Collections : [New York State Modern Political Archive]

The union kept its letters and memos according to those whose origins were national and those whose origins were local. Therefore, this series is divided into national and local subseries with folder titles retained exactly as the TTUU named them. Both subseries are arranged by year, then alphabetically by folder title within each year. The national subseries contains substantial incoming and outgoing correspondence from specific offices or people such as James Irvine (CWA vice-president) and Morton Bahr (CWA president) or presidents of locals in District One, which covers unions in New York, New Jersey, New England, and eastern Canada. The local subseries tend to be divided by group affiliation such as NYTel workers, stewards, and AT&T headquarters.

The Albany Memo is the newsletter published monthly by Family Planning Advocates of New York State. These one to two-page newsletters contain information on the organization's activities and the laws being enacted related to family planning. Also included is information on reproductive issues and the organization's role in fostering responsible family planning. Published in the newsletter are the voting records of state legislators for issues that deal directly with birth control, abortion, parental consent, Medicaid funding for abortion, pre-natal care, and related issues Often whole bills before the state legislature are found printed in the Albany Memo.

These records include the correspondence sent and received by Michael Burgess, Executive Director of NYSSAC during this period. Documents include personal letters, intra-organization correspondence, and correspondence with notables such as State Senator Hugh Farley; Director of State Executive Services, Tonio Burgos; Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink; Assemblyman Paul Harenberg; Executive Deputy Secretary of State, James N. Baldwin; and cartoons and letters by local newspaper cartoonist, Charles Ferraro. The series also holds responses to the Public Services Commission's Energy Conservation Survey and correspondence on the grassroots promotional campaign, Savingpower, supporting the Home Insulation and Energy Conservation Act (HIECA).

Series 2 contains materials related to Voter Service, the LWVAC's most active program. Voter Service materials include information about the activities the LWVAC took part in such as registering people to vote, participating in poll watching during elections, sponsoring debates and publishing pamphlets with information about candidates and citizens' voting rights. In this particular collection there are several bulletins on "Voter Service and Election Law", campaign material for the Motor Voter Law in the United States in 1990 and in New York State in 1994, campaign material for Permanent Personal Registration in New York State, and the Get Out the Vote Campaign of 1996. Published material includes Voter's Guides from various years and Your City, County and Political Parties (no date). Also in this series are papers from the Speaker's Bureau (1961-1990, not inclusive), the LWVAC committee that spoke to other local groups informing them about voting procedures and upcoming elections.

Includes a scrapbook, a report card book, a wallet, an address book, blank letterhead, awards, and citations.

These files document the work performed by individual committees and their respective chairmen. The series is broken down into seven subseries, each corresponding to a particular committee: Branch History Committee, Fellowship Committee, Hospitality Committee, Membership Committee, Program Committee, Public Information Committee, and the Antique Study Group. Documents within the Committee Files folders are filed chronologically excepting the chairmen's correspondence files, which are filed in reverse chronological order.

Correspondence contained in this series deal with meeting and program planning, special events and meetings, invitations to speakers, letters of acceptance, preparations for meetings, as well as some meeting minutes. The NYPWA corresponded with all county social services offices and related officials. These dates are not inclusive as this series does not represent the only correspondence contained in the collection. Correspondence are represented in every series.

Series 2 consists of publications from SUNY, including various newsletters, published meeting minutes, and annual reports. Also included in Subject Files is correspondence from various educational organizations outside of the SUNY system, papers from the SASU, and studies regarding higher education systems in New York and across the country.