Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Adirondack Mountain Authority
Abstract:
The series consists of Adirondack Mountain Authority meeting files, correspondence, feasibility/construction estimates for various recreational projects, administrative files, and public relations contract files. In addition, there is a small quantity of meeting files of the superseded Whiteface Mountain .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Title:
Series:
A3242
Dates:
1924-1926
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of survey maps of lands acquired for John Boyd Thacher Park by the State Engineer and Surveyor..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Fairchild Aerial Surveys, inc. New York office
Title:
Series:
B1771
Dates:
approximately 1969
Abstract:
This series consists of an original tempera on illustration board portraying fish in the New York State Barge Canal. The top of the painting announces, "Something fishy is going on in the New York State Barge Canal." Seven fish are displayed underwater: bass, dogfish, carp, walleye, sunfish, perch, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Committee on Conservation and Recreation
Abstract:
These files were compiled under the leadership of Bernard C. Smith, one of the State's principal architects of major legislation in the areas of environmental protection, conservation, and recreation. Files include legislation and supporting memoranda of virtually all aspects of environmental law, including .........
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
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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). Hudson River Valley Commission
Title:
Series:
A1115
Dates:
1965-1979
Abstract:
The series consists of the correspondence and subject files of the Hudson River Valley Commission, which was set up by order of Governor Rockefeller in 1965 for the purpose of conducting a study of the scenic and cultural resources of the Hudson River Valley. The series includes project review logs, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Long Island State Park Commission
Title:
Series:
A3320
Dates:
1928-1954
Abstract:
This series documents the Long Island State Park Commission's responsibilities to oversee the state of parks and parkways on Long Island. Consisting primarily of maps and plans, the series also includes sketches of parks, recreational areas, and other facilities; conveyances for realignments of roads; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Adirondack Mountain Authority
Abstract:
The series consists primarily of legal and administrative files dealing with the two major recreational ski areas in Warren (Gore Mountain) and Essex (Whiteface Mountain) counties. The authority worked closely with the Conservation Department, and the records relate to the authority's continuation of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). St. Lawrence-Eastern Ontario Commission
Abstract:
The St. Lawrence-Eastern Ontario Commission had responsibilities for the preservation, protection, development, and use of the unique natural resources of the St. Lawrence River Valley and the lands adjacent to Lake Ontario's eastern shores, an area bordering St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Oswego, and Cayuga .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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