Collections : [New York State Modern Political Archive]

The series primarily includes materials related to breast cancer advocacy, research, and education. It features curriculum material for courses taught at Siena College, files about advocacy events, an award speech, as well as a presentation on breast cancer. Please note that this series included several floppy disks containing materials complementary to (and sometimes duplicates of) the paper files. As there were a small number of files, the archivist elected to print out the materials on disk and inter-file them with the original paper materials. Then the archivist saved all of the Microsoft Word documents on disk as PDFs on CD. This CD is available for review by researchers.

This series is divided into subseries by SUNY center school; each contains meeting minutes, correspondence, organizing reports, contact lists and other papers that show the daily and monthly operations of the SUNY school divisions of the GSEU Local 1104. There is considerable evidence of the connection between statewide executive committee members and the local branches of the GSEU as they worked to solve issues including parking fees, technology fees, tuition waivers, fair wage, and more. As noted above, there are considerably more files for SUNY Buffalo than there are for the three other schools, probably due in large part to Buffalo’s role as the birthplace of the union movement.

This series contains correspondence concerning bills and legislation, discussions on meeting agendas, committee reports, drafts of meeting minutes, contacts with guests speakers, and correspondence with government officials. These dates are not inclusive. The series spans the tenure of Elsie M. Bond's position as executive secretary. The first letter represented in this series is her 1932 letter to New York's Governor Roosevelt and the last is the records surrounding the Association's last name change in 1949. Miss Bond's 1949 files cover this interesting event and contain duplications of the 1918 and 1928 incorporation papers as well as a certified statement that her New York City office was in fact the organization's headquarters. See the Scope and Content note for important aspects of this series.

This series contains materials generated by the Northeastern Federation of Women and the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and collected by the ESFWC. Records created by the NFWC include executive board and annual convention minutes (1967, 1981, 1989), programs and other convention materials (1975, 1979, 1981, 1987), and newsletters (1958, 1972, 1974, 1977-1978). Records documenting the activities of the NACWC include a copy of the constitution (undated), convention minutes (1968, 1978, 1980, 1982), programs and other convention materials (1952, 1970, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1988, 1990), periodicals (1972, 1976-1979), and reports of the president (1987). A handful of documents in this series concern the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1980 ?) and the National Urban League (1974, 1979), both of which received funds from the ESFWC. Other materials document social issues and other organizations in which the ESFWC took an interest, among them the Front Royal Educational Fund Committee (c.1959), the New Rochelle Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs (1975), and the Westchester County Section of the National Council of Negro Women (1990).

The publications and reports are devoted to the many aspects of reproductive health and choice and the costs incurred, as well as some issues before the legislature.

The Correspondence files are separated into three subseries: Correspondence with Community Organizations, 1941-1953; Correspondence with AAUW Headquarters and New York State and Division, 1951-1957; and General Correspondence, 1936-1965. Documents within the folders are filed in reverse chronological order. The only gaps in the series occur in the General Correspondence files: 1944-1946 and 1951-1952.

The films in the collection document Republicans and the Republican Party from the 1950s through the 1970s. The films include portraits of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, former President Dwight Eisenhower, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, and President Richard Nixon after his first year in the White House. Four of the films were from the Campaign School Series of the Republican National Committee used in the elections of 1956. The original films were formatted on 8mm and 16mm film. Use copies in VHS and DVD format are available for use in the Department for all of the films except "Portrait of a Senator", the sprocket holes of which were in too poor condition to allow the film to be reformatted at this time.

Correspondence and third-party reports make up the bulk of this series, and some of the materials appear to have been reference files rather than related to matters in which SPA/UUP was directly involved. Other materials, such as correspondence and minutes from meetings of the SUNY Board of Trustees, information on the SUNY budget, or about the SUNY Faculty Senate document the environment in which SPA and UUP were created and in which they negotiated contracts. The same can be said for the materials included in the series relating to New York State United Teachers, which was an influential force in UUP's formative years.

This series contains correspondence, budgets, the records of ASPA conferences (especially the regional conference this chapter held in Albany in 1978), the national and local associations' constitutions, a few publications from organizations with related interests, videotapes of ASPA educational programs (May 1988), and files on subjects they were working on, such as civil service reform. Other records in this series include correspondence that was not a part of the presidents' files or the secretary's files. The bulk of the correspondence is that with the National Association, though much of that consists of memoranda sent to local chapters.