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New York (State) -- Politics and government.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Hugh White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 610
Abstract Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data and other papers pertaining chiefly to White's involvement in land in northern New York, particularly the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence; material concerning the cement business at Chittenango and Greenkills, New York. Also, political papers (1840-1867), which include material on the...
Dates: 1750-1933.

Jane Hedges Todd papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2763
Scope and content Includes correspondence; invitations to political ceremonies and events; radio interviews; news releases; articles; speeches; reports; printed material on legislation; biographical accounts; material about Tarrytown, New York; certificates of election; citations; announcements and autographed programs from testimonial dinners; material concerning the Department of Commerce, the New York State Woman's Council, and the economy; scrapbooks of clippings; pamphlets, slides, photographs, and other...
Dates: 1920-1966.

John Raymond Pillion papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2458
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, card files, news releases, legislative bills, tape recordings, clippings, scrapbooks, and questionnaires relating to Pillion's work as an assemblyman and congressman.

Dates: 1947-1965.

Joseph McGinnies papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1943
Abstract

Microfilm of letters, speeches, and newspaper clippings; Also one undated photograph of McGinnies, and two programs.

Dates: 1925-1942.

Kernan family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 772
Abstract

Letters, clippings, speeches, and miscellaneous items relating to the activities of the Kernan family of Utica. Also, included are genealogical records of the Hyde, Butler, Avery, and Clapp families.

Dates: 1776-1922.

Leo P. Noonan papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2169
Scope and content

Collection includes correspondence (1951+) with constituents, colleagues, and members of the state administrative departments, mainly concerning pending legislation on education, railroad and other labor issues, dairy industry, and public works; scrapbooks, (2 v., 1940-47, 1949-53) of clippings, photographs, and other items dealing with election campaigns and Assembly activities; also, mimeographed and printed material.

Dates: 1940-1960.

Lyman A. Spalding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 522
Abstract

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, records, and publications related to the career of Lyman A. Spalding, a nineteenth-century Quaker merchant and abolitionist who lived in upstate New York. He was co-editor of the newspaper Plain Truth and established the newspaper Priestcraft Exposed and Primitive Christianity Defended.

Dates: 1811-1864 (bulk)

Lyon family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1285
Scope and content

Sanford G. Lyon items include a two page manuscript history of the business activities of Sanford G. Lyon, Sr. and other members of his family, 1885-1937, written by Josephine Head Lyon in 1953, concerning the shipment of livestock, sale of hay, grain, coal, lumber, farm and building supplies, as well as Lyon's own brand of fertilizer. Also, newspaper clippings pertaining to Lyon's candidacy for the New York State Legislature, 1922-1924.



Dates: 1914-2003.

Maurice F. Neufeld papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4002
Abstract

Correspondence, notebooks, pamphlets, and bulletins concerning Maurice F. Neufeld's association with New York State government work during World War II, 1941-1943, and in 1948-1949.

Dates: [ca.1941]-1949.

New York agricultural leaders oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-428
Abstract

Includes interviews with farmers, officials of the State Grange, New York State and American Farm Bureau Federations, the Dairymen's League, GLF, and other agricultural businesses, county agents, extension specialists, faculty and staff members of the New York State College of Agriculture, and others involved in agriculture in New York State.

Dates: 1962-1968.