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This series consists of subject files on a variety of topics related to food production and healthy diet. Topics include food suppliers, nutrition, natural foods, composting, food cooperatives, gardening, and insect control.

Letters regarding study at the Summer Institute; article on the Amoy earthworm; statement by the faculty and staff regarding the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

This series is comprised of meeting minutes, treasury reports, and correspondence from 1930 to 1995. Minutes are from the Board of Directors, Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, and various other committees within the organization. Annual Meeting minutes are also included.

These records, located within the following sub-series, comprise the base of information used by NYSSAC on issues important to senior citizens and NYSSAC's role as senior advocates.

The Albany Branch Yearbooks contain the names, telephone numbers, and addresses of all members of the branch. The yearbooks are text only, there are no photos. The yearbooks contain no gaps.

This series contains primarily reprints by colleagues and other scholars, which were sent to Wyler.

This series documents Helen Quirini's extensive union activities through her membership in Local 301. When Quirini joined this local it was affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE). During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the federal government kept UE leadership and its members under surveillance because of suspected Communist ties. In his aggressive investigations of accused Communists, Senator Joseph McCarthy, chairman of the Committee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, subpoenaed Quirini and she was one of many members of the UE to testify in a pre-hearing before Congress in February 1954. She swore under oath that she was not and had never been a member of the Communist Party. Citing these supposed Communist connections, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled the UE in 1949 and replaced it with the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE). During subsequent years many UE locals elected to join the IUE, including Local 301 in June 1954. This series features materials related to all of the aforementioned events, including Quirini's subpoena, anti-McCarthy literature issued by unions, Quirini's surveillance files and a significant amount of propaganda from both unions issued before Local 301's vote to join the IUE.

Correspondence and publications dealing with Alvin Johnson and the establishment of the "University in Exile" and important activities of the Graduate School (conferences, anniversary celebrations, refugee assistance projects, etc.).

This series consists of pins, ash trays, banners, beanies, stuffed animals, embroidery, sorority family trees, glass bowls, jackets, jugs, keys, mugs, pledge paddles, patches, rattles, leather shields, sweatshirts, and tee shirts. Many of these items are stored in a steamer style trunk that is painted blue with Psi Gamma written in red letters. Items of note include two silver platters, one silver tea server, one silver coffee server, one silver sugar container, one silver goblet engraved with the Psi Gamma Greek letters (broken), and one silver vase.

The Chip Fab series compares the positives and negatives of this semiconductor plant. Information on the employment and revenue impacts versus the pollution potential, health hazards, and industry instability is scattered throughout the series. Other semiconductor manufacturers in New York and their statistics are available here as well. Health hazards such as high employee cancer risks, and water pollution and usage cause microchip plants to be dangerous. A geometrical report and a water supply study are each located in folders in the series. Local news clippings show how the community rallied against the Chip Fab project and prevented it from being constructed despite the influence of politicians who wanted the company to be built in North Greenbush.