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Title

Writers' Program correspondence and working files of the District 1 supervisor's office

Series Number

A4190

Summary

This series contains mostly "field editorial copy" prepared by field workers for several statewide and local projects in District 1 (Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington Counties) including New York: A Guide to the Empire State (published); New York State Encyclopedia; New York State Almanac; Historical Album of New York State; and city guides. Essay topics include: local history; origin of place names; local biography; folklore; historic sites and structures; and natural history. Correspondence clarifies assignment requirements.

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

Writers Program working files of the District 2 supervisor's office

Series Number

A4191

Summary

This series mostly contains files of "field editorial copy" prepared by field workers in District 2 (Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, and Ulster counties) for statewide and local writing projects such as New York: A Guide to the Empire State (published); Guide to Albany (published); New York State Encyclopedia; and New York State Almanac. Files may contain manuscript drafts of copy on subjects such as local history, biography and events; business and commercial establishments; and historic sites and structures.

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

Work reports and personnel, travel, and purchasing files

Series Number

A4177

Summary

This series consists of various types of administrative records relating to work progress, personnel matters, travel, and purchasing activities. The following types of records are included: monthly narrative and statistical reports by district supervisors; periodic work status reports by the central office; lists of workers in each district; personnel reports; labor reports; district supervisors' weekly itinerary reports; employee depositions; requisitions for workers; travel orders; purchase orders; and correspondence concerning personnel, travel, and purchasing matters.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Researchers must agree in writing, before access is granted, not to divulge personally identifiable information from personnel-related forms found in files (e.g. "Personnel Questionnaire"); restricted until 55 years after end date of series.

Title

State Directors' correspondence and reports files

Series Number

A4188

Summary

This series contains administrative files of the State Director of the Federal Writers' Project mostly from District Number 2 (Albany, Rensselaer, Greene, and Ulster Counties). Records include correspondence about administrative issues; WPA personnel record forms which include name, address family members, educational and work history; and daily time reports for the Troy office.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

Personnel Record Forms are restricted to protect personal privacy for55 years after creation of form.

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

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.

Title

New York State Historical Records Survey biweekly payroll

Series Number

A4185

Summary

This series consists of payroll sheets for administrative, field, and support staff of the Historical Records Survey. Each payroll covers a two week period, and each page indicates whether the employees listed were "certified" (drawn from relief rolls) or "non-certified" (non-relief). Records list employee name; address; title; sex; WPA identification number; employment classification (supervisory, professional, skilled, intermediate, unskilled); number of hours worked; wage rate; and amount paid.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Letters of commendation for WPA programs

Series Number

A0123

Summary

Series includes letters of commendation written to the Service and Operations Divisions for art, music, adult education programs, and infrastructure projects sponsored by the "Works Progress Administration of New York State," under auspices of the State Education Department. They contain considerable information about WPA cultural and educational programs in New York State (outside of New York City). There are separate county indexes for both divisions showing correspondent and title, institution, address, and subject. Operations Division index also shows project number.

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

New York State Historical Records Survey institution forms

Series Number

A0137

Summary

Following the entrance of the United States into World War II, the federal government took steps to safeguard the nation's cultural resources against potential destruction. This series consists of Historical Records Survey forms used to record storage information of institutions in New York State that were custodians of public records, art objects, museum artifacts, books, manuscripts, or other library materials.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Civilian Conservation Corps camp and personnel files

Series Number

A3268

Summary

Following passage of the Emergency Conservation Work Act in 1933, the federal government recruited and trained unemployed men ages seventeen to twenty-eight to develop forest lands and parks. In New York, the program commonly and later officially known as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) focused on recreation, fishery, forestry, and pest control projects. The series consists of correspondence, reports, work plans, general orders, work applications, and personnel files related to New York's CCC camps.

