New York State Dept. of Public Instruction Office of the Superintendent Subject Files of Correspondence Received
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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 of unbound records consists of correspondence, narrative and statistical reports, certificates, and miscellaneous
financial papers received by the Office of the Superintendent. The records relate to a wide variety of responsibilities of
the Superintendents' Office, including specific programs authorized by statute, as well as ongoing administrative activities.
Creator:
Title:
Subject files of correspondence received
Quantity:
Inclusive Dates:
1849-1888 (with gaps)
Series Number:
A2004
Arrangement
Arranged by subject category or document type, then chronologically by date of receipt or alphabetically by name of county.
Scope and Content Note
This series of unbound records consists of correspondence, narrative and statistical reports, certificates, and miscellaneous
financial papers received by the Office of the Superintendent. The records relate to a wide variety of responsibilities of
the Superintendents' Office, including specific programs authorized by statute, as well as ongoing administrative activities.
Many of the records provide detailed statistical information about school districts or specific schools.
Related Material
04340 Incoming Correspondence
A2000 Outgoing Correspondence
A2006 Outgoing Correspondence Relating to the State Teachers' Library
A2002 Registers of Telegrams Sent
A2001 Teachers' Institute Registers of Attendance and Accounts of Expenses and
A2005 Affidavits Relating to Loss of Teaching Certificates, all contain correspondence relating to similar subjects
A2001 Teachers' Institute Registers of Attendance and Accounts of Expenses, contains additional records relating to teachers' institutes
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Detailed Description
| Dates |
Contents |
Box |
Accretion: A2004-77 |
| 1862-1886 (w/ gaps) |
Announcements, correspondence, reports, and circulars regarding teachers' institutes |
1 |
| 1854-1877 (w/ gaps) |
Applications for teaching positions |
1 |
| 1865-1873 |
Applications, correspondence, and reports relating to district apportionments of public funds for schools |
2 |
| 1854-1882 |
Receipts from county treasurers for public funds for schools |
2 |
| 1856-1860 |
Record of salaries paid to school commissioners |
2 |
| 1856 |
Records relating to the distribution of the Code of Public Instruction |
3 |
| 1868 |
Records relating to the distribution of the Code of Public Instruction |
3 |
| 1868 |
Records relating to the distribution of the Code of Public Instruction |
4 |
| 1888 |
Records relating to the distribution of the Code of Public Instruction |
4 |
| 1865-1877 |
Notices of change of school districts |
4 |
| 1854-1880 |
Application for state teaching certificates |
4 |
| 1854-1880 |
Application for state teaching certificates |
5 |
| 1875-1876, 1880 |
Copies of examinations for state teaching certificates |
5 |
| 1855-1856 |
Register of state teaching certificates granted |
5 |
| 1874 |
Correspondence regarding the compulsory education law of 1874 (Chapter 421) |
5 |
| 1866-1884 |
Certificates of election of school commissioners |
5 |
| 1880-1881 |
Requests for student registers |
5 |
| 1858-1883 |
"Indian Papers" |
5 |
| 1888-1889 |
Papers relating to the revocation of state teacher's certificate held by Adelbert Gardenier |
5 |
| 1854-1876 |
Miscellaneous financial records relating to the Common School Fund and Free School Fund |
6 |
| 1864-circa 1867 |
Miscellaneous bonds |
6 |
| 1863-1867 |
Papers relating to county school tax assessments |
6 |
| 1858-1863 |
Correspondence from county treasurers |
6 |
| 1851-1856 |
Records relating to distribution of Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries to school districts pursuant to Chapter 449, Laws of
1851
|
6 |
| 1856-1857 |
Correspondence and catalogues received from publishers |
6 |
| 1868 |
Papers relating to Brockport Normal and Training School |
6 |
| 1869 |
Papers relating to Cortland Normal and Training School |
6 |
| 1872-1873 |
Papers relating to Fredonia Normal and Training School |
6 |
| 1871-1873 |
Papers relating to Geneseo Normal and Training School |
6 |
| 1868 |
Papers relating to Oswego Normal and Training School |
6 |
| 1857-1859 |
Correspondence and reports received from New York Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind |
6 |
| 1854 |
Statistical abstracts of reports by town superintendents of common schools |
7 |
| 1856 |
Correspondence and narrative reports by school commissioners |
7 |
| 1856, 1864-1867 |
Financial reports of school funds by town supervisors |
7 |
| 1867 |
Special reports by school district trustees on school district characteristics and school facilities, equipment, staff, pupils,
and curriculum
|
7 |
| 1876-1877 |
Special reports of school commissioners in regard to visitation of schools |
7 |
| 1876-1877 |
Special reports of school commissioners in regard to visitation of schools |
8 |
| 1876-1879 |
Reports by local school officials regarding the industrial drawing curriculum in schools |
8 |
| 1854 |
Financial and statistical reports by town superintendents to school commissioners, Albany County |
8 |
| 1856, 1865-1872 |
Financial and statistical reports by school district trustees to school commissioners, Albany County |
8 |
| 1866 |
Statistical reports by teachers to school commissioners, Albany County |
9 |
| 1864 |
Financial and statistical reports by school district trustees to school commissioners, Delaware County |
9 |
| 1863 |
Financial and statistical reports by school district trustees to school commissioners, Erie County |
9 |
| 1854 |
Financial and statistical reports by school district trustees to school commissioners, Herkimer County |
9 |
| 1878 |
Circulars and correspondence relating to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 |
9 |
| circa 1850s-1870s |
Miscellaneous copies of laws, galley and page proofs, and publications |
9 |
| undated |
Statistical tables providing size and value of libraries and cost of school buildings and lots by county |
9 |
| 1870, 1878 |
"Miscellaneous Papers" |
9 |
| 1849-1852 |
Correspondence, Superintendent of Common Schools |
9 |
