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New York State Education Department Division of Vocational and Extension Education Temporary Emergency Relief Administration Projects Payroll Records


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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:
This series consist of payroll records from Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA) projects in upstate New York as well as from the Emergency Nursery School Project and part-time Education Department clerical staff hired on TERA funds to work in Albany. The records include weekly payroll sheets with employee's name; sex; occupation; hours worked; wage rate; total earnings; and (occasionally) case number. Attached to payroll sheets are employee's time sheets, signed by the local supervisor certifying the time claimed.
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Temporary Emergency Relief Administration projects payroll records
Quantity:

2.4 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:
1935
Series Number:
A2047

Arrangement

Alphabetic by city or county, thereunder in reverse chronological order, then by employee's relief status.

Administrative History

Emergency nursery schools were established upstate in February 1934 under the Civil Works Administration and continued with Temporary Emergency Relief Administration funds from April 1934 to December 1935. At that time the project was transferred to the Works Progress Administration. Emergency parent education classes were conducted in conjunction with many of these nursery schools. The Education Department also obtained a number of part time clerical and other employees with TERA funding beginning in 1933.

Scope and Content Note

These records consist of weekly payroll sheets giving: employee's name; sex; occupation; hours worked; wage rate; total earnings; and sometimes case number.

Attached to each payroll sheet are individual employee's time sheets, signed by the local supervisor certifying the time claimed. These records, dating March-December 1935, are from TERA projects in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Little Falls, Niagara Falls, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady City, and St. Lawrence County. Included are the Emergency Nursery School Project and part-time Education Department clerical staff hired on TERA funds to work in Albany.

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Container list of cities and counties contained in each box.

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