Creator

• New York (State). Conservation Department

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Inventory of town, village, and city records

Series Number

A4180

Summary

This series consists primarily of inventory forms completed by Historical Records Survey workers for each series of records surveyed in town, village, and city offices in upstate counties. The files contain all or some of the following: handwritten copies of survey forms prepared by field workers; typewritten copies of field workers' survey forms; typewritten copies of survey forms prepared after review and field checking; historical sketches of town, village, and city offices; and correspondence concerning transmittal of survey forms.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Federal Writers' Project Director's publications working files

Series Number

A0551

Summary

This series contains files relating to proposed publications of the New York State Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Included are files of projects undertaken at both statewide and local levels. Publications included travel and tourism guides to New York State and local communities; the New York State Almanac; the New York State Encyclopedia; and publications on such topics as health, wildlife, and agriculture.

Creator

• Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.)

Title

Inventory of county records

Series Number

A0550

Summary

This series consists primarily of inventory forms completed by Historical Records Survey workers for maps, photographs, and records surveyed in upstate county offices. Records include progress sheet for each county office; survey forms prepared by field workers; and historical sketches of county offices. Unbound record forms list: creating agency and subdivision; title; dates, quantity; gaps; content descriptions; indexing, arrangement, format; physical condition; and location. Building forms show floor plans. Maps and photograph forms also note authorship and publication status.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Polemic literature concerning unionism in the Works Progress Administration in New York City

Series Number

A4175

Summary

This series consists of handbills, newsletters, and a few memorandums or bulletins related to unionizing activities in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of New York City. Most of these publications were distributed by organizations on the political left and relate to WPA cultural projects.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Abstracts of broadsides identified in western New York

Series Number

A4174

Summary

These abstracts or transcriptions of broadsides were made by staff of the Buffalo district office as part of the survey of American Imprints. In addition to the abstracts there is one original broadside dated 1869. Most of the broadsides were issued in western New York, although a few come from other parts of the state and nation.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Working files for a name and subject index to French's Gazetteer of 1860

Series Number

A4186

Summary

This series consists of cards typed in preparation for compiling a complete name and subject index to the Gazetteer of the State of New York by J. H. French, published in 1860. Each card contains a name or subject entry and a page reference. Entries include personal names, political subdivision names, and geographic feature names, subjects named in the text and newspaper titles.

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

Maps, charts, and illustrations prepared by Historical Records Survey staff

Series Number

A4192

Summary

This series consists of printed half tones charts and maps, and negative photostats of maps prepared by the Historical Records Survey for publications. Included are half-tones of colonial and revolutionary era buildings; organization charts of the colonial and state court system and county government; Revolutionary era county boundaries maps; floor plans of the Onondaga County Court House; and maps showing town, village, and city boundaries in Allegany, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Lewis, Monroe, Montgomery, Oneida, and St. Lawrence counties.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Works Progress Administration sponsored surveys and studies

Series Number

A4179

Summary

This series consists of surveys and apparently unpublished studies conducted under W.P.A. sponsorship. These studies are on many subjects, but tend to focus on real estate values, land use, and population in communities in New York. Examples include police arrest survey; social and economic survey of Indian reservations; real property survey (several cities); report on Albany transients and homeless; professional and service projects; 1850 census index for Buffalo; and Erie County street names.

Creator

• United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Department of Civil Service examination announcements

Series Number

20005

Summary

This series consists of master copies of announcements for state civil service examinations. Examination announcements generally include data on position title; duties and salary; minimum qualifications for admittance to test; subject of examination, and the relative weight of its components; general information and civil service rules (such as veterans credits, fees, notification of results); and the dates on which the announcement was issued, the application period closed, and the examination was to be held.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Testing Support Services. Arrangement Unit

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Manuals, bibliographies, and indexes published by the Works Progress Administration

Series Number

A4178

Summary

This series contains catalogs, indexes, and bibliographies produced by the Works Progress Administration. The subjects of these publications are quite varied. Generally they are bibliographies or indexes of WPA studies or surveys. Guides include, but are not limited to, the following studies: records survey; real property survey; real estate activity; land use; dwelling survey; pedestrian traffic volume; suggestions for local government administration; and guidelines for preparing written materials.

Creator

• United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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