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Ed Bloch's 1984 campaign for Congress includes the press kit with endorsement letters, biographical information on the candidate, voting records of his opponent, press releases, campaign brochures, a series of "Bloch for NYS State Congress" newsletters, and news clippings regarding the election campaign.

Sheila Healy's 1987 campaign for Albany County Legislator for the 6th district includes one campaign brochure and seven 1-page newsletters on constituent services and campaign issues.

Nancy Burton's 1993 and 1997 campaign for City Comptroller includes campaign plans as well as press releases and news clippings from Nancy Burton during her 1993-1997 term as Comptroller. Electronic copies of the 2001 campaign website are available upon request.

These records document the general fundraising activities of NYSSAC. Consisting primarily of grant applications and related documents for funding of general expenses, they also include information on projects that were not funded and therefore did not generate any further records. Fiscal statistics, articles on NYSSAC activity and correspondence pertaining to fundraising are also found here. Specific projects' fundraising activities are documented in the sub-series relating to them. Prominent grantors include Chemical Bank, New York Foundation, and the Campaign for Human Development Foundation.

These records document the Intergenerational Unity Project, a project initiated by NYSSAC and funded primarily by a New York Foundation Grant. The aim of the project was to bridge the gaps between youth activists and senior activists in an attempt to forge a single voice. Records consist of grant applications and proposals, correspondence, and membership campaign material.

These records document administrative work associated with managing and running the organization. They include a variety of materials, including office leases, fiscal records, personnel files and several photographs of Bonnie Ray at public events.

This subseries contains records from the many progressive or leftist political efforts which Michelle Crone was involved with in some way. Unlike the remainder of the Activism series, Michelle Crone may not have been directly involved in organizing these efforts.

This subseries contains material produced by social activism efforts that involved Michelle Crone and concerned Albany and the Capital District.

This subseries contains material that concerns Michelle Crone's social and political activism at the New York State level, including correspondence, news clippings, and some administrative material.

This series contains a variety of internal materials and published reports created by the State Association of Towns. It includes a series of extensive formal memoranda to the Governor regarding Assembly and Senate bills affecting town law and a 1942 guide for local officials titled The Town Budget System. The series is organized alphabetically by subject.

This series contains a file of pamphlet material collected by the State Association of Towns. It includes both pamphlets published by the Association and pamphlets received from other sources. The pamphlets deal with subjects related to town law and New York State finances. They date primarily from the 1930s but include some older material, such as an 1881 pamphlet on town officer salaries (Box 2, Folder 28.) The series is organized according to the Association's organizational system, which assigned a number to each pamphlet. Note that this series is incomplete.

This subseries contains a range of subject files which document Moore's activities as Lieutenant Governor. They are arranged alphabetically by subject and include the records of Moore's 1950 campaign for the office, materials related to various studies conducted by the Lieutenant Governor's Office, an extensive file of correspondence related to Moore's 1953 resignation from office, and numerous files on individual subjects.

The formation and behavior of snow and ice crystals were a lifelong interest of Schaefer's, and in his time at General Electric he was able to focus on the subject during the World War II years as ice related to the safety of U.S. Air Force planes. Schaefer and Irving Langmuir's interest in that topic grew as a result of their World War II-era contract work with the military, and the experiments they conducted after the war's end led directly to their Project Cirrus contract in 1947—an undertaking so extensive that their work in that area merited its own series in this collection. Much of their foundational work in snow and ice composition and behavior was grounded in observations and experiments conducted on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Schaefer discovered during this time that ice crystals and snowflakes could be captured and observed using Formvar plastic. Using this method, he documented very specific data about ice and snow before creating some of the first replicas of specific snowflake shapes. The work of Schaefer and his colleagues regarding ice research includes handwritten notes, drawings, charts, photographs, reports, and correspondence specific to ice, snow, and Mount Washington.

The inspiration for Schaefer's work with cloud seeding began during his experiments with Irving Langmuir during World War II. At that time they were under contract with the military for other weather-related reasons, but their research led them to wonder about the possibilities of controlling weather beyond military needs. Schaefer accomplished some of his most important foundational work with cloud seeding in 1946, before General Electric joined in another contract with the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Army Signal Corps. These records document some of Schaefer's initial work with cloud seeding, before the official birth of Project Cirrus. Researchers will also find about a dozen files on Project Blowdown, a cloud seeding operation conducted in Honduras to aid the United Fruit Company.

This subseries is comprised of various research data retained by Schaefer that were not filed specifically with cloud seeding or ice and snow research. These are the notes, graphs, drawings, and photographs of experiments that supported later discoveries in his larger projects. Notes and photos in this subseries include subjects such as surface tension, monomolecular layers, smoke generation, fog, uses of calgon, and electron microscopy. Also of note are his observations on precipitation and precipitation static, which he worked on with Irving Langmuir during World War II. While the bulk of the notes are Schaefer's own, there are also papers that belonged to Langmuir and various other scientists who shared observations with Schaefer.

This subseries contains drafts and reprints of journal articles written by Bedau.

This subseries contains drafts and reprints of shorter published works written by Bedau.

This subseries contains drafts of works by Bedau and hand