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Displaying 6074 Finding Aids
Title
- Project files and reports
Series Number
- 14104
Summary
- This series consists of project files and reports of the Planning Section. Report topics include turnover of civil service technicians, professional entrance program, nationwide recruitment activities, reasons for resignation from state service, and management improvement. Project files include surveys of the operations of Department units, investigations of civil service issues and routine administrative matters. Also included are the results of a 1956 study of all entry-level titles and promotion charts for competitive-class positions in State service.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Planning Section
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Newspaper clippings regarding canal operations and conditions
Series Number
- B0332
Summary
- This series consists of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to Erie and Barge Canal operations. Topics covered by the clippings include canal finances; safety; improvements; employees; maintenance; contracts; structures; the decline of the Erie Canal; and construction of the Barge Canal.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works. General Inspector's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Unified services and local services management records
Series Number
- B2525
Summary
- This series documents plans concerning the allocation of state resources to local providers of services throughout New York State. These records include county plans, correspondence with state departments and county agencies, reports, and budgets pertaining to individual institutions.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Index to Department orders
Series Number
- B1004
Summary
- This series consists of card file that indexes orders and actions such as: position appointments and salary increases; applications for sewage, water supply and special protection; trespassing actions; dam approvals; pollution cases; settlements of fire cases; permit issuances. The orders are arranged alphabetically by subject, for four different time periods.
Creator
- New York (State). Conservation Department. Executive Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Civil Defense Commission subject files
Series Number
- 13125
Summary
- The series includes correspondence, memoranda, plans, press releases, reports and cost estimates of the Civil Defense Commission activity, through the early 1970s. Activities documented include fallout shelter construction, emergency radio networks, disaster planning, and population evacuation engineering plans, specifications, designs, and cost estimates for planned fallout shelter construction throughout the state. Most of the records relate to shelters at state institutions.
Creator
- New York State Civil Defense Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- List of causes
Series Number
- J1162
Summary
- This multi-page document is an alphabetical listing of cases in the Court for the Correction of Errors that were commenced after June 1842 and were still pending and undecided in July 1847, when the court was abolished. The pending cases were transferred to the newly established Court of Appeals.
Creator
- New York (State). Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Writs of capias ad respondendum and other sheriff's writs
Series Number
- JN543
Summary
- Collection contains writs of arrest and a small number of other writs, issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Over ninety percent of the documents are writs of capias ad respondendum, ordering a sheriff to arrest a civil defendant, thereby bringing him into the court's custody to answer the plaintiff's declaration of claim. Also present are writs of fieri facias and writs of capias ad satisfaciendum, ordering a sheriff to execute a civil judgment, and other writs for special purposes. At the end of the series are a few writs issued by the Court of Chancery, 1810-1813.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Access Restrictions
- Use and reproduction of fragile documents may be restricted.
Title
- New York Colony Council British Delaware River settlement administrative records
Series Number
- A1879
Summary
- This series contains legal and administrative records, in English and Dutch, documenting the period of English control over the Delaware region by colonial governors Richard Nicholls, Francis Lovelace, and Edmund Andros. The records include correspondence, reports, petitions, accounts, survey-returns, copies of local court proceedings sent to Fort James, letters, orders, warrants, instructions, and patents.
Creator
- New York (Colony). Council.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Barge Canal System residency maps
Series Number
- B1762
Summary
- This series consists of approximately 240 linen maps showing locations of channels, structures, appropriated lands, and terminals of the Erie, Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga and Seneca Canals, as well as the location of old canals in relation to the Barge Canal System as improved under laws of 1903, 1909, and 1911. The improved canals would become the Barge Canal System. The maps contain information regarding individual structures and appropriated lands not found on other maps of canal lands.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Issue rolls and continuance rolls
Series Number
- J3013
Summary
- This series contains issue rolls, which contain all the same parts and information as judgment rolls up to and including the award of writ of venire facias juratores. (See finding aids for Series J0134, J0137, and J0140.) The issue roll was prepared only for important cases tried at the bar of the Supreme Court of Judicature. (A nisi prius roll was drawn up for causes tried on the circuit.)
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Education Department Office of the Commissioner executive assistant subject files
Series Number
- B0468
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, pamphlets, clippings, and salary schedules generated or received by the Executive Assistant to the Commissioner. These files are fragmentary and non-comprehensive in nature. Subjects include: psychological services to schools; activities of the Motion Picture Division; educational films and audio-visual materials published guides; the Governor's Committee on Library Aid; and salary proposals for state teachers' colleges, district superintendents, New York State School for the Blind, and New York State Education Department employees.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Office of the Commissioner
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Card index to case files
Series Number
- B1776
Summary
- This series consists of a card index to Public Service Commission unified case files and Second District case files. Cards are typewritten originals or photostat copies. Cards contain name of company, agency, or individual involved in the case; case number; related case numbers; title or summary of case; name of complainant; date received; and date closed. The index does not contain any cards for cases concerning railroad companies.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Service Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Records of incorporations, licenses, and authorizations
Series Number
- 17431
Summary
- The records in this series are copies of authorization certificates and licenses issued by the Superintendent of Banks. Prior to 1904 the copies are entered in record ("ledger") books. After 1904 the copies are in post binders. The certificates authorize banking organizations to commence business, increase capital stock, establish trust departments, open branches, etc.
Creator
- New York (State). Banking Department. Documents Unit
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Department of Financial Services archived websites
Series Number
- B2519
Summary
- This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible website of the New York State Department of Financial Services.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Financial Services
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility inmate work release case files
Series Number
- B1010
Summary
- These records relate to work release programs for approximately sixty inmates during 1973 and 1974. Most of the records pertain to inmates in Bedford's Reformatory Division, although several pertain to inmates in the Prison Division. Inmate files include work release agreement; work release report; request for disbursement of funds; correspondence and memorandums relating to transportation, purchase of clothing, inability to work because of illness, etc.; and several black and white photographs of the inmate.
Creator
- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
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
- Food Supply Commission scrapbook
Series Number
- A0226
Summary
- The clippings and correspondence in this scrapbook relate broadly to statewide operations of the Food Commission. The commission oversaw state policy relating to production, supply, and distribution control of food, ensuring that there were adequate supplies at reasonable and preventing speculation and hoarding during wartime. Topics include: local relations with the state; farm bureau labor rallies; disposition of poultry stock and eggs; labor shortages and state aid proposals; plans to "conscript" boys and girls in farm labor; and conservation efforts.
Creator
- New York (State). Food Supply Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Boat inspectors' weekly reports
Series Number
- A1138
Summary
- This series from the Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department consists weekly reports listing date of inspection; clearance number; where issued; name of boat; hailing place; name of master; destination; draft of boat (in feet of water); nature of cargo; "character of inspection" (measurement used); and notes of any errors or omissions. The report also includes date; name of inspector; and place of inspection. Series is apparently fragmentary.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Assembly action logs and roll call votes
Series Number
- L0211
Summary
- This series consists of carbon sets which record activity and roll call votes on legislation, along with copies of original bills and computer printouts listing cumulative legislative actions. The printouts show bill number, sponsor, section of state law affected, title, and dates of referral, enactment, or other action.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Clerk of the Assembly
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Callicoon town board minutes and assessment rolls
Series Number
- A4726
Summary
- This series contains town board minutes dating from 1842 to 1997 and tax assessment rolls dating from 1893 to 1998.
Creator
- Callicoon (N.Y. : Town)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Nursery daybooks
Series Number
- B1575
Summary
- This series consists of a daily log of attendance, scheduling, and treatment information for inmates at the Westfield State Farm nursery facility. Entries typically include date; population count (morning and evening); names of patients admitted or discharged; names of visitors (with time); names of officers and others on duty (and shift times); orders; and activity notes (on medications, monitoring, scheduling, etc.).
Creator
- Westfield State Farm
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.