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Title

Harrison and Abramovitz South Mall project design implementation files

Series Number

16188

Summary

The architectural firm of Harrison and Abramovitz was responsible for the overall design of the Albany South Mall (Empire State Plaza) structure. The series contains correspondence, reports, scattered architectural drawings, work point index sheets, and schedules of hardware related to the implementation of Harrison and Abramovitz 's designs. The records document daily issues that arose during the construction process, rather than the development of original designs.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of General Services

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Schedule of Erie and Champlain Canal stock redeemed by the Commissioners of the Canal Fund

Series Number

A1012

Summary

This schedule provides date of payment by Commissioners of the Canal Fund; surrender date of stock; name of holder; interest rate and issuing year; and amount of certificate.

Creator

• New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Commissary General's Office annual report

Series Number

A4142

Summary

This series contains the annual report of the Commissary General's Office for 1852, prepared by Commissary General Daniel Lee.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Land Office outgoing letter books

Series Number

A0324

Summary

This series contains letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence created by the Secretary of State's deputies in the course of managing the state's publicly-owned lands. Correspondence relates to issuing of letters patent; recording and filing of land title documents; and responding to public inquiries regarding titles to real property.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Financial statements, bills, and receipts relating to geological and paleontological research

Series Number

B0581

Summary

This series consists of financial statements, bills, memorandums, and telegrams concerning the allocation and expenditure of State Museum funds. Most expenditures relate to geological and paleontological research conducted by Museum scientists. Projects include New York State's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition; the Economic and Geological Map of New York; the final volumes of the Paleontology of New York; scientific investigation of the Livonia Salt Shaft and Museum Memoir 2, Palaeozoic Reticulate Sponges, Constituting the Family Dictyospongidae.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Annual reports of incorporated charities

Series Number

A1984

Summary

This series contains reports submitted by orphan asylums, hospitals, shelters for the homeless, and other charitable institutions receiving state funding. Each report is divided into two sections: Schedule A contains financial data including the value of real and personal property, investments, indebtedness, receipts, expenditures, and cash on hand; and Schedule B contains statistical summaries on the number and sex of inmates, including admissions and discharges.

Creator

• New York (State). State Board of Charities

Access Restrictions

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

Title

East Rockaway tax assessment rolls and village board meeting minutes

Series Number

A4624

Creator

• East Rockaway (N.Y. : Village)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Great Meadow Correctional Institution admission registers

Series Number

B2396

Summary

This series consists of admission registers for inmates incarcerated in Great Meadow Prison and later Great Meadow Correctional Institution.

Creator

• Great Meadow Correctional Institution

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

Red Hook town records

Series Number

A4630

Summary

Microfilm includes election records containing election results, election inspector returns, statement of canvass, and election result reports from the town, city, village, or district clerk, or from the county board of elections. Two volumes from the commissioner of highways, a predecessor to the office of superintendents of highways, contain highway alterations; Justice Court docket of small claims cases; school district boundaries; stray animal violations; and information pertaining to highway maintenance and town district oversight. Tax rolls used by the school district as record of payment for school taxes are listed by district number.

Creator

• Red Hook (N.Y. : Town)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Employee time books

Series Number

B2382

Summary

This series documents employee time worked and pay rate at the Rome State Custodial Asylum, Rome State School, and Rome Developmental Center. Information includes employee's name, dates worked, pay rate, days and hours worked, and amount paid for period. Information for some patients who served as "de facto" employees at the School is also present.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Access Restrictions

Because these time books may include entries for patients informally serving as employees, these records are 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

New York State Governor W. Averell Harriman index to central subject and correspondence files

Series Number

B1853

Summary

This subject listing was created to index accretion 13682-96, New York State Governor W. Averell Harriman Central Subject and Correspondence Files.

Creator

• New York (State). Governor (1955-1958 : Harriman)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Publicity materials relating to Attica Correctional Facility riot of 1971

Series Number

22577

Summary

This series documents publicity about the Attica Correctional Facility riot and its aftermath, and the effort of the Division of State Police to track that publicity. The records include newspaper clippings (texts and pictures), wirephoto prints and other photographs, printouts of <emph render="italic">New York Times</emph> abstracts of news stories and editorials, and copies of press releases by Governor Hugh L. Carey, 1976.

Creator

• New York State Police

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Thomas Indian School children's case files

Series Number

B0595

Summary

This series consists of case files for children enrolled in the Thomas Indian School (formerly the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children). Files contain information on admission, education, discharge, medical and family history, and occasionally post-release activities. Data includes child's name, reservation tribe, age or birth date, and dates at school. Also included is correspondence with parent/guardian and with State Probation Department.

Creator

• Thomas Indian School

Access Restrictions

Restricted: Access to records is administered according to provisions of the Freedom of Information Law.

Title

New York State Board of Charities registers of tramps applying for relief

Series Number

A1990

Summary

This series consists of standard reporting forms submitted to the Board of Charities by keepers or officers in charge of poorhouses and almshouses. The forms provide personal data regarding tramps who applied to local overseers of the poor, police, or keepers of poorhouses and almshouses for food and/or lodging.

Creator

• New York (State). State Board of Charities

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Land Office register of petitions and correspondence related to escheated lands

Series Number

A0330

Summary

Laws of 1890, Chapter 279 recognized the persisting legal interest in escheated real property of any person who could have inherited ("succeeded by devise") the property except for the fact of "his alienage (non-citizenship) or a legal incapacity to take or convey the property so escheated." The exact purpose for which this volume was used is unclear, but it very possibly documents communications between the Commissioners of the Land Office and parties with interest in real property escheated to the state.

Creator

• New York (State). Commissioners of the Land Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Statistical register pertaining to the 1864 enrollment of men liable for duty in the National Guard

Series Number

A4156

Summary

This volume contains the statistical results of the 1864 enrollment as mandated by legislation of 1862. This enrollment pertains to men eligible for service in the state's National Guard, as opposed to the enrollment of 1862, which recorded men eligible to be drafted into the federal service. Data provided includes district number; and for each town, the total number of men enrolled, exempt, and liable to duty. These figures are then totaled on a county-wide level.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Professional activities files

Series Number

B1106

Summary

This series documents professional activities in which staff of the Department of Civil Service were engaged. Records include reports, programs and summaries of proceedings from the Eastern States Regional Conference of the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, newsletters, bulletins, and various publications.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Civil Service

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Applications and letters of endorsement

Series Number

B0218

Summary

This series consists of correspondence directed mainly to the State Engineer and Surveyor's office. Most correspondence contains requests for employment, applications, or letters of endorsement. The series was compiled in proximity to the time it became apparent that the state would construct the Barge Canal.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Hearing transcripts and investigation reports

Series Number

B1660

Summary

This series consists of typed transcripts of hearings and reports of investigations conducted by the State Commission on Lunacy (later the State Hospital Commission), which was responsible for inspecting mental health institutions. Subjects include alleged mistreatment of patients, theft of food, poor food quality, and unsanitary conditions at state hospitals.

Creator

• New York (State). State Hospital Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Observational notes on female patients

Series Number

B2369

Summary

This series consists of observational notes on the condition of women inmates housed in the Rome State Custodial Asylum. It consists of brief, handwritten entries, with an alphabetical index in the front of the volume. The record for each patient varies in length, and it documents the patient's changing state of mental and physical health from time of admittance to the hospital, and in some cases, until time of discharge, transfer or death.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

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.