Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Abstract:
This series includes photographs, data cards, correspondence, a map and newspaper clippings giving information on marked and unmarked historic sites in the State by county and locality. The information was collected from local historians who responded to a 1922 request to catalog of historic sites..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Heritage Areas System Bureau
Abstract:
This series documents establishment of and provides information on the history and cultural resources of heritage areas. Each management plan includes description of area boundaries; inventory of cultural resources; goals and objectives statement; types of area uses; potential property acquisitions; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Heritage Areas System Bureau
Title:
Series:
21794
Dates:
1986-1991
Abstract:
This series consists of planning documents and correspondence related to the creation, development, and evolution of the New York State Heritage Areas Program and New York State Urban Cultural Parks Program. The purpose of these programs has been to develop, preserve, and promote the state's cultural .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Abstract:
This series documents area and site-specific markers erected along New York State roadways during the 1960s and thereafter by the State of New York and private organizations to commemorate events, persons, and places of historic interest. The files contain documentation of many, but not all, of the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of the State Historian
Abstract:
This series documents the results of a survey of existing historical markers administered by staff of the Office of the State Historian, which was begun in 1994 to re-inventory all the standing site markers, whether erected by the State of New York or not, and to upgrade the inventory as an electronic .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
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Series:
19309
Dates:
1989-2007
Abstract:
This series consists of photographs, architectural drawings and elevations, and occasionally, narrative descriptions of historic structures which are to be razed. The Bureau of Historic Preservation Field Services is responsible for ensuring that owners of structures that are on, or are eligible to .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Historic Preservation Field Services Bureau
Title:
Series:
19423
Dates:
1989-2023
Abstract:
This series consists of files created while reviewing state or federal projects which may affect so-called "cultural resources" (structures or archaeological sites) that are listed, or are eligible to be listed, on the national or state Register of Historic Places..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Office of State History
Abstract:
This series documents basic information for historical markers erected throughout the state; for markers that were never erected; and for markers that were later destroyed. The cards are pre-printed with typewritten or handwritten information added. Each card contains information about the location .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of Commerce
Abstract:
This map was published by the Department of Commerce to display scenic, economic, and historic sites of interest in the state. Entitled "New York The Empire State," it includes picture icons locating significant natural features, state parks, scenic areas, recreation/visitor and historic sites, museums, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). State Historian
Title:
Series:
B1772
Dates:
1899-1976
Abstract:
This series consists of booklets, pamphlets, and other ephemera on topics related primarily to New York State history, local history, historic sites and buildings, historic preservation, historiography, or other subjects of interest to the state historian. Topics include archaeology, church histories, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Abstract:
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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Governor. Assistant Secretary for Reports
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Series:
B2331
Dates:
1955-1958
Abstract:
This series consists of subject and correspondence files created by Assistant Secretary for Reports to Governor W. Averell Harriman, Daniel P. Moynihan. The records document the two major functions of the Assistant Secretary for Reports: to bring the State Government closer to the people and to keep .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York (State). Conservation Department
Title:
Series:
14297
Dates:
circa 1904-1953
Abstract:
The series consists of glass plate and film negatives and photographic prints compiled by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission, the Conservation Commission, and the Conservation Department. They illustrate activities of these predecessors of the Department of Environmental Conservation. The images document .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of Transportation. Graphic Arts Unit
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Series:
17672
Dates:
circa 1920-1980
Abstract:
These photographs, slides, and logs document the state transportation system, its structures, and state facilities created by the Department of Public Works (1923-1967) and its successor agency, the Department of Transportation. Images depict bridge and highway construction, canals repair and maintenance, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Abstract:
This series is composed of messages to the legislature from Governors Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller. There is also one message from Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson.The series consists of annual messages, which provide the listing of programs the Governor would like to institute that year; special .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Governor
Abstract:
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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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