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New York State War Council. Salvage Division

 

 

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This series contains releases from the Salvage Division to city and county salvage committees intended to inform and motivate volunteers, with sections devoted to specific items such as waste fat, tin, paper, and scrap metal. Included are collection figures, directions, quotations, national program .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State War Council. Salvage Division

 

 

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This series reveals how the Salvage Division coordinated the activities of various businesses, agencies, publicity organizations, schools, waste processors and dealers, and individuals involved in salvage efforts across the State. Included are: letters detailing policies and procedures and describing .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State War Council. Office of Physical Fitness

 

 

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This series contains correspondence, memoranda, press releases, manuscripts, and reports documenting the supervisory role of Francis J. Moench, the deputy director of the Office of Physical Fitness. Working in conjunction with Director Hiram A. Jones, Moench oversaw field representatives and worked .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection

 

 

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This series contains material exchanged between the Office of Civilian Protection and other states' civil defense organizations in order to share information on operations, regulations, and issues such as blackouts and airplane spotting. A collection of civil defense newspapers from various states constitutes .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Department of Social Welfare

 

 

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This series contains correspondence, memoranda, and pamphlets detailing the work of War Transportation Committee director, R. C. Georger, in implementing, supervising, and coordinating the committee's work to promote the conservation of transportation resources. The series primarily contains correspondence .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State War Council. War Transportation Committee

 

 

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This series contains correspondence, memoranda, pamphlets, reports, and brochures pertaining to the War Transportation Committee (WTC) program and its efforts to conserve transportation resources. Topics include: school bus use limits; charter bus use; fuel allocation; automobile conservation hints; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Division of Industrial Hygiene

 

 

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This series contains information about diseases contracted by workers at industrial sites, organized by type or cause of disease. Medical histories list occupations; symptoms; medical test results and diagnosis. Other records include lists of industrial sites with statistical analyses of medical problems; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Department of Commerce

 

 

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This series contains documents in support of policy discussions to revive a project for an American canal from Lake Ontario to the Niagara River and Lake Erie. Information was needed to establish economic justification and/or engineering feasibility of constructing/improving the canal, and estimates .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Board of Nursing

 

 

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This series consists of handbooks published annually by the State Education Department documenting its regulation of the nursing profession. Handbooks generally contain statutory requirements; regulations, and information on examinations, education and certification. Some contain a list of Nursing Board .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Board of Nursing

 

 

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This series consists of bulletins (pamphlets) published by several agencies related to the training of nurses. Topics include Public Health Law on nursing topics; nursing in state institutions; schools for trained attendants; violations of Public Health Law; and the Nursing Advisory Council. Also included .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Westfield State Farm

 

 

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The series consists of scattered items from unidentified, unrelated files of the clinic at Westfield State Farm. Included are an inventory of the dental clinic (March 1958); memoranda concerning three security matters: visitation of an inmate, loose drugs found in the laboratory, and theft from the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Bureau of Wildlife

 

 

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This series consists of published Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) guides pertaining to the regulation of small and big game hunting; fishing; and trapping. Also included is a small collection of fiscal report pamphlets from the Conservation Fund Advisory Council and its successor, the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Governor's Commission on the Future of Horse Racing in New York State

 

 

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The series consists of records of the "Delafield Commission" appointed to study the impact of off-track betting, legalized gambling, and other legislative regulatory or financial measures on the horse racing industry. Records include correspondence; public hearing testimony; opinion letters; public .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State Defense Council

 

 

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This series consists primarily of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence - along with smaller amounts of incoming original letters - sent among the New York State Defense Council and other state agencies associated with emergency war efforts, notably the Adjutant General's office, Department of Health, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State War Council. Office of War Training

 

 

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To help to conserve resources for the war effort, the Office of War Training implemented a program aimed at educating truck and bus drivers through trucking company managers. This series contains correspondence, pamphlets, and instructors' manuals documenting the Office's administration of this program .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection

 

 

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This series documents the Office of Civilian Protection's (OCP) efforts to establish and monitor adequate civil defense measures for New York State. The series includes correspondence with local war councils documenting personnel, activities, and equipment inventory; monthly reports from deputy directors .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). State Historian

 

 

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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

 

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New York (State). Counsel to the Governor

 

 

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This series consists of records, including subject and personnel files, maintained by various staff members of the Counsel to the Governor's office. Other types of records include news clippings, correspondence, invitations, memorandums, press releases, and reports. Records in the series relate to subjects .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office

 

 

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These records document mandated and optional training courses for employees that were developed by staff, the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and expert vendors..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Office of Public Health

 

 

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This series contains agendas, bulletins, news clippings, correspondence, guidelines, memorandums, notes, pamphlets, press releases, reports, and speeches generated by the Office of Public Health. Topics include the onset of the AIDS epidemic; environmental toxicology; maternal and child health; New .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives