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Creator:

New York (State). Surveyor General

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of ten field books documenting surveys for proposed state roads. Two of the field books contain data on a state road from Lake Erie to the Hudson River that was proposed and surveyed, but never built. It is unknown whether the other field books refer to any roads that were actually .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Surveyor General

 

 

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Abstract:  

These survey maps were made for landholders, for partitioning of land, and for disposition of as yet unappropriated lands. Most maps depict areas of eastern upstate New York; some show lands bordering on or within Vermont. The maps generally provide: name, location, or number of the town, tract, patent, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Executive Department

 

 

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Abstract:  

These volumes contain waterpaint drawings of individual boundary monuments and the surrounding landscape marking New York's borders with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut. They were produced in conjunction with the State Engineer and Surveyor's triennial examination of previously established .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Commission to Investigate Provision for the Mentally Deficient

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains surveys completed by superintendents of training schools and other custodial institutions for the mentally deficient throughout the country. Information includes institutional information (name, staffing, operating costs); statistics on inmates (gender, classification of mental .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

45

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of statistical records of Auburn prisons' population of incarcerated individuals. Information may include total number: in prison; in prison at morning and in evening; received; discharged; lodgers; applications for treatment; treated; not treated; excused from labor; pardoned; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Office of General Services

 

 

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Abstract:  

The Onondaga Indian Reservation was established by treaty between the Onondaga Indians and the State of New York in 1788. After various tracts were sold by the Onondagas, they petitioned the state for a re-survey of their reservation. This series consists of field notes of a United State Department .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists primarily of inventory forms completed by Historical Records Survey workers for maps, photographs, and records surveyed in upstate county offices. Records include progress sheet for each county office; survey forms prepared by field workers; and historical sketches of county offices. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of surveys and appraisals of state-owned salt lands in preparation for the sale of those lands in the town of Geddes and the city of Syracuse. For each tract or lot information includes survey description providing metes and bounds and total acreage; appraised value of land and .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists primarily of inventory forms completed by Historical Records Survey workers for each series of records surveyed in town, village, and city offices in upstate counties. The files contain all or some of the following: handwritten copies of survey forms prepared by field workers; typewritten .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

50

Creator:

New York (State). Office of Mental Health

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains studies and analyses of all facility programs with recommendations, studies of process of service delivery, and outcome of treatment intervention. It includes records on: program planning, program surveying and audits of effectiveness, and plans for correction. Included are records .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

51

Creator:

New York (State). Secretary of State

 

 

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Abstract:  

These volumes include surveys of land in the State's New Military Tract granted to veterans for service during the Revolution. They generally provide date of the survey; surveyors' names; name of patent and/or a narrative description of the land surveyed; narrative description; acreage of each lot; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

52

Creator:

New York (State). Surveyor General

 

 

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Abstract:  

This single manuscript map shows the town of Brooklyn in the county of Kings as it was surveyed by Sidney Herbert and Robert Tolford in 1834. This survey was carried out at the request and under the direction of town supervisor Jeremiah Johnson. The survey was apparently done in anticipation of the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains a morning and evening census of inmates. Information includes number out, in punishment and observation cells, in hospital, halls, or corridors. Later entries record daily population of first, second, third, and fourth offenders, both white and "colored." Also included are notes .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

54

Creator:

Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of a statistical register of the Clinton Prison inmate population for each day of the month. Daily entries include total count of prisoners and number of inmates discharged, received, paroled, at court, or on funeral or sick visit. Totals and averages for each month are entered .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

55

Creator:

New York (State). Governor (1921-1922 : Miller)

 

 

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Legislation of 1921 established a Board of Estimate and Control and directed it to conduct a survey of all state departments, offices, and institutions to determine where waste and duplication of effort existed. The Board was then to recommend improvements to each agency or recommend to the legislature .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of two subseries containing field workers' forms describing churches and church records, and cards containing condensed versions of the information on the forms..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

57

Creator:

Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains forms documenting buildings and rooms (including state offices in Albany) used to store state and local government records in the late 1930s. Many privately owned buildings, including private residences and business establishments, were surveyed if the premises were used to store .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

58

Creator:

Albion State Training School (Albion, N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of daily summary statistical information of inmates entering, leaving, and housed at Albion State Training School. Information includes date; name and case number of inmates received, discharged, or paroled; total number in facility and in various units (for example, hospital, segregation); .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

59

Creator:

New York (State). Division of Lands and Forests

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series is comprised of land records (survey notes, copies of deeds, maps, quit claims, and indentures) created or accumulated by William Cockburn, his sons William Jr. and James, and his grandson Walter A. Cockburn, and maintained by the Division of Lands and Forests. The series contains three .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of surveys and apparently unpublished studies conducted under W.P.A. sponsorship. These studies are on many subjects, but tend to focus on real estate values, land use, and population in communities in New York. Examples include police arrest survey; social and economic survey of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives