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Title

Daily statements of bank balances of the Canal Fund

Series Number

A1056

Summary

These statements from the Comptroller's Office include daily bank balances to the credit of various funds constituting the Canal Fund.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Division of Coastal Resources federal consistency project review files

Series Number

19599

Summary

This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence; memorandums; project summaries; project descriptions; consistency determinations and supporting reports; maps and drawings; status reports; public notices; and evaluations and consistency review decisions. The series pertains to those projects that are either directly funded by the federal government, require a federal permit, or involve actions by a federal agency such as the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Coastal Resources

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Orders assigning inmates to religious divisions

Series Number

A3127

Summary

This series consists of orders from the superintendent of the State Agricultural and Industrial School assigning new or returning inmates to the Protestant or Catholic Division. Information may include date of order; inmate name; religious affiliation; date received; and inmate number. Also included are lists of paroled Protestant inmates providing inmate name; inmate number; date left institution; and age.

Creator

• New York (State). State Agricultural and Industrial School

Access Restrictions

Restricted in accordance with Executive Law, Section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services).

Title

Garden City records

Series Number

A4648

Creator

• Garden City (N.Y. : Village)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Meeting files

Series Number

18687

Summary

The series consists of start-up files and meeting records of the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Commission. Records include information on: the formation of the commission; membership appointments and roster; fundraising; final and interim reports; subcommittee meetings; special projects; meeting agendas and remarks; committee work and related documents.

Creator

• New York (State). Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Registers of accessioned and classified negatives

Series Number

A3133

Summary

Lantern slides were compiledas instructional aids for the public school curriculum. More than 20,000 unique images dating from 1856-1939 document a wide variety of subjects, including New York State, North American and world geography, history, natural sciences, fine arts, trades, industries, education, and schools. These accessioning registers contain list all images accepted making up the loan collection of educational lantern slides. Organized by negative number, data entered also includes call number; title; location; and source and maker of negative.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Visual Instruction

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Bills and correspondence of the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad

Series Number

B1181

Summary

This series documents the articles and quantity of items shipped using the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad Company. Each bill is signed by the superintendent of the railroad company and includes the toll that was charged for shipment. Bills were submitted to the Comptroller in accordance with a law of 1834 incorporating the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad Company and requiring it to pay canal tolls on freight it carried and to submit statements thereof to the Comptroller.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Education Department Commissioner Francis T. Spaulding subject files

Series Number

W0102

Summary

This series reflects Francis T. Spaulding's tenure as President of the University of the State of New York and Commissioner of Education of New York State from 1946 to 1950. Included are correspondence, reports, meeting materials, press releases, and other materials related to New York State higher education, especially the State University of New York; to the creation of and laws governing the State University of New York; and to various interdepartmental committees and commissions on which Commissioner Spaulding served.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Commissioner Francis T. Spaulding

Access Restrictions

Commissioners in Schools Files: Restricted to protect personal privacy. Access may be permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the State Archives.

Title

Court of Appeals Justices' registers

Series Number

J0312

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Appeals

Access Restrictions

Access to this series is restricted. Prior permission of Court of Appeals is required as stipulated by State Judiciary Law, Section 90.10.

Title

Annual reports

Series Number

B2463

Summary

This series consists of annual reports of the Judicial Council. Reports include information on the condition of business within the courts (intake and disposition of civil and criminal cases, work of grand juries, business in clerks' offices, totals of cases pending and delay, etc.), and extensive recommendations (new and renewed) requiring action by the legislature to improve the administration of justice.

Creator

• New York (State). Judicial Council

Access Restrictions

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

Title

State Architect ledger of office expenses and state facility accounts

Series Number

B0274

Summary

This series consists of a record of office expenses and expenses for state facilities. Information includes account; position (e.g., stenographer); facility or other type of expense; date; to whom or for what paid; amount spent for office expenses; individual employees' salaries; traveling expenses; and state facilities.

