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Displaying 6074 Finding Aids
Title
- Training exercises files
Series Number
- A3278
Summary
- The bulk of this series contains correspondence, training records, reports, maps, charts, pamphlets, and handbooks that pertain to the simulated radiological situation exercises of the New York State Civil Defense Commission. Most of the correspondence involves the Civil Defense Commission's messages and message logs about schedules, situation updates, advisements and requests to the districts, requests for reports, and exercise critiques, comments, and recommendations.
Creator
- New York State Civil Defense Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Red Hook (N.Y.) records
Series Number
- A4503
Summary
- This series includes microfilmed records created by various departments of the Village of Red Hook: water department; treasurer; planning and zoning board; clerk; and board of trustees. Records also include the Village Historic Papers Collection and village maps documenting boundaries, subdivisions, land use, roads, water lines, and hydrants
Creator
- Red Hook (N.Y. : Village)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Draft report file
Series Number
- L0034
Summary
- This series consists of draft and final versions of the four-volume published report, Revolutionary Radicalism, submitted by the Committee to the New York State Senate in April 1920. The report is an exhaustive account of the Committee's investigations with extensive information on suspected radical organizations active in New York, the United States, and throughout the world. Many of the documents found in other record series of the Committee are published in the final report.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Assembly Committee on Legislative Oversight and Investigation annual report
Series Number
- A0765
Summary
- This series consists of the original typed "Year End Report" of the committee, along with photocopied reports, memoranda, and press releases which summarize the committee's activities and accomplishments in specific areas of investigation. Subjects include the New York City Jury Telephone Call-In System; publicly funded day care in New York City; sanitation enforcement needs; crime in housing projects; legislation to improve emergency medical services in New York City; child health care in Brooklyn; state prison capacity; structural problems of buses; and crime and arson in New York City.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Legislative Oversight and Investigation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Correspondence and subject files
Series Number
- A0003
Summary
- Chapter 958 of the Laws of 1939 created a temporary state commission to "study existing laws, both state and local, relating to finances of municipal subdivisions and organized public districts of the state and to codify, revise and make uniform state statutes relating thereto." This series consists of correspondence, reports, research materials, draft legislation, sponsor memoranda, indexes to bills, meeting minutes, press releases, and internal memoranda compiled by the commission in its work to create a consolidated local finance law.
Creator
- New York (State). Temporary State Commission for the Revision and Codification of the Laws Relating to Municipal Finance
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Long Island duck promotion program files
Series Number
- A4265
Summary
- The Long Island Duck Farmers' Cooperative appealed to the Department of Agriculture and Markets for assistance in increasing consumption of ducklings. Series consists of correspondence with retailers, industry representatives, government, allied industry, extension service, farm bureau, service organizations, media, and others. Also included are recipes, food pictures, syndicated articles, radio and television scripts, press kits, and news clippings.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Agriculture and Markets
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Senator James L. Seward archived websites
Series Number
- B2258
Summary
- This series consists of archival copies of the official website of Senator James L. Seward.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Senator (1987-2020 : James L. Seward)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Resolutions
Series Number
- A3085
Summary
- This series contains resolutions issued by the War Council (and its predecessor, the Council of Defense) as part of its mandate to coordinate war time needs. The resolutions cover a range of topics including: appointments to council offices; work of special committees; budget requests to the legislature; allocation of funds to various programs; civil defense issues (including National Guard matters); and changes to and rescindment of resolutions.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Investigation "D" ("Troopergate") records
Series Number
- B1989
Summary
- This series consists of redacted electronic copies of 8,562 pages of paper records that the Albany County District Attorney's Office created or gathered as it investigated whether Darren Dopp, Governor Eliot L. Spitzer's Director of Communications, had perjured himself or committed other crimes during a 2007 inquiry into the "Troopergate" scandal. Included are transcripts of interviews that investigators conducted with Executive Chamber staffers, as well as State Police records, some of which were retroactively created at the request of the Executive Chamber, and Executive Chamber records concerning various State officials' use of State-owned aircraft and vehicles.
