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Displaying 6074 Finding Aids
Title
- Drafts for tax assessment rolls of real and personal estates in Clinton County (N.Y.)
Series Number
- B1805
Summary
- This series consists of drafts of town assessment rolls prepared for county treasurers by tax assessors. Information includes name of possessor of real or personal property; description of real estate (acreage, farm, mill, tannery, etc.); value of real estate; value of personal estate; and total assessed value. Also included is a printed 1798 set of instructions to assistant assessors from United States Government relating to federal taxes.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Highland (N.Y.) tax assessment rolls and town board meeting minutes
Series Number
- A4666
Creator
- Highland (N.Y. : Town)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Widow's pension legislation research files
Series Number
- A3109
Summary
- The series consists of legislative summaries, reports, speeches, conference papers, articles, newspaper clippings, and other material gathered by the commission to aid its investigation into the issue of providing pension relief to mothers. Records include sample legislation and testimony from other states, sample forms and draft reports. Also included is a chart of information on mothers' pension and allied laws in other states. Included is information on states that proposed laws and restrictions and methods used by states to administer state aid.
Creator
- New York (State). Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Division of Veterans' Affairs Executive Office subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- 20450
Summary
- The series consists of a common subject and correspondence file used by the agency director and counsel. The files document the agency's interaction with public officials, veterans and their families, veterans organizations, and the general public in an effort to coordinate and improve services to New York's veterans and active duty service members. Records consist of correspondence, memorandums, reports, news clippings, and related records.
Creator
- New York (State). Division of Veterans' Affairs
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Administrative correspondence files
Series Number
- A4100
Summary
- This series consists mainly of incoming correspondence directed or forwarded to the Inspector General's Office. The files are routine in nature and deal with such topics as the construction and repair of state armories, inspection of troops at depots and recruiting stations and review of various claims. These records are only a small part of this office's correspondence files; there are many gaps.
Creator
- New York (State). Inspector General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Canal engineer's field notes for state canals
Series Number
- A1078
Summary
- This series consists of field notes from surveys made for the Canal Commissioners (Revised Statutes 1827), which directed that the Commissioners have maps and field notes made for all canals constructed by the state. Field notes in this series were submitted by the Canal Commissioners to the Canal Board for approval, and upon approval were certified by the commissioners and filed in the Comptroller's Office. The Erie, Chenango, Chemung, Crooked Lake, Cayuga and Seneca, and Oswego canals are covered.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts submitted by local officials detailing monies raised and expended and men furnished during the Civil War
Series Number
- A4114
Summary
- This series consists of various types of printed forms, reports, incoming correspondence, lists of men who were mustered into the service of the United States government, and an assortment of printed material submitted by local officials to the Bureau of Military Statistics between 1863 and 1868. The records were initially compiled pursuant to Chapter 113, Laws of 1863 which required the Bureau of Military Statistics, in addition to other duties, to "collect and preserve...an account of the aid afforded by the several towns and counties of this state." In 1865 (Chapter 690), the Legislature further specified the type of information which the bureau was to collect.
Creator
- New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Lake Grove village board minutes, planning board minutes, and board of appeals minutes
Series Number
- A4672
Creator
- Lake Grove (N.Y. : Village)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Senate Committee on Civil Service comparative appraisals of state civil service positions
Series Number
- 14087
Summary
- This series consists of two bound volumes of "appraisal sheets" used by the Senate Committee on Civil Service in its 1915 investigation of the state civil service system. These pre-printed forms bear the title "Preliminary Report: Comparative Appraisals" and contain side-by-side columns for comparison of existing position/salary schedules with classifications of work done according to standard specifications. Forms are arranged by department or other major administrative division.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Committee on Civil Service
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York City subway contract drawings and plans
Series Number
- A0414
Summary
- The series consists of sets of contract drawings of New York City subway system routes and facilities in Brooklyn from 1907 and 1908. Each set includes several portfolios of drawings, plans, maps, details, and sectional drawings. They are arranged chronologically by year and therein by route number and alphanumeric contract drawing number.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Service Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Attica class action litigation files
Series Number
- B1811
Summary
- This series consists of records resulting from a 1974 class action suit filed against state officials or their estate by inmate survivors of the 1971 Attica uprising. The records were created by private counsel hired by the state to defend state officials. Types of records include trial transcripts; complaints; reports of other investigations; interviews; testimonies; depositions; summaries; pleadings; briefs; photographs; and attorney work notes. Records are partially restricted.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Law
Access Restrictions
- Medical files are restricted to protect personal privacy.