Creator

• New York (State). State Architect

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Transcripts of Personnel Council conferences of departmental representatives

Series Number

B0512

Summary

This series consists of transcripts of the Personnel Council's monthly conferences with department representatives. Included are meeting summaries; conference papers; panel discussions; Department of Civil Service staff presentations and the minutes of the conference business meeting. Subjects include general personnel management; civil service programs; State personnel practices and policies; and activities of the Civil Service Commission and of the Personnel Council.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Personnel Council

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Secretary to the Governor correspondence files

Series Number

B2305

Summary

This series contains letters received, copies of letters sent, and a few enclosures and memoranda relating to official and personal matters. It also contains copies of memoranda primarily sent to Governor W. Averell Harriman and Counsel Daniel Gutman. The memoranda to the Counsel are mainly concerned with legislation while the memoranda to the Governor concern legislation and other official matters.

Creator

• New York (State). Governor. Secretary to the Governor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Affidavits of war service and property by Revolutionary War veterans

Series Number

J6011

Summary

This series consists of sworn affidavits by Revolutionary War veterans intending to apply for pensions. Each affidavit includes statements of the veteran's war service; a schedule of his real and personal property; applicant's age; residence; former military rank; and physical disability (if any). Such affidavits could be made in any court of record, but were most often made in the Court of Common Pleas, rather than the Supreme Court.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Security risk program files

Series Number

B0506

Summary

This series consists of files for the Civil Service Commission's security risk program which determined if private organizations or groups were subversive and designated state agencies and individual positions as "security agencies" or "positions." The background and administrative files, subject files and correspondence contain detailed information on the development and operation of the program, on groups designated as subversive, on organizations opposing the program, and on individuals and groups who appealed security risk determinations. Some records may be restricted.

Creator

• New York (State). Civil Service Commission

Access Restrictions

Restriction on disclosure of names or other personal identifying information on dismissed individuals who are still living for 40 years after records produced.

Title

State Industrial School superintendent's daily journal

Series Number

A1903

Summary

This series consists of journals, or diaries containing brief daily entries. Typical daily entries may include information about inmate admissions and discharges; inmate escapes; institution population counts; holiday events; Board of Managers meetings; Board of Managers attendance at Sunday service; and special topics such as Civil War service enlistments of former inmates.

Creator

• New York (State). State Industrial School

Access Restrictions

Restricted in part in accordance with Executive Law, Section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services).

Title

Surrogates' certificates of wills and executors

Series Number

B1618

Summary

This series consists of certificates made by officers of county surrogate's courts certifying the validity and correctness of wills and the conferring of letters testamentary (or letters of administration) granting the powers of executor. Submission of these certificates was apparently required by the State Comptroller's office before deeds could be issued to certain parties, pertinent to inheritance of property on which unpaid taxes were owed. Only certificates for surnames beginning in the letter range P-Z are present.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Historic sites bronze marker file

Series Number

11890

Summary

These files document the placement, with State financial aid, of hundreds of bronze tablets commemorating sites of historical significance in the colonial, revolutionary, or state formative periods. The files include financial application, historical importance of site, structure, person, or event commemorated and citation of sources for this information; description and sketch or plan of marker; text of inscription; and location of marker. The series does not contain information on the thousands of iron roadside markers erected under the same legislative appropriation.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Freedom Train documents

Series Number

B2477

Summary

This series documents the material that was included in the New York State "Freedom Train" exhibit, which was organized by the Temporary State Commission for the New York Freedom Train and traveled the state from January 1949 to February 1950.

Creator

• New York State Library

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Statement of work done under contract on Erie Canal Enlargement

Series Number

A1095

Summary

This series consists of a statement of work "under contract, or upon which work had been done," before resumption of work on enlarging Erie Canal in 1837; also statements of work begun on the Erie Canal in spring of 1848 and 1849. Contracts are listed by section number, including aqueducts, weighlocks, bridges, etc., and give estimated cost, cost to complete, and length in miles or number of structures.

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.