Creator
- Albany County (N.Y.). Office of the District Attorney
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Monthly movement reports of children less than 17 years of age
Series Number
- B1751
Summary
- This series consists of monthly reports of children in Middletown State Hospital. The reports provide information on the total number of children; age of children; patients in residence at start and end of month; patients received (admissions, transfers, returns from convalescent care), and removed (discharges, deaths, transfers, placed in convalescent care); and children born in the hospital. Names of children are listed. Later forms include information on escapes; returns from escapes and patients reaching their 16th birthday. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Middletown State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted permanently in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records and the Personal Privacy Protection Law.Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the State Archives.
Title
- Letter books
Series Number
- B0329
Summary
- This series is comprised of 16 volumes of letter books that contain copies of correspondence created by the office of the Assistant Superintendent of Public Works, located in Rochester. The correspondence in these letter books is routine and administrative in nature, relating to construction, maintenance, and repair of the Erie Canal and Barge Canal. The time period of letter books coincides with the construction of the Barge Canal and much of the correspondence deals with this topic.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works. Assistant Superintendent's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Appointments of agents
Series Number
- J1151
Summary
- This series consists of appointments of agents, filed by solicitors, with the Clerk of the 2nd Chancery Circuit. Each appointment contains the name of the agent, date of appointment, place of residence, and the signature of the appointing solicitor. The rule of the court required every solicitor in chancery to appoint in writing an agent in every city or town where the Register, Assistant Register, and Chancery Circuit Clerks maintained offices.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Office of Mental Health Medical Records Office patient case files master negative microfilm
Series Number
- 19349
Summary
- Series consists of microfilm of patient case files maintained by the State's mental health facilities. A typical file may contain admission/commitment papers, legal documents, psychiatric evaluations, patient case summaries, correspondence, medical notes/observations, and discharge related documents.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Health. Medical Records Office
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- Unidentified maps, plans, and drawings of New York State canals
Series Number
- B1023
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Special franchise complaint and hearing files
Series Number
- 15215
Summary
- This series consists of files documenting formal objections against and resulting administrative review of special franchise property tax assessments. Files include formal objection and protest documents, applications for assessment reductions, hearing notices, correspondence, tax assessment records, State Public Service Commission case materials, engineering reports, contracts, and state and federal court records and briefs.
Creator
- New York (State). State Board of Equalization and Assessment
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Minutes of joint meetings of Superintendents of Asylums for the Insane
Series Number
- B1745
Summary
- This series documents the yearly meetings of the Joint Committee of Insane Asylum Superintendents. The minutes contain information pertaining to pending legislation, general administration, asylum policy, and patient treatment.
Creator
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Deputy Commissioner's subject files
Series Number
- 18731
Summary
- This series contains general subject files of the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Services and Community Development, Department of Social Services. The records include reports, memorandums, meeting notes, and correspondence.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Children and Family Services
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- War information publications file
Series Number
- A3091
Summary
- This series consists of printed annual and special reports, handbooks, pamphlets, posters and training materials issued by state and federal agencies involved in the home front effort. The publications provide civilians with information on numerous war related issues, and deal with a wide range of social and economic issues relating to war efforts underway. Subjects included are: civil defense; commerce; discrimination in employment; economics; education; emergency training; health and nutrition; job recruitment; labor; nursing; physical education; rationing; and war training.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Fort Orange settlement administrative records
Series Number
- A1876
Summary
- This series contains legal and administrative records that document the Dutch settlement of Fort Orange, which eventually became Albany, New York. The records, in Dutch, include real estate transactions, such as conveyances of property from one individual to another, conditions of sale, conditions of auction, and surrenders of claims; acknowledgments of debt; inventories of estates; warrants; powers of attorney; and pledges of security.
Creator
- New Netherland. Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Boards of Cooperative Educational Services correspondence and administrative files
Series Number
- B0473
Summary
- Included are requests for approval or alteration of shared educational programs and transmittals of applications for shared services and contracts. Requests by district superintendents of schools for establishment of BOCES contain the following information about each school district in the superintendency: town; county; district type; enrollments in grades K-6 and 7-12; number of teachers and assessed and true valuation. Occasional copies of BOCES budgets, memoranda concerning department visits to BOCES, and contracts are also included.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of School District Organization
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.