Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of copies of surveys and studies conducted under W.P.A. sponsorship. Most studies apparently are not published. These studies are on many subjects, but tend to focus on real estate values, land use, and population in communities in New York State.

Some samples of studies included are: Utica housing survey; real property survey (several cities); real property inventory; Mt. Vernon master plan; report on Albany transients and homeless; study of 500 maladjusted young people in Rochester; school population study, Syracuse; police arrest survey, Buffalo; index of laws affecting Erie County; social and economic survey of Indian reservations.

Published Research Project on the Legal Width of Roads in Erie County, 1937-1939. 5 cubic feet. These softbound, mimeographed volumes were produced as a Works Project Administration project sponsored by Erie County. The volumes contain town road and lot maps, extracts from local records, and narrative descriptions of road routes. From these volumes one can determine when, where, and under what legal procedure roads were laid out and named. Most of the records abstracted are cited by page number as town or village "road records" or are from county deed books and survey maps and notes. At the end of the series is a short volume containing extracts from statutes affecting the laying out of roads.

A4179-00: This accretion consists of one bound unpublished report submitted by the Division of Women's and Professional Projects concerning professional and service projects in New York State. Projects described in the report include sewing, librarianship, assessment of public records, museum projects, engineering surveys, legal studies, traffic surveys, and economic surveys.

A4179-10: This accretion consists of a typescript index to 1850 federal census records for the city of Buffalo, N.Y. The index covers city wards 1-5 and provides data, where available, in the following fields: name, age, sex, birthplace, occupation, census page number, and reference. The index also contains an alphabetical listing of deaths recorded in the 1850 census. This list includes name, marital status, occupation (adult males only), age, sex, birthplace, death date, ward, and census page number.