Research

 

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New York (State). Bureau for Municipal Police

 

 

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The series consists of surveys, studies, and reports on police services and operations prepared by the Bureau for Municipal Police at the request of chief municipal law enforcement authorities. Records include administrative surveys of police operations; consolidation studies to determine the feasibility .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Matteawan State Hospital

 

 

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This series records names of inmates who were admitted to and discharged from Matteawan State Hospital. In addition to inmate name and ward census, volume one notes admission and discharge dates and volume two records discharge date, from where he was admitted (ward or institution), the ward originally .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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The registers in this series contain handwritten entries of admissions, discharges, and case observations, among other critical patient information. Data includes name, date of admission, age, county and/or municipality of origin, date of commitment, maintenance, and staff remarks. The indexes in this .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of registers maintained by the State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital) for the purpose of recording patient admissions, discharges, and paroles. Information includes patient name, date of admission or discharge, and county of residence. Additional data varies by volume .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Eastern New York Reformatory

 

 

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The series consists of summary information on inmates received at the Eastern New York Reformatory. Most inmates were received from the New York State Reformatory at Elmira. Others were received from Auburn, Sing Sing or other State prisons or were returned to the reformatory for violating parole. Information .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Craig Colony (Sonyea, N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of admission registers documenting patients at Craig Colony for Epileptics (known after 1920 as simply Craig Colony). Each register provides admission number, name, admission and discharge dates, county, reimbursing or indigent, sex, age, occupation, age at onset, marital status, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of admission registers (also known as a "receiving blotter") of federally incarcerated individuals admitted to Sing Sing Prison. Entries include the person's name; aliases; date and place of conviction; offense; term of sentence; date of sentence; beginning and expiration date; .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series contains volumes providing summary information on incarcerated individuals sentenced to be executed. Information includes but is not limited to name and aliases of incarcerated individual; crime; term out by commutation, expiration, or pardon; place of birth, age, and occupation; marital .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York (State). Bureau of State Publicity

 

 

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This series consists of materials prepared for the Bureau of State Publicity by the Barlow Advertising Agency of Syracuse to promote nationwide attendance of the World's Fair of 1939-1940, specifically to encourage out-of-state travel to and from the fair through New York State rather than through Pennsylvania. .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York State War Council. Salvage Division

 

 

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This series reveals the activities of the city and county salvage committees and their coordination of local salvage efforts, particularly those concerning periodic waste paper and tin collection drives. Salvage Division correspondence includes letters of program descriptions, letters of support and .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York State Advisory Council on Vocational Education

 

 

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This series consists of reports and meeting minutes produced by the New York State Advisory Council on Vocational Education. Among there reports are annual reports to the Board of Regents, biennial reports to the United States Department of Education and Department of Labor, and reports on specific .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Planning Division

 

 

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These aerial photographs depict United States Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangles in Onondaga, Cayuga, Oswego, Broome, Cortland, and Tioga Counties. They include highways, railroads, and municipalities..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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Fairchild Aerial Surveys, inc. New York office

 

 

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This series consists of photographic negatives and positive prints of low-altitude, oblique aerial views of a variety of New York State sites, produced by the New York office of Fairchild Aerial Surveys (a commercial firm) during the years 1946-1949, 1951, and 1957. The reason the photography was done .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York State Science Service

 

 

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This series consists of aerial photographs, produced or acquired by various federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dating from the 1930s and 1940s. The photos were collected and used by the New York State Museum and State Science Service for the purpose of geological research .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York (State). Office of General Services. Design and Construction. Design Division

 

 

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This series consists of photographs and drawings of aerial views of New York State institutions. Most photographs document existing structures and planned construction. Some items include date of photography, flight height, camera used, lens focal length, and approximate index scale. Several photographs .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Office of Public Employment Practices and Representation

 

 

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This series consists of aerial photograph negatives and prints and corresponding photographic indexes depicting the state's roads and highway system. The aerial photography which forms the basis for the index was contracted by the Department of Public Works and its successor, the Department of Transportation, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York State University Construction Fund. Project Control and Initiation Unit

 

 

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These aerial photographs of State University of New York (SUNY) college and university campuses provided the Project Control and Initiation Unit with visual information necessary for capital plans and surveying. Taken at approximately five year intervals between 1962-1981, the photos are of individual .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York (State). Department of Transportation

 

 

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These aerial photographs of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, and Niagara counties created in 1938 by the Department of Transportation..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York (State). Board of Commissioners Constituted by Chapter 421, Laws of 1862

 

 

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This series consists of affidavits submitted by individuals to a board, created by legislation of 1862, to validate claims and determine the sums due to regiments or members of the militia for clothing and equipment lost or destroyed in the service of the United States since April 16, 1861. Claims were .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)

 

 

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This series consists of affidavits of defendants' bail. Each affidavit states that the bail is worth a specified sum of money after payment of the defendant's outstanding debts (the amount was required to be double the amount of debt or damages claimed by the plaintiff in the writ of capias ad respo.........

 

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New York State Archives