This is the largest series in the collection and contains Leser's correspondence with other anthropologists and colleagues, life-long friends, as well as some students. (The bulk of the student correspondence is filed with the student records, Series 16).
The miscellaneous materials files have been divided into two sections, those materials collected and used by Roy C. Bates, and those of his wife, Barbara Bent Bates.
This series deals with the conferences that NYCAP planned, presented, participated in, or attended. Additionally, this series also includes some college classes on agriculture that were taught in cooperation with Tracy Frisch before the formation of NYCAP. There are also workshops included in this series, consisting of short classes or training sponsored by NYCAP. These files include conference planning meetings, correspondence with speakers and participants, attendance lists, advertisements, programs, schedules, location information, and speaker notes.
This series consists of a wide array of material concerning correctional facility operations, criminal law and the criminal courts, juvenile offenders, rehabilitation programs, and other subjects in which the Correctional Association was interested. Documents include published reports, news clippings, newsletters of other organizations, affidavits, and brochures. Correspondence from various Correctional Association personnel is scattered throughout this series. Most of it is routine (e.g., requests for copies of reports), but some of the files dating from the 1960s contain copies of letters detailing specific aspects of New York State criminal law and correctional facility policies.
This series documents the Atlantic Chapter's efforts to stop the proposed hydroelectric project near James Bay in northern Quebec in the early 1990s. Hydro-Quebec, the province's public electrical utility, intended to build a series of hydroelectric stations on the Great Whale River (Fr. Grande Baleine), and sell the electricity produced in the United States, particularly to New York and Vermont. This was the second phase of a larger project dating back to 1971. The project involved flooding a large area of northern Quebec, which opponents claimed would have drowned the breeding grounds of several wildlife species, released deposits of mercury into the environment, and disrupted the subsistence habits of the Cree Indians of Quebec. New York State signed two contracts with Hydro-Quebec for James Bay electricity, one for 800 megawatts (MW) and the other for 1000MW in 1989. Efforts by the Sierra Club and other organizations to cancel the contracts began almost immediately, and the project gained wide media attention by 1991-1992, due in part to publicity tours by the Quebec Cree and Inuit in the United States. The contracts were cancelled in 1992 and 1994. Items found in the series include papers by various American and Canadian environmental organizations, materials relating to the two contracts, items by and about the Cree Indians of Quebec, Hydro-Quebec documents (including the complete twenty-seven volume Grande Baleine Complex feasibility study, and a study of the related Sainte Marguerite-3 hydroelectric project), economic and ecological studies, and relevant New York State documents.
The Statewide Abolition Groups are all of the different groups from states fighting to end the death penalty in their respective state.
This series consists of typescripts by Neugass, photographs and clippings on contemporary photographers and photography exhibits as well as photographic methods and mediums.
This series contains the correspondence and publications of the Center on Minorities and Criminal Justice. Also contained in this series is a small amount of correspondence relating to the Center's predecessor, the Training Program in Criminal Justice Education. Planning and Budgetary documents as well as publications produced by the Center comprise the vast majority of the documents of this unit of the School of Criminal Justice.
This series contains materials pertaining to the organizations in which Graf was involved, primarily during his years in the United States.
This series contains correspondence regarding specific subjects during Button's time as a U.S. Representative. Many of his constituents ask him for White House flags and agricultural yearbooks, but there are other notable topics as well. These include Albany's Arbor Hill neighborhood (attempts to better the community), General Electric, Laos, Cambodia, protest letters, requests for Congressional intervention, questions about HUAC, the Chicago 7, Vietnam, the Cold War, and President Richard Nixon.