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The series consists of two main sections: family documents and records, and biographical materials and documents of Albert (Leser) Lestoque. The family documents consist primarily of documents pertaining to the family estate known as Auf'm Rech located in the Plittersdorf section of Bonn, Germany. The records consist of land purchase records of various pieces of property primarily in Bonn, as well as records of furniture and art purchases for the property in Plittersdorf. Additional records pertaining to the property, as well as documents and materials pertaining to other family members are found in the Paul Leser Papers.

This series consists primarily of correspondence between Lestoque and officials or other members of the Akademischer Ruder-Club, a sports club in Bonn, Germany. The correspondence (1933-1935) deals with the denial of Lestoque's club membership rights due to his Jewish heritage.

The Julius Lips materials consist of Albert Lestoque's files on the plagiarism case against Lips in which his brother, Paul Leser, was one of the primary accusers. These materials augment the larger collection of materials contained in the Paul Leser Papers.

This series contains a brief biographical statement by Wyler, copies of his publication lists, and one brief newspaper article on the event of his 65th birthday.

This series contains correspondence with administrators and colleagues at the New School for Social Research, including Alvin Johnson, Hans Neisser, Hans Simons, Hans Staudinger, as well as correspondence dealing with publications and with other scholars, including Naum Jasny, Felix Kaufmann, Simon Kuznets, and Paul Studenski.

This series contains many of the published writings of Wyler, both from his years at the Federal Statistical Office (Eidgenössische Statistische Amt) in Switzlerand (in German, 1916-1940), as well as from his years in the United States (in English and in German, 1941-1959). This series also contains materials from the Council of Research of the Institute of World Affairs of the New School for Social Research and includes typescripts by Wyler and and other participants, 1944-1951. Also included in this section are course outlines and reading lists from courses taught by Wyler at the New School.

This series consists of copies of art and professional vitae, newspaper clippings about Geof Huth and his work, school records, records relating to readings given by and art shows displaying Huth's visual art and visual poetry, and files relating to associations Huth has been active in (including archival associations).

This series consists of paper and electronic manuscripts of all the types of artistic works produced by Geof Huth (poetry, fiction, essays, aphorisms, visual poems, dramatic works, comics, digital poems, and others).

This series includes personal and dbqp correspondence and mailart, especially from the mid-1980s until the present.

This series consists of information about Vera Michelson's personal life. This series contains newspaper articles, personal correspondence, and a copy of Michelson's birth certificate.

This series consists of records relating to Vera Michelson's involvement in the Capital District Coalition against Apartheid and Racism (CD-CAAR). The CD-CAAR series includes documents from various court cases involving Michelson, and other members of the CD-CAAR organization. The series also contains organizational pamphlets, correspondence, and newspaper articles related to the Springboks rugby controversy. There is a file on Malcomlm X's daughter Qubilah Shabazz's 1995 arrest for conspiring to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan containing information on the case, the FBI informant, and the informant's possible connections to Michelson and the Springbok protests 14 years earlier. In addition, the series includes organizational minutes, other correspondence, banners, and posters relating to its cultural boycott of apartheid. This series contains audio and video records as well as the paper records mentioned above.

The social activism series includes information regarding Vera Michelson's activism with organizations outside of the Capital District Coalition against Apartheid and Racism. This series includes records relating to Cure Violence, SNUG, Urban Grief, and ROOTS (Re-Entry Opportunities and Orientation Toward Success). Michelson devoted her life to these social activism organizations, which often intersected in their missions to address racial discrimination and gun violence in the Capital District. This series includes meeting minutes, correspondence, newspaper articles, and ephemera from the various organizations.

Arranged chronologically and interfiled, except for the minutes of the Executive Committee meetings, 1915-19. Minutes through 1968 are glued into scrapbooks.

Agenda distributed prior to the meetings, correspondence and memoranda concerning the meetings, pamphlets about the sites of large meetings, copies of minutes, copies of reports prepared for the meetings.

