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Displaying 6074 Finding Aids
Title
- Handbooks listing educational institutions and certification regulations
Series Number
- B1619
Summary
- The series consists primarily of State Education Department handbooks containing lists of component institutions and organizations, namely public and private educational institutions with approved courses of study, or programs that have been incorporated or chartered by the department. Such institutions include colleges and universities; normal schools, (teacher) training schools and classes; academies; business schools; nursing schools; libraries; and historical societies. In addition, the series contains annual handbooks specifying the regulations relating to the certification of schoolteachers.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register's statement of mortgage foreclosures
Series Number
- J2276
Summary
- This series consists of Register's statements on mortgage foreclosure cases handled by the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor respectively. Each contains totals of bills filed for mortgage foreclosure, decrees issued for sale of mortgaged premises, and sales conducted. Also included is an alphabetical case list enumerating the complainant, defendant, costs allowed by the court and the decree amount awarded. Entries for cases in which a sale actually took place include the property's sale amount and the total costs in the case.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery. Chancery Fund
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Indenture agreements
Series Number
- A1902
Summary
- This series consists of contractual agreements between reformatory managers, inmates, and employers (or "masters") to bind out inmates for vocational training until the age of twenty-one. In return for the inmate's labor, the master agreed to provide the inmate with clothing, room and board, medical care, and educational and vocational training. Each form includes inmate's name and age; master's name; residence; and type of vocational training, e.g. farming, shoemaking, chair making, house painting, carpentry, and brush making. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Western House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents (Rochester, N.Y.)
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
- Minutes and report of investigation of New York City Municipal Civil Service Commission's practices
Series Number
- B0507
Summary
- This series contains information on New York City civil service practices, its violations of Civil Service law and rules; and the city's justification of irregular civil service practices. The hearing transcripts, reports and brief document the State Civil Service Commission's investigation of the New York City Civil Service Commission. Most information consists of "minutes" of testimony and exhibits taken by the State Commission during its investigation. Also included is the final report to the Legislature and the city's reply.
Creator
- New York (State). Civil Service Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York Colony Court of Assizes calendar of the proceedings of the Court of Assizes
Series Number
- B2310
Summary
- This series consists of a typescript calendar of cases presented to the Court of Assizes, compiled sometime before 1911 by A. J. F. Van Laer, archivist of the New York State Library. Entries generally contain the date, parties to the case, nature of the case, allegations, court proceedings, disposition of the case, and page number on which the case appears in the minutes of the Court of Assizes (series A0271).
Creator
- New York (Colony). Court of Assizes
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Commercial and general liability insurance investigation files
Series Number
- B2476
Summary
- This series contains reports and exhibits derived from meetings held by investigators with insurance company officials; agency investigators' and attorneys' notes; correspondence; transcripts; and related records documenting the Insurance Department's investigation into the liability insurance crisis in 1986.
Creator
- New York (State). Insurance Department. Office of Counsel
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Writers' Program working files for the Historical Album of New York State
Series Number
- 11891
Summary
- This series contains completed forms, control sheets, and some correspondence collected for preparation of a Historical Album of New York State. The album was intended to contain data and photographs of every significant historic site in the state and data on important New York natives and residents. The project was a cooperative effort between the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) New York State Writers' Project and the Division of Archives and History.
Creator
- Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Education Department Office of Vocational Rehabilitation closed case reports and reviews
Series Number
- 11649
Summary
- This series constitutes a sample of the Closed Case Reports and Reviews completed by State Education Department personnel when vocational rehabilitation cases were closed. Forms provide summary data about services provided, results achieved, and costs to the Department in each case. Sampling was completed by the State Archives and is intended to include all files from each year ending in 0 or 5, but for some sample years all or some of the files are missing.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Access Restrictions
- Restricted by Education Law section 1007; confidential and privileged in accord with Civil Practice Law and Rules section 4504. Records will be disclosed only with personal names and identifiers redacted.
Title
- Register of expenditures for Surveyor General and State Engineer and Surveyor's Offices
Series Number
- B0261
Summary
- This series consists of expenditures of Surveyor General and State Engineer and Surveyor's Offices kept for the state's internal auditing needs. Expenses include newspaper advertisements of public land sales, printing and binding for other than advertising, surveying and appraising of land; employment of clerks and amount of certificate of payment and postage.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Highway construction and maintenance payment journal
Series Number
- B0275
Summary
- This series consists of a record of payments for highway construction, maintenance, engineering, and related expenses. Information includes county; estimate number; road number; petition number; amount paid from state fund, county fund, and federal aid; and amount to be charged on account for construction, engineering, advertising, or miscellaneous expenses. The requisition number; date and who was paid are sometimes included.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Highways
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Annual reports
Series Number
- B2462
Summary
- This series consists of annual reports of the Department of Correctional Services describing functions, activities, and events of the past year. Reports typically include summaries of departmental organization and responsibilities; departmental progress and changes (population trends, custody, discipline); institutional population and financial tables; divisions reports (criminal identification, records and statistics, industries, education, probation, and children's court cases); and summary recommendations. Later volumes contain photographs of staff, inmates, and facilities.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Executive Assistant to the Governor correspondence files
Series Number
- B2304
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence files of Governor W. Averell Harriman's Executive Assistant Charles Van Devander, who served as Harriman's chief liaison with the press. The series includes both incoming and outgoing personal and official correspondence.
Creator
- New York (State). Executive Assistant to the Governor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York City school decentralization files
Series Number
- 14043
Summary
- In 1967, the commissioner of education initiated a study of decentralization plans by the director of the Center on Innovation in Education. These files resulted from that study and from the Board of Regents' review of the New York City Board of Education's plan for decentralization, proposed in 1969. The files include memoranda, reports, notes of meetings, and press releases concerning the development of a decentralization policy by the Regents and commissioner.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Center on Innovation in Education
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- B0513
Summary
- This series consists of subject and correspondence files of the first and second Personnel Council. Original Council records include reports and memoranda of committees and sub-committees; training material; publications; clippings; correspondence with union officials; survey results; special studies and complaint and grievance appeals hearings. Second Council files include publications, minutes, correspondence and newsletters, committee records, and planning documents. They discuss administrative matters, labor relations, civil service concerns, and personnel management.
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
- Department of Environmental Conservation departmental legislative proposals
Series Number
- 16867
Summary
- This series consists of records pertaining to formulation of departmental legislation. Record types include legislative proposals; legislative initiation forms; bills; documents tracking progress of bills; sponsor memorandums; comments from other agencies; position statements; and correspondence.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation. Legislative and Federal Liaison Office. Office of General Counsel
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Subject card indexes to instructional photographic images
Series Number
- A3132
Summary
- These 18,000 cards consist of two subseries, each indexing one subseries of Series A3045, Instructional Lantern Slides: 1) Catalog of images for use in educational slide sets, arranged by alpha-numeric catalog number, and 2) Subject index to unclassified images, in three alphabetically arranged sections: general (subject or country), major countries or continents, and U.S. states.
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
- Education Department Commissioner Lewis A. Wilson subject files
Series Number
- W0103
Summary
- The series includes correspondence, reports, meeting materials, press releases, and draft legislation related to Lewis A. Wilson's tenure as commissioner, 1950-1955. Records document the Education Department's role in broader social and political issues, including civil defense and military preparedness; anticommunism and moral education; proposed creation of centralized school districts in rural areas; and promotion of the educational use of television.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Commissioner Lewis A. Wilson
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
- Minutes of commissioners of highways of Town of Clarksville
Series Number
- A1043
Summary
- Highway commissioners of each town are authorized to establish road districts for the upkeep of highways by the labor of the inhabitants. This series contains minutes of the Commissioners of Highways of Clarksville, Cattaraugus County, dividing the town into eleven road districts in 1836, and the establishment of road district no. 14 in 1840.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Comptroller's Office statements of tolls on canal passenger boats
Series Number
- A1057
Summary
- These chronological lists of passengers were submitted monthly by masters of boats traveling the Erie Canal. Required for taxation purposes, the lists provide name of boat; date of travel; names of passengers; and distance traveled. The card index indicates names of boats in chronological and alphabetical order.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- Restricted due to fragility. Use with supervision of archivist.
Title
- Copake-Taconic Hills Central School District (N.Y.) records
Series Number
- A4649
Summary
- Microfilmed records include Roeliff Jansen Central School District Board of Education meeting minutes, annual budgets, and tax assessment rolls; Ockawamick Central School District annual budgets, Board of Education meeting minutes, and tax assessment rolls; and Taconic Hills Central School District annual budgets, Board of Education voting results, annual and special meeting files of the Board of Education, tax assessment rolls, and Board of Education meeting minutes.
Creator
- Copake-Taconic Hills Central School District (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.