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Displaying 671 Finding Aids
Title
- Reports by stock corporations
Series Number
- A1248
Summary
- This series consists of questionnaires sent by the Comptroller's office to corporations, joint stock associations, and navigation companies asking for their financial data. Information includes name of the corporation or association; place of principal business and office; amount of capital stock; capital stock paid in; number of stock shares and par value; actual value of capital stock per share; amount of funded debt, surplus funds, and sinking funds; net earnings; and taxes paid in 1867.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Deputy Commissioner's subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- B2721
Summary
- This series consists of the subject and correspondence files of Eugene J. Leff, Deputy Commissioner for Remediation and Materials Management, and James M. Tierney, Assistant Commissioner for Water Resources. The records reflect the executive level decision and policy making of individuals in these positions in relation to the Marcellus Shale High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing project.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Environmental Quality and Remediation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Law Revision Commission meeting agendas and working files
Series Number
- 19331
Summary
- This series consists of agendas and copies of documents presented to members of the Law Revision Commission for their consideration and action. These documents include updates on studies in progress at the time, plans for future studies, and various other reports prepared by commission staff.
Creator
- New York (State). Law Revision Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Administrative reports of Barge Canal Lock No. 22
Series Number
- B1729
Summary
- This series consists of daily and weekly reports and logs documenting the operation of Barge Canal Lock No.22 (Sylvan Beach). Daily reports contain detailed information on the number of daily lockages including time, direction of lockage, name or number of tugboat, and registration number. Weekly reports summarize the number of lockages, number of freight and pleasure crafts, and water elevations. Station logs include daily temperatures and generator usage while the daily logs note events that occurred at the lock.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Casino Gambling Study Panel hearing, research, and report files
Series Number
- 13634
Summary
- The Casino Gambling Study Panel was established to make recommendations concerning the economic, social, and employment impact of casinos; the ways that casino gambling might be used for economic development; how the industry might be taxed, and its potential revenue; and if casinos should be publicly operated or privately operated under government supervision. The series consists of public hearing transcripts and written testimony; research studies and reports; and staff data files pertaining to taxation, regulations, economic impact, and regional unemployment.
Creator
- New York (State). Casino Gambling Study Panel
Title
- Social and economic surveys of New York cities
Series Number
- A4343
Summary
- This series primarily contains reports compiled by the federal National Resources Planning Board and the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services detailing conditions in several communities. The reports, which detail each community's conditions in education, health, housing, industry, infrastructure, labor, planning, and transportation - and discuss the impact of the war and military on these areas - were sent to the State War Council to assist with war planning efforts.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- General administrative files
Series Number
- A4394
Summary
- This series documents the Office of Civilian Protection's (OCP) efforts to establish and monitor adequate civil defense measures for New York State. The series includes correspondence with local war councils documenting personnel, activities, and equipment inventory; monthly reports from deputy directors on local war councils' civil defense organization and status; and bulletins, regulations, and memoranda from the OCP's director to local civil defense directors.
Creator
- New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Sample forms
Series Number
- B1717
Summary
- This series consists of sample forms used to gather and distribute information on the state's labor force. The forms include receipts, notices of overdue reports, and requests for information. The series also includes a brief report comparing numbers of new buildings and alterations to buildings in Buffalo and New York City and the bureau's seventh annual report.
Creator
- New York (State). Bureau of Labor Statistics
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Petitions and reports relating to colleges and schools
Series Number
- A1824
Summary
- These records reflect the Legislature's functions to incorporate schools and colleges and to appropriate funds and grant land for their operation. Included are petitions from entities seeking to incorporate a school; seeking assistance in establishing, maintaining, or expanding a school; seeking funding for use by schools; or seeking permission to sell land to raise money for a school. There are also Regents status reports and reports from colleges to the Regents.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Access Restrictions
- Access to original records is restricted due to severe burn damage sustained in the 1911 New York State Capitol building fire. Microfilm is first use copy.
Title
- Supporting documentation for 1901 report on Barge Canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes
Series Number
- B2544
Summary
- These series consists of survey data from a 1901 report on the Barge Canal from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes by Edward Bond, the State Engineer and Surveyor, and a color map of the proposed alternatives of Cohoes and vicinity to accompany the report. The map was compiled from the surveys of the U.S. Board of Engineers on Deep Waterways, from canal surveys, and a local map of the city of Troy.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Moreland Act Commission on Nursing Homes and Residential Facilities reports, hearing and press clipping files
Series Number
- 11586
Summary
- In 1975, Governor Hugh Carey invoked Section 6 of the Executive Law (Moreland Act), and by Executive Order #2 he appointed Morris B. Abram as commissioner to investigate state management of non-governmental nursing homes or facilities that received direct or indirect federal, state, or local aid, or provided care or services to any individual receiving such aid. The series consists of typescript copies of the commission's various reports, copies of public and executive session hearing testimony, and press clipping files.
