Research

1

Creator:

New York State Thruway Authority. Department of Public Information

 

 

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This series includes film negatives and prints, grouped by Thruway Region, showing aerial, oblique views of Thruway interchanges and facilities. There are usually several views of each taken from different angles and distances.........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Transportation

 

 

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The series consists of annual reports of the Department of Transportation and its predecessor agency, the Department of Public Works. Reports for some years are missing. Early reports typically include both narrative and exhaustive statistical information on department activities; later reports tend .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

New York State Thruway Authority. Department of Public Information and Business Promotion

 

 

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This series consists of audio disks of programs about the Thruway. Programs include "Four Hundred Miles of Progress," A Documentary on the New York State Thruway Narrated by Alan Cole/Danny Fusco; and "Thruway Discussion, Citizen's Committee." Records are restricted subject to approval by conservation .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

4

Creator:

New York State Thruway Authority

 

 

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This series contains promotional films produced by either the Thruway Authority Motion Picture Unit or the Photographic Bureau within the Department of Public Information. The films cover subjects such as construction; opening ceremonies for different road sections and bridges; portrayals of the road's .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

New York State Thruway Authority. Department of Information and Commercial Affairs

 

 

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This series consists of newspaper articles, press releases, and editorials relating to all aspects of Thruway construction, openings, and operations. They were collected to monitor the effects of the public relations campaign mounted by the Thruway Authority and serve as a record of progress in construction .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York State Thruway Authority. Department of Information and Commercial Affairs

 

 

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This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, itineraries, reports, news releases, photographs, promotional brochures and pamphlets concerning public relations activities conducted by the Thruway Authority. The files mostly relate to opening ceremonies for each newly completed section of the Thruway, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York State Thruway Authority. Department of Public Information

 

 

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Series includes speeches, papers, and presentations by Thruway Authority public relations staff and Department of Public Works staff. These speeches were made before a variety of professional, community, and public interest groups and cover topics ranging from engineering problems to advocacy for the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

8

Creator:

Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Planning Division

 

 

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Many of the maps in this series either directly or tangentially relate to transportation functions. The maps pertain to numerous subjects including the state's canal system, coastal areas, community water systems, power pools, gasoline facilities, recreation, tourism, Adirondack Northway motorist assistance .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

9

Creator:

New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Office of Public Employment Practices and Representation

 

 

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This series consists of aerial photograph negatives and prints and corresponding photographic indexes depicting the state's roads and highway system. The aerial photography which forms the basis for the index was contracted by the Department of Public Works and its successor, the Department of Transportation, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

10

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New York (State). Department of Transportation. Facilities Design Division. Consultant Management Office

 

 

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The series consists of files maintained by the DOT's Consultant Management Office. Records include correspondence plans, and an environmental impact statement pertaining to design of highways by outside consulting firms. Projects include Freeman's Bridge, South Park Avenue bridges, Hamilton Avenue Bridge .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

11

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Transportation. Graphic Arts Unit

 

 

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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

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Department of Health. Commissioner's Office

 

 

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These subject files contain correspondence, memorandums, newspaper clippings, printed materials, reports, press releases, speeches, legislative and grant proposals, and hearing testimony. The files deal with such health related issues such as abortion, care for the disabled and handicapped, substance .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

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This series consists of audio and video tape cassettes, motion picture films, and reel-to-reel audio tapes documenting the activities of New York's governors. Included are tapes and films of Thomas E. Dewey, W. Averell Harriman, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Malcolm Wilson, Hugh L. Carey, and Mario M. Cuomo. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

14

Creator:

New York (State). Governor

 

 

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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