Finding Aid Search Results
41
Creator:
New York State Library
Title:
Series:
13911
Dates:
1914
Abstract:
This unpublished manuscript, prepared by Edward T. Corwin, was sent to the State Library. It contains an alphabetical list of clergy, their denomination, location, and birth and death dates; a citation to a biographical sketch; and a list of churches alphabetically by community noting their denomination, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
42
Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Title:
Series:
13914
Dates:
1921
Abstract:
This series contains notes, memorandums, and correspondence of the state historian regarding this purchase. Included are lists of colonial council minutes that survived the 1911 State Capitol fire, lists of similar minutes on file in the British Public Record Office (PRO), and list of photostats proposed .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
43
Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Abstract:
These files are correspondence, with occasional memoranda, notes, transcripts of historical documents, and papers on historical topics. Correspondence primarily concerns questions received by the State Historian on a variety of topics relating to New York history. Sample subject headings include: Bibliographies; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
44
Creator:
New York State Committee on Sentencing Guidelines
Title:
Series:
14508
Dates:
1983-1986
Abstract:
These files contain correspondence, publications, draft or working documents, unpublished reports, and related material. Correspondence concerns the solicitation of input to the Committee's work, requests for information from the committee, comments on the committee's reports and work, and requests .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
45
Creator:
New York (State). Permanent Commission on Public Employee Pension and Retirement Systems
Title:
Series:
17636
Dates:
1972-1992
Abstract:
The Permanent Commission on Public Employee Pension and Retirement Systems studies and makes recommendations about all aspects of public employee retirement programs including benefits, funding, cost, and administration. This series consists of subject and correspondence files; consultants' reports; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
46
Creator:
New York (State). Moreland Act Commission on the Returnable Container Act
Title:
Series:
19683
Dates:
1989-1990
Abstract:
The commission was charged with investigating and determining how well the Returnable Container Act was working; the adequacy of state enforcement; the costs of compliance; whether unclaimed deposits should be retained by industries or paid to the state; and recommendations for improvement. This series .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
47
Creator:
New York State Archives. Archives Partnership Trust
Abstract:
Since 1996, the Archives Partnership Trust has sponsored the annual Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program. This program supports advanced work in New York State history, government, or public policy by covering research expenses for visiting scholars using records at the State Archives. This series .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
48
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
49
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
50
Creator:
New York (State). Division of History
Abstract:
This typescript, compiled by the State historian, contains a biography of Keith, highlighting his activities as aide-de-camp and deputy adjutant general to Major General William Heath, 1776-1778. Also included are extracts and transcripts of letters to and from Keith compiled by the State historian .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
51
Creator:
New York State Museum of Natural History
Title:
Series:
A0128
Dates:
1832-1896
Abstract:
The memorial album contains diplomas, honorary degrees, and certificates of election to scientific and natural history societies awarded to James Hall former director of in the State Museum. Included are the Governor's proclamation designating Hall as State Geologist and Paleontologist indefinitely .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
52
Creator:
New York (State). State Historian
Title:
Series:
A0131
Dates:
1763-1818
Abstract:
This proposed publication, prepared by the State historian, consists of transcripts of correspondence and a few related documents of Revolutionary War Colonel Peter Gansevoort, commander of the Third New York Line regiment. Included are chronological and alphabetical lists of Gansevoort documents..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
53
Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Abstract:
This series contains teaching and study notes, reading lists, examination questions, outlines and drafts of papers, a few graded examinations, and some correspondence of James Sullivan prior to his appointment as State Historian in 1916. Courses include American, European, economic, constitutional, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
54
Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Title:
Series:
A0245
Dates:
1936-1963
Abstract:
This series contains film negatives and photographic prints of historic sites, buildings, bridges, statues, monuments, and a few persons of statewide or local significance. It apparently contains interfiled photographs resulting from several projects to document historic sites in New York State. The .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
55
Creator:
New York (State). State Historian
Abstract:
This series consists of transcriptions of official reports, correspondence, and orders primarily relating to the volunteer artillery, cavalry, and engineer regiments furnished by New York during the Civil War. Most of these records were transcribed from the multi-volume U.S. War Department publication, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
56
Creator:
New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum
Title:
Series:
A0260
Dates:
1901-1913
Abstract:
Incoming correspondence to John M. Clarke, State Museum director and State Geologist (1904-1925), and State Paleontologist (1898-1925). Topics include Clarke's publication of a monograph on early Devonic history, his receipt of the Hayden Memorial Gold Medal, and his research of the geology and paleontology .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
57
Creator:
New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum
Abstract:
Most of the field notes in this series consist of observations of birds made in New York and New England. Notes include information on bird species, location where observed, bird activities, and weather conditions. Other volumes contain notes on plant species observed during field trips. Two volumes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
58
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene
Abstract:
This series contains final and working drafts, research notes, and correspondence relating to the compilation of "The History of the State's Care of the Mentally Ill." There are also abstracts of laws pertaining to the state's concern for the mentally ill and abstracts of historical articles from Psychiatric .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
59
Creator:
New York (State). Temporary Commission on the Need for a State University
Title:
Series:
A3036
Dates:
1946-1948
Abstract:
The Temporary Commission on the Need for a State University created these files in producing "Inequality of Opportunity in Higher Education: A Study of Minority Group and Related Barriers to College Admission." The study's main subject was discrimination against Jews and African Americans in admission .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
60
Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Assistant Commissioner for Research
Title:
Series:
A3044
Dates:
1945-1948
Abstract:
This series consists of statistical and other information abstracted from school district trustees' reports or school district commissioner's reports. The abstracts generally concern smaller schools, usually located in rural areas of the state. Information includes statistical reports including school .........
Repository:
New York State Archives