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.
General minutes of the meetings of the Finance Committee.
Files on individual directors, containing tables of the directors' association with Associated Industries, correspondence concerning their directorships, photographs and news clippings.
Press releases and drafts of these from Associated Industries of New York, including some printed on the AINY letterhead, some titled "For the Press," some titled "Joint News Release" from AINY, the Empire State Chamber of Commerce, New York State Council of Retail Merchants, New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, also including some written "statements" and "specials to" newspapers by Raymond T. Schuler, and a few news releases from other sources but on subjects which concerned AINY. Note: The complete text of any speech of Raymond T. Schuler's mentioned in a press release can be found filed chronologically with the speeches in the President's File.
Bound volumes of The Monitor (1914-70), pamphlets, leaflets, flyers (1958-66, 1976-78), reprints from The Monitor (1963-65), Legislative Brief (1977-79), Bulletin (1978-79), This Week from the Capital (1978-79), Insight, (1979).
News releases from various sources, news clippings, copies of legislative acts.
Mostly the papers of different partners of Costello, Cooney ;amp Fearon, counsel for Associated Industries, including legal briefs and pertinent correspondence (1974-80), proposed by-laws (1972, 1976-77), employment file on Raymond T. Schuler (1977-79), certificates of incorporation and of tax exempt status (1920, 1945-47, 1953-56, 1962, 1972), subject files on workmen's compensation, pregnancy disability benefits, social security, unemployment insurance and lobbying (1958-59, 1966-70, 1975-79).
General auditor's reports, statements of assets, statements of receipts and disbursements.