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Neugass? correspondence files contain a small amount of correspondence with German friends (1941-1948). Most of the correspondence dates from the 1950s-1979 and includes correspondence with publishers and artists such as Jimmy Ernst, Joachim Berthold, Buell Mullen, and Bernard & Ursula Schultze.

This collection includes thousands of files previously maintained by the Alumni Association about individual graduates from the 20th Century. The contents of the files vary and range from simply housing an obituary to holding newsclippings, correspondence and other materials detailing a graduate's professional life. This often includes a ca. 1969 all alumni survey, class notes submissions and questionnaires targeted to specific graduating classes or campus organizations. At present time there is no master list of files, but they may be accessed by archives staff. Please contact the department with any questions.

This series contains materials related to the presidency of Evan Revere Collins, who held the position from 1949-1969. The origin of these materials trace to both Evan Collins himself, as well as the Presidential office from this time. These cover the important changes occurring on the campus at this time, including expansion of the downtown dormitories at Alumni Quadrangle, as well as the construction of the Uptown Campus, and the change of the New York State College for Teachers, into a University Center. Specific materials in the series include reports from individual departments, correspondence with staff and contractors, and annual reports form Collins, as well as those sent to the office of the president such as the Milne School annual report. There are some materials that date to after Collins presidency, and were most likely part of the records keeping of the Office of the President after the move to the uptown campus.

Prior to 1941, the "Crimson and White" had multiple forms. The June editions acted at the school yearbook, while other editions served as newsletters, literary periodicals, or other pamphlets. The "Bricks and Ivy" yearbooks began continually publishing in 1939 and after that in 1941, the "Crimson and White" became a newspaper, published until 1972.

This series contains primarily reprints sent to Herz by colleagues, but also contains some typescripts of conference and other papers. Represented in this series are a substantial collection of publications by Ernst Otto Czempiel, Ossip K. Flechthiem, Gerhard Herz (brother of John Herz) and Otto Kirchheimer.

This material is all outgoing correspondence from Daniel Button. It is arranged according to its original order, chronologically and then alphabetically. The files are color-coordinated by year and then listed in precise alphabetical order. All incoming correspondence is in either subject correspondence or case files. Also, the material has not been organized like Button's incoming mail, which he separated by individual case. He arranged his outgoing mail into large folders of A, B, C, etc.

Watt Espy sent and received a significant amount of correspondence as part of his work on the Capital Punishment Research Project. The majority of correspondence, however, was not organized when it arrived at the University at Albany. The archivists elected to arrange it into two groups: files devoted to prominent or regular correspondents, and general correspondence. The former includes key academics (Michael Radelet, Hugo Bedeau, Margaret Vandiver), attorneys (The California Appellate Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Ohio Public Defender's Office), death penalty abolitionists and advocacy group executives (Rev. Joe Ingle, Sister Helen Prejean, Henry Schwarzschild), prominent prisoners and their families (Kerry Max Cook, Gary McGivern), and researchers who frequently corresponded with Espy. There were also a small number of files that Espy organized by subject, such as letters to and from prisoners, telephone inquiries, or correspondence relating to executions in a particular state, and the archivists retained this order and kept the files in the first group. The second group includes more infrequent correspondents, usually general inquiries sent to libraries or archives for records relating to individuals executed or for research requests.

This series contains biographical material related to Bill Pelke, reference material on the capital punishment, photographs, draft and non-published articles, religious materials, and poetry, songs, plays, and other artistic materials created by death row inmates or about the death penalty collected by Bill Pelke.