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The series is the main correspondence/subject file of the CCJ. It contains the correspondence, 1976-1982, predominantly of CCJ Chair/Director & Coordinator Irene Jackson, 1976-1982. To a lesser degree of Diane Geary, CCJ Administrative Assistant/Assistant Director 1979-1982, and Interim Director 1982-1983; Director Richard V. Avant, 1983; Executive Director Van Zwishohn, 1984; Good Time Project coordinator, 1981-1982, Planning and Legislative Coordinator 1982-1983, and Assistant Director Peter Pollack, 1982-1983; his successor as legislative coordinator Sandra Mitchell, 1983-1984, mostly with the New York State Commission of Corrections. Also includes correspondence with Senator Marino, Coalition members, the Department of Correctional Services, the Monroe County Legal Assistance Corporation (Greater Upstate Law Project), the Medical Society N.Y. State, the Council of Churches, the Creative Communications Committee of Green Haven, Prison Families Anonymous, INC., the Prison Outreach and Prevention Program, the Osborne Association, INC., the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Volunteer Attorney Service Teams for N.Y. State Prisons, Amnesty International, Prison Research Education Actions Project, Westchester Alliance, Prisoner's Accelerated Creative Exposure, INC., Prisoner Rehabilitation, INC., Full Step, INC., and the Fortune Society. The correspondence documents the mission of the organization, which is reforming the state's criminal justice system by educating citizens about the law. To improve the quality of the system, the CCJ advocates alternatives to the traditional criminal justice policy of incarceration. These alternatives include bail reform, sentencing reform, good time reform, second felony offender laws, redirecting correctional resources from prisons to community programs, expansion of the state temporary release program, victim restitution programs, community dispute resolution programs, and fighting against the death penalty and prison expansion. Other materials include: a December 29, 1981 draft article by Irene Jackson on the history, personnel & responsibilities, and programs of the Coalition financial/budget records, legal grants manuals, Good-Time reform project information, membership lists 1979-1980/82, prisoners legal services of N.Y. employee list 1981, judicial process committee membership list 1980, minority business directory, and lists of alternative programs. Series also contains photographs from supersession, training weekend, and Coalition staff. Cassette tapes contain audio from Community Correction Conference.

Contains the records of the Coalition's annual meetings, and special meetings on topics of interest to criminal justice reformers organized by the Coalition. The series also contains statements of goals and purpose, minutes, agendas, by-laws, proposed amendments to the by-laws, strategy suggestions, and several questionnaires directed for committee members. Also included are lists of organizations by caucuses in geographic regions, lists of the individuals in the different caucuses, and attendance at meetings. Notes of the executive and policy committee are available, they mainly include discussion of sub-committees work, and confirming new policies. The file also contains information on the Coalition's 1979 SuperSession, a two day agenda devoted to a discussion of topics such as good time, temporary release, and the death penalty. Super Sessions were also held in 1980 and 1981, where the main topics were inappropriate confinement and community corrections. Series also contains cassette tapes of panel questions from March 22-23, 1982, "Managing the Crisis: Population Policy".

Included is a financial report for the fiscal year 1977-1979, and a proposal for training the Coalition's satellites to become more effective 1979. Known funding agents include the Albany Focus Churches Task Force, the Albany Rotary Club. Community service society, New York State Catholic Conference, United Methodist Women, the Judicial Process Commission, United Presbyterian Women, and by far the greatest funding support was received from the New York State Council of Churches. Membership dues was also added to funding. Also found is a 1976 grant proposal by the coalition for an education program in criminal justice for citizens, elected officials, and administrators, a 1977 supplement is also included. Also present are Funding requirement updates 1978-1979 and a progress report to the New York State Council of Churches. Grant request/proposal samples from the coalition to several possible funding organizations, donations and paid membership dues listings for 1981-1982 can also be found.

This series is made up of materials from the first incarnation of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), before its split into the College of Fine Arts and Humanities, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and College of Science and Mathematics. During the period covered by this series, the functions of those colleges were administered by Divisions along similar organizational lines. This series contains some materials that both predate the organization of CAS as well as other materials from after it was subdivided. The bulk of the materials however focus on the college's administration and the various committees that the College of Arts and Sciences Deans L. Gray Cowan and Charles Colman served on during the 1960s and 1970s.

This series documents materials prepared for the University's accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. These materials represent the Humanities Division's preparations for the accreditation process and include departmental reports, correspondence and memoranda, forms, self-studies by academic departments and articles circulated by members of the Humanities Division's committee charged with overseeing preparations for the accreditation.

The communications series encompasses mailings, newsletters, and events that Mr. Bonowitz participated in.

This series contains articles, letters from inmates, reports about the death penalty, and summaries of cases. This series is arranged alphabetically.