Speech files contain drafts of the speeches of AINY president, Raymond T. Schuler, correspondence concerning the speeches, programs for some of the events at which Schuler gave a speech, and news clippings concerning the subjects of the speeches.

This series consists of correspondence, meeting minutes of the Board of Directors (1977-1985) and the Executive Committee (1971-1973, 1984), and committee files created or gathered by the executive director, chairman, president, general secretary, and committee chairs of the Association. It also contains biographical information about prospective board members gathered by the Nominating Committee (1963-1967, 1969, 1971-1972, 1974-1982, 1984). Other documents in the series include meeting agendas, memoranda, grant proposals, reports, membership statistics, and records concerning bequests and endowments made to the Association. This material concerns prison conditions, children of offenders, sentencing policies, court rulings concerning prisoners' efforts to form labor unions, construction of new correctional facilities, and the operations of the Association itself. Letters from inmates concerning living conditions in various correctional facilities, transfers from one facility to another, health issues, allegations of abuse by corrections officers, and post-release work arrangements and drug-rehabilitation programs are scattered throughout the series. One of the letters (1985) directed to Correctional Association President Robert Gangi was written by Jean Harris, who became interested in the special problems of female inmates and their children during her imprisonment for murder. Note that the files created by the Institution's Visiting Committee are housed in Series 3, Prison Visits Files, circa 1915-1985, and files created by the Narcotics Committee are housed in Series 4, Narcotics Committee Files, 1949-1975.

This series consists exclusively of the annual reports on prison and jail conditions that the Prison Association/Correctional Association submitted to the New York State Assembly. The reports contain minutes of meetings, presidential addresses, committee reports, reports on individual prisons and prison conditions, prison reform campaigns in New York State, transcripts of testimony before the NYS legislature on pending policy measures, and lists of members and corresponding members of the Association. Reports published during the latter half of the nineteenth century chronicle the Association's role in establishing national and international prison reform organizations and conferences and furnish information about prison policies elsewhere in the United States and the world.

This series consists of material generated in connection with the Correctional Association's statutory responsibility for inspecting jails, prisons, and adolescent detention facilities in New York State. Documents in this series were created by the Association's General Secretary, Institutions Visiting Committee, and other personnel and include correspondence, prison visit reports, prison tour requests, memoranda, affidavits, and other court records. Also included are records concerning Correctional Association President Adam McQuillan's 1977 visit to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The only document from circa 1915 is a pamphlet describing a traveling exhibition concerning the New York State prison system.

This series consists of records of the Board of Directors relating to the governing of the CWG and is arranged in four subseries: Board Members, Executive Committee, Board of Directors Meeting Reports, and Board Correspondence. These records were created and maintained by the Administrative Office of the CWG for Center and Board operations.

This series contains the retained records of the first President of the Board of Directors and co-founder of the CWG, Linda Tarr-Whelan and consists of correspondence (letters and memoranda's for 1977-6/79), agendas, proposal notes, photocopies of news clippings, Board and other reports. Topics 'included are sex discrimination in public employment, career mobility, and establishment of the CWG, affirmative action, funding and career planning. Some of the information contained in these files predate the founding of the CWG in 1978.

Contains 1979-83 day files preceded by general incoming and outgoing correspondence files. This series consists of the central day files of the CWG. It includes letters, form letters, memoranda, project proposals, and project updates. Topics covered in this series includes career ladders, career mobility (1979-85), sex discrimination and discrimination of the handicapped, women and minority advancement, comparable worth/pay equity 1979-86), child care, and sexual harassment (1979-83), as well as Center training programs, and funding.

Series is made up of various collected budget requests submitted to the main SUNY Administrative offices. They contain plans for the completion of various apsects of the campus during its inital constuction in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Series is made up of correspondence and requests from Clara Maidenbaum's work as Assistant to the Vice President.

Thsi series is made up of materials transferred by Theodore Jennings. It contains files from the Office of the Assistant to the President including correspondence with other institutions, adminstrative documents, as well as documents from various events the President attended.