Collections : [New York State Modern Political Archive]

Founded in 1977 by Bill and Andy Spence, Old Songs, Inc. is a not-for-profit, educational corporation that sponsors and hosts classes, workshops, performances, and more to promote traditional folk music and dance. This series focuses on the administrative side of the organization. Andy Spence served as executive director of Old Songs, Inc. until 2018 when she became executive director emeritus. She also served on the board in varying positions from the 1990s to the 2010s. Board of Director binders containing fiscal reports, agreements, business correspondence, meeting minutes, emails, planning documents, flyers, agendas, event information, newsletters, and more are included in this series.

This series contains information on miscellaneous subjects. Boxes 1 through 3 contain folders that are filed alphabetically. Among the prominent subjects, Box 1 contains documentation related to health and safety issues at KAPL sites. Box 2 contains information on naval shipyards and submarines. There is an extensive file on the Seawolf submarine. Box 3 includes testimony from the December 1990 hearing, environmental assessment, and documents relating to the AFR/NRDC lawsuit regarding the proposed installation and operation of the Advanced Fleet Reactor prototype at Kesselring site (1990-1992). Box 4 includes an extensive clipping file on GE and its issues (community relations, union, strikes).

The Clippings and Scrapbook Series consists of various newspaper clippings detailing and highlighting the activism of and events hosted by the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County. These files also include photographs of candidates and events, event bulletins, and flyers. There also are a few objects, including a tote bag and fan. The scrapbooks were originally created by the Saratoga Springs Public Library. Archivists unbound them for preservation purposes.

Series 6 is split into two subseries in order to preserve original order. The first subseries is arranged alphabetically. In the late 1990s, it appears that Senator Stafford's office changed the way it organized his correspondence. Subseries 2 reflects this change in organization. The researcher should also note that the files in Subseries 2 are arranged according to specific dates. It is possible that the switch came about when the Senator's staff switched to a new computerized form letter system that stored letters chronologically by their date of creation.

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).

This series contains the conferences and lectures that Raymond and Sara Harris participated in and attended. The conferences and lectures focused on gerontology and cardiovasular health. Both Raymond and Sara Harris gave lectures to members of the medical community, the Gerontological Society of America, and residents of the Albany area. Included in the series are documents from international conferences in Japan, China, Italy, and Israel. These records include travel itineraries, postcards, and souvenirs.

This series consists of records from Lumbard's other positions in public service, with professional associations, and other organizations. He worked as Chief Criminal Justice Consultant to the New Jersey State Legislature, 1967-1969, and an advisor to Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. of Maryland during his successful 1968 Senate campaign. He was a member of several professional associates including: the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He also worked in a wide variety of organizations during his professional career, including the New York City Police Foundation (trustee 1971-1991, chairman 1971-1974, 1977) and the New York State Maritime Museum (trustee 1969-1980). He was a member of the Citizen's Crime Commission, the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, John Lindsay for Mayor, and the Republican National Committee, Task Force on Crime. This series contains such materials as: reports, press releases, meeting minutes, directories, new clippings, academic papers, press packets, newsletters, photos, memos, transcripts and notes.

The Publications series consists of two publications. One is The Handclasp, a monthly newsletter published by the Business and Professional Women's Club of Schenectady (1932-2011, with gaps), and the other is The Communicator, a monthly newsletter published by the Business and Professional Women's Club of New York State (2001-2003, with gaps).

This series consists of two original drawings of published political cartoons. The first, Max Plaisted's "Rather a High Price for the Preliminary", was done in pen and ink and was probably drawn early in 1934. It concerns Assembly Republicans' internal disagreements about the appointment of W. Kingsland Macy as Assembly Clerk. The second, Rollin Kirby's "The Climb was Hard Enough Without This!" was done in pencil and colored pencil or pastel and is dated February 18, 1939. It addresses the impact of Governor Herbert Lehman's budget upon the state's taxpayers.

Correspondence, third-party reports, and conference and meeting materials make up the bulk of this series. Although a prior processing effort identified this series as SPA-SUFT files and the title has been retained, with the exception of two folders in the series specifically related to SUFT, the connection to SUFT of the materials in the other folders is unclear. Many of the materials post-date the merger of SUFT into UUP and numerous pieces of SPA correspondence, board minutes, and other SPA-related materials are also included. This series includes information relating to articles in UUP's negotiated contract related to health science centers and clinical practice concerns, and materials related to NYSUT meetings and activities. Unique to this series are the materials relating to collective bargaining in education in various states. Folders identified by state names contain correspondence between SPA and/or UUP and collective bargaining agents in other states (often other NEA affiliates), requests for information on SPA/UUP's collective bargaining experiences, and newsletters and other publications created by other educational bargaining agents.