This series is arraigned chronologically. The subjects covered in the general correspondence series are diverse and focus on work Abe Bonowitz participated in and conducted for a variety of different organization as a social activist and death penalty abolitionist. Posted letters, organizational mailings, and printed email threads between coworkers, volunteers, and diverse third parties are all represented and serve to paint a picture of the daily work involved in conducting abolition campaigns across the United States. These materials cover a date range from the early 1990s through the early 2010s and their arrangement serves to illustrate how Mr. Bonowitzs work for different groups and organizations often overlapped and informed one another.

Contains the website for the annual conference along with the published conference proceedings.

This series is made up of files related to the founding, organization and management of the Society. It includes the society's bylaws, meeting minutes, programs for conferences organized by the Society, various contracts with the University at Albany, SUNY, budget documentation, the Society's song, and documentation on various conferences and proposed conferences organized by the Society. There are also several files containing correspondence between members of the society and outside individuals. Additionally, this series contains instructions, promotional material and a board for the society's "Beer Game," a board game designed to introduce people to general concepts in system dynamics.

Records giving the organizational structure of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Albany, New York, as well as that of the state and national groups. Includes revisions of the by-laws (1979-80, 1982), a printed copy of the certificate of incorporation for the Business and Professional Women's Clubs of New York State, Inc. (1965), copies of the constitution of the BPW of Albany (1934), and maps and charts showing the district organization of BPW in New York State (1976).

Minutes of board meetings, including some pertinent memoranda and reports.

Minutes of the regular business meetings, which were the general meetings of the BPW.

The collection contains the constitutions for 1898, 1903, and 1927-1991. The Constitution includes Articles, By-Laws, and Amendments. The Club's By-Laws specify the procedure by which new members are proposed. The earliest Pine Hills Fortnightly Club Constitution is handwritten in a notebook followed by the first recording of membership names dated 1900. Included in the constitutions are by-laws, articles, and amendments to the Constitutions. Constitutions often contain hand annotated revisions for incorporation into the next year's constitution.

Programmes are titled by the Club's annual themes. Programmes and Yearbooks have a copy of the Club Song, list the paper titles and presenter's name, the names of officers and committee members, and a listing of all active members, associate members, nonresident members, honorary members, and members "in memoriam." Beginning in 1921, a list of reference books, or a bibliography associated with the year's theme, became a standard inclusion. Program Committee files describe the formulation of the yearly themes and the provision of direction and guidance for the subject of a member's paper. The Committee assigns the schedule where members commit to delivering a paper at a scheduled meeting.

Printed copies of the Albany Typographical Union's constitutions and rules of order.

The minutes include correspondence, newspaper clippings, committee and convention reports, financial reports, and other material. The 1850-55 minute book ends with a copy of the local's constitution signed by each charter member. The 1892-97 minute book is partially burned, and many of the final pages of the book are water damaged, so it is possible that that 1855-74 minute book merely suffered greater damage and was subsequently discarded. The first few minute books are handwritten into bound volumes; however, by the 1890s many of the sheets are typewritten and glued into the volumes. This technique often reduces the legibility of the record. By the twentieth century, the volumes are bound from loose sheets of minutes, correspondence and other material, and the records are more difficult to use. From 1960, the minutes are filed loose in folders. The minutes from 1960s on contain increased documentation of financial activities.

This single volume has been updated by the Albany Typographical Union for over 80 years and contains information about members from decades previous to 1907. The record book "starts with the active enrollment as given on the election list of May 15, 1907," and the names of signatories of the constitution roll book of 1860 are also included. All subsequent enrollments were included until the book was filled in 1953, but the record book was updated with information about members' deaths, etc., through 1988. Information included in this volume includes age of member, place where apprenticeship was fulfilled, dates membership began, dates and reasons membership was severed, and date and cause of death. The book includes a name index to the entries which gives the entry number for each member's name.

Series 1 includes the proceedings from New York State Republican Committee meetings. One of its most useful features is the quantity of information about legislation passed and the voting statistics for counties. These would be useful for those writing political histories; one could follow trends in voting patterns to determine how the composition of counties has changed and what issues have become more important than others. Another useful element one can find in this series is the differences of voting trends in times of war and depression. The minutes also give insight into the various personalities of those involved in state politics. The minutes are also good sources of quotations for particular committee members' stands on legislation. Many of the minutes include the current party platform, allowing one to determine how the goals of the party have changed over time. An in-depth picture of the New York Republican State Committee is available through the minutes.

The series is arranged in three sub-series: general correspondence of Eugen Spiro, 1903-1913 and 1941-1972; correspondence with owners and subjects of Spiro paintings; and correspondence of Lilly Spiro, primarily dating from the years after Eugen's death, 1972-1985. Among the noteworthy correspondents are: Tilla Durieux, Albert Einstein, George Grosz, Theodor Heuss, Otto Loewi, Thomas Mann, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Albert Schweitzer and Gottfried Reinhard Treviranus.

This series consists primarily of texts prepared by Eugen Spiro, including versions of curriculum vitae, short biographies, and lists of paintings for exhibits.

This series consists of typescripts of essays as well as several early stories by Spiro.