Research


Scope and Content Note

This series contains records resulting from a 15-week white collar relief project funded through the State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration.

Records of the survey include: memoranda on procedures and staffing of the project; correspondence of the survey supervisor, mostly with field workers, concerning progress and conduct of the survey; newspaper clippings about the survey and historical events related to survey work; descriptions of and extracts from public records and private manuscripts; drawings of markers and monuments on the Saratoga battlefield; and notes on the history of Saratoga County.

The file of work completed for each city, village, or town may contain all or some of the following: narrative history of the community; lists of public record series and private manuscripts; extracts from records; historic background information on homesteads, historic sites, buildings, and markers; historic narratives on churches and cemeteries, including lists of church records and selected headstone inscriptions; descriptions of historic markers; sketch maps showing the locations of buildings and sites; and summarized recollections of elderly residents.