Research

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New York State School for the Blind

 

 

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This series consists of minutes of meetings and notes documenting other activities of the commission appointed to erect a building for the New York State Institution for the Blind. Planning topics include site selection, projected needs of students, visits to and interviews at other institutions, building .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

 

 

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The series consists of a one-volume "Comptroller's Tax Levy County Journal" which notes receipts and/or distributions of various funds, including direct state tax, school taxes, and special fees (e.g., stenographers tax, armory tax). Entries appear chronologically in a form of double-entry bookkeeping .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of a diary kept by an unidentified secretary in the Department of Public Works. Besides noting office attendance and departmental appointments, this volume includes clippings and other memoranda relating to the Canal Board, barges, and tugboats..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series contains the only existing volumes of the daily journal that were maintained by Sing Sing Prison's Principal Keeper. The journal provides a daily summary of information on the population of incarcerated individuals and the prison staff. Volume One covers September 11, 1917, to July 7, 1918, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of daily diaries kept by warden W. L. Denno of Sing Sing Prison documenting his official activities. Entries include inspections of site personnel and security protocol; details of visitors to the prison, including police investigators; attempted escapes; misconduct of incarcerated .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State Museum and Science Service

 

 

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This series consists of the daily desk journal of State Museum Director F.L.H. Merrill for the period October - November, 1890. The journal lists appointments, telephone calls received and notes on the calls, letters received or sent, and financial accounts..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum

 

 

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This series consists of account journals documenting expenses and payments for construction of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Information includes account name; what payment is for; amount paid; check number; and the corresponding ledger page or account number. Also included is an accounting journal .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of accounting journals of the State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital). Series includes a steward's journal listing payments made for supplies, food, services, labor, and routine maintenance; a vendor specific journal recording accounts payable by companies and providers; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of a variety of fiscal records created by Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center including a journal recording amounts and prices of farm produce consumed and produced and numbers of livestock on hand; a Treasurer's report with detailed listing of all expenditures .........

 

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New York State Archives