, although some are still held by the New York State Office of General Services.

Creator

• New York (State). Harbor Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Tri-State Transportation Committee aerial photographs

Series Number

B2023

Summary

This series consists of transparent aerial photographic maps depicting southern New York State, western Connecticut, and northern New Jersey. The maps were created to facilitate landmark planning studies in the areas of rapid transit and the interstate highway system. Names of most streets and roads are printed on the maps, as well as the names of some physical features.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Franklin County town and village records

Series Number

A4591

Summary

Microfilmed records include town clerk's record and minute books (and in some cases other records as well) for the towns of Bellmont, Bombay, Brighton, Burke, Chateaugay, Franklin, Harrietstown, and Westville; and for the villages of Chateaugay and Malone.

Creator

• Franklin (N.Y. : County)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Adirondack Park Agency Regulatory Programs Division project files

Series Number

16573

Summary

The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is responsible for insuring that all building in the Park is compatible with the natural character of the land, and has a minimum adverse affect on the environment. The Operations Division, now the Regulatory Programs Division, is responsible for the review of all projects undertaken in the Adirondack Park that fall within the APA's jurisdiction and for coordinating and administering all permit related activity associated with the review of the projects.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Access Restrictions

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

Title

President/CEO subject and correspondence files

Series Number

B2745

Summary

This series consists of the correspondence and subject files created by the president/CEO of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC). The files mainly contain general administrative materials as well as records related to the core community development functions of RIOC.

Creator

• Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Court of Probates administration bonds

Series Number

J0034

Summary

These volumes contain bonds of persons appointed by the State Court of Probates to administer and settle the estate of a decedent. Each bond states the name of three obligors, the amount and condition of the bond, the names of the administrator and two sureties, and the signatures of the obligors.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Probates

Access Restrictions

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