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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series contains files pertaining to federal archives and records management programs during the 1940s. They were probably compiled for an ill-fated postwar proposal to establish a State Archives program..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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These files document the placement, with State financial aid, of hundreds of bronze tablets commemorating sites of historical significance in the colonial, revolutionary, or state formative periods. The files include financial application, historical importance of site, structure, person, or event commemorated .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series contains correspondence, ephemera, reports, newspaper articles, questionnaires, and financial records of statewide observances related to the 150th anniversary of the American Revolution and Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779. Other historical observances documented include the Albany Tercentenary; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series contains the state historian's copies of calendars and minutes of meetings of the Council and its planning committee. The state historian received copies because the Council's authority included state historic sites. These calendars and minutes contain information on: budget proposals for .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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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; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, meeting agenda, minutes, clippings, press releases, and promotional literature concerning historical celebrations in which the Division of Archives and History participated. Includes Fort Ticonderoga Bicentennial (1955); East Greenbush Centennial .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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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

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series contains correspondence, background reports (including drafts), notes, clippings, printed programs, and articles concerning efforts to preserve Martin Van Buren's Kinderhook home, Lindenwald, as a public historic site. The site was not acquired by the state, but eventually was purchased .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

10

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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Copies of speeches, radio talks, commencement and commemorative addresses given by State Historian Arthur Pound. The subjects of these speeches include state and local history, the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project, wartime morale, and farm-related topics discussed on the "Farm .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series consists of historic preservation photographs assembled by the New York State Division of Archives and History, evidently for the purpose of using them in a publication. The photographs depict public buildings, cultural institutions, state parks, bridges, schools, businesses, urban areas, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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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, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series contains personal information, service data, newspaper clippings, and photographs of New York State veterans of World War I. Some accounts of home front activities in the state are also included. The series contains a small amount of material documenting the manner in which the State Education .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series consists predominantly of brief biographical sketches of prominent individuals in communities across New York State. A few scattered sketches pertain to leading institutions and businesses. The sketches are not limited to famous individuals, but rather document communities much more broadly. .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series includes photographs, data cards, correspondence, a map and newspaper clippings giving information on marked and unmarked historic sites in the State by county and locality. The information was collected from local historians who responded to a 1922 request to catalog of historic sites..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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The commissioner of education requested all boards of education and school administrators to complete an inventory of their official records. School districts completed forms recording data on the extent and location of: meeting minutes of trustees or boards of education; enrollment, attendance, grade, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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These files include correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, clippings, legislative bills, and photographs concerning the participation of New York State residents in World War I. Also included are war histories from other states. The files were collected by State Historian, James Sullivan, in response .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series contains correspondence, unpublished historical articles, notes, clippings, photographs, posters, and a few original or photostatic copies of historical documents collected by the State Historian in the course of research on historical topics. The subjects of these files vary widely, but .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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This series consists of transcripts and translations of Dutch colonial manuscripts created and/or edited by A.J.F. Van Laer..........

 

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New York State Archives