New York State Archives Index to Conservation Department Photographic Prints and Negatives

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Overview of the Records

Repository
New York State Archives
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Summary
Grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed State Archives staff to undertake a preservation project by which duplicate negatives and contact prints were created for most of the negatives in Series 14297. This series consists of 5,206 positive contact prints made from duplicate negatives in Series 14297, Conservation Department Photographic Prints and Negatives, and functions as a visual index to that series.
Title
Index to Conservation Dept. Photographic Prints and Negatives
Quantity
2 cubic feet; (circa 430 contact sheets)
Inclusive Dates
Series Number
B1786
Scope and Content Note

This series consists of 5,206 positive contact prints made from duplicate negatives from series 14297, Conservation Dept. Photographic Prints and Negatives and functions as a visual index to that series. The index was created as a result of a grant received by the State Archives in approximately 1996 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This NEH grant allowed State Archives staff to undertake a preservation project by which duplicate negatives and contact prints were created for most of the negatives in series 14297. This index consists of numbered positive contact prints made from those duplicate negatives.

14297Series 14297, New York State Conservation Department Photographic Prints and Negatives, [circa 1904-1949], is indexed by this series.

Processing Information

This series was originally accessioned as an accretion to Series 14297 in 1996. It was reaccessioned as B1786 in September of 2001.

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