- B1811-10: Restricted; contains confidential interview notes and grand jury minutes.
- B1811-13: Portions of these records are exempt from disclosure under the New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL, Public Officers Law Art. 6).
Title
- Governor public information photographs
Series Number
- 13703
Summary
- These photographic images were used as public relations vehicles for New York's governors. The photographs helped to publicize their official, and occasionally unofficial, activities. Most of the images reveal the routine activities that the governors' photographers were assigned to photograph. Records tend to be arranged by gubernatorial administration for the following governors: Thomas E. Dewey, W. Averell Harriman, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Malcolm Wilson, Hugh L. Carey, Mario M. Cuomo, and Eliot Spitzer.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- U.S. Deposit Fund mortgage payment ledger
Series Number
- B1622
Summary
- The U.S. Deposit Fund was established to make surplus monies from the U.S. Treasury available to states as loans for improved real estate. This series consists of a ledger recording United States Deposit Fund mortgage payments. Entries include mortgage number; original mortgagor; date; unpaid principal; name and address of present owner; and dates payments were made on principal and interest.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Audit and Control
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Testator index to wills recorded in New York City
Series Number
- A4699
Summary
- This microfilm series is an index to testators in State Archives series J0043-92, Record of Wills and Probates, 1665-1787, and in series 1043-92, Record of Wills and Probates, 1787-1879 (pre-1851 wills only). The index lists testators (makers of wills) in alphabetical order by surname, then by given name. The index provides name, date when will was proved, and book and page number.
Creator
- Sawyer, Ray Cowen,1895-
Access Restrictions
- Restricted; microfilm is not available for inter-library loan or reproduction for any purpose.
Title
- Accounts of Canal Commissioners for expenditures on branch canals
Series Number
- A1087
Summary
- Included are accounts for the following canals: Oswego, Genesee Valley, Black River, Chenango, Cayuga and Seneca, Chemung and Crooked Lake, as well as the Oneida River Improvement. Each entry provides name of payee; after date; location or type of work performed; and amount due.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts and returns of canal tolls by railroads
Series Number
- A1093
Summary
- The State Canal Department collected tolls on railroad freight on lines parallel to canals until 1851, when the tolls were abolished. This series consists of bound documents relating to payment of canal tolls by railroads in New York State.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Canal Department
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- School district collective bargaining files
Series Number
- 15400
Summary
- This series consist predominantly of correspondence between the State Education Department Office of School District Employer-Employee Relations and school or BOCES superintendents regarding the filing of negotiated contract agreements with the State Education Department. Also included are correspondence, interdepartmental memoranda, and public petitions regarding labor disputes including classroom teachers strikes.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Office of School District Employer-Employee Relations
Access Restrictions
- Access to portions of this series, including transcripts of a fact-finding proceeding housed in Box 6, is restricted in accordance with the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law.
Title
- Annual reports
Series Number
- B2459
Summary
- This series consists of an annual report submitted to the governor by the State Board of Health. Subjects include sewage systems; water supplies; water pollution sources; instructions to local boards of health; investigation of food coloring; investigations of sanitary conditions at summer resorts; vital statistics recording; sanitary conditions of the State including information on outbreaks of small pox, influenza, typhoid fever, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, and acute respiratory diseases; and an extensive report by the Tuberculosis Committee.
Creator
- New York (State). Board of Health
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- "Speech files" of Angela Paresi
Series Number
- B1636
Summary
- Although labeled as "speech files" of Angela Paresi, chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board from 1955-1961, the series contains no copies of speeches. The files actually consist of press releases, issued mainly by Governor Averell Harriman and the Department of Labor; scattered issues of newsletters of the State University of New York; and black and white photographic prints of Paresi, Robert Wagner, and members of the Workmen's Compensation Board. The association of these files with Paresi's speechmaking is unknown.
Creator
- New York (State). Workmen's Compensation Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Department of Civil Service Personnel Council meeting minutes
Series Number
- 14078
Summary
- This series consists of meeting minutes of the Personnel Council and its Executive Committee. Minutes include date, time, place, attendees' names, and description of business conducted. Subjects addressed include general personnel policies and problems, plans for monthly meetings, committee reports, studies, and individual employee problems and grievances.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Personnel Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.