Creator
- New York (State). Moreland Act Commission on Nursing Homes and Residential Facilities
Access Restrictions
- All investigative materials in Moreland Act commission records are indefinitely restricted pursuant to Executive Law sect. 6 and 63.8 and Civil Rights Law sect. 73.8. Requests for access to such materials are referred to the Governor's Office.
Title
- Report of the New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission pertaining to the construction of the Holland Tunnel
Series Number
- A0051
Summary
- This series consists of a single volume annual report of the New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission, submitted to the governor and legislature in March of 1921. The volume details progress on the construction of the Holland Tunnel connecting lower Manhattan with New Jersey. It appears to be the commission's draft copy and includes original hand-annotated and/or captioned photographs. Topics addressed include the awarding of contracts, requests for proposals, construction schedule, and distribution of costs between the two states.
Creator
- New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Superintendent and lock operator's records for Sections 1 and 2 of the Barge Canal
Series Number
- B1878
Summary
- These series documents activities carried out during the operation and maintenance of the canal. The record consist primarily of lock operator's weekly reports and includes construction and maintenance contract files, inventories, work reports, work schedules and reports, floating plant reports, gage charts and reports, subject files, and correspondence.
Creator
- New York State Canal Corporation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Farming industry operations reports
Series Number
- B1688
Summary
- This series consists of operating and financial reports, apparently created for the State Comptroller's Office, concerning the farming industry operations of Auburn State Prison. Report topics include terms for leasing the Corrigan and Elias Hardy farms, lists of equipment leased, cost schedule, memo of assets and liability, costs of products used, livestock report, expectancy of future tenancy, accounts receivable, and machinery and equipment.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- 22574
Summary
- This series contains news releases, reports, memoranda, correspondence, and hearing statements generated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as part of its participation on the Interagency Task Force (IATF) that investigated the Love Canal disaster.
Creator
- New York (State). Interagency Task Force on Hazardous Wastes
Access Restrictions
- Box 1 and 3 are partially restricted by Civil Practice Law and Rules section 3101(b) and (c) (attorney-client privileged correspondence and attorney work-product). Box 3 also partially restricted by Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) section 87.2(d) and 89.5(a)(1) making trade secrets exempt from disclosure.
Title
- Factory Investigating Commission cost of living report, draft and background notes
Series Number
- A3016
Summary
- The cost of living report, draft and background notes were used to study the laboring class in New York City. This series contains data on cost of living for single women and men; cost of living for families; workers' living conditions; and workers' earnings and expenditures. The series also contains notes from interviews with workers used as background material for the report. The notes provide information on cost of living, living arrangements, and wages of individuals.
Creator
- New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Superintendents of Repairs' measurements of water depth
Series Number
- A1159
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of monthly measurements of the water depth in canals taken every four miles on their sections, or at one point if a section was less than two miles long. The report includes measurement location, actual depth of water by measure, and an affidavit that the data are correct. The series is fragmentary. Also included is a table of soundings on the entire canal between Buffalo and Troy.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Direction and supervision of program records
Series Number
- 11960
Summary
- This series documents long range plans and establishment of policy for department programs. Records include budgets, reports, correspondence, memoranda, and long-term plans. These records help to establish activities of direction, control, and supervision of programs. Excluded are records that provide identifiable information pertaining to clients.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Survey records and estimates for proposed Chemung Canal reconstruction
Series Number
- B0390
Summary
- This series consists of maps, profiles, plans, survey documents, diagrams, estimates, the final report on the proposed improvement of the Chemung Canal. Also included are daily journals of Resident Engineer Louis A. Burns who was in charge of the project and prepared the final report. Also included are maps of Montour Falls and surrounding communities; plans and profiles of the proposed feeder, the proposed new channel; and diagrams of water levels and channel depth.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Governor W. Averell Harriman pre-gubernatorial files
Series Number
- B2342
Summary
- This series documents W. Averell Harriman's business and political endeavors between 1950 and 1954 leading up to his candidacy for governor of New York State. Records include articles, speeches, correspondence, reports, and campaign material.
Creator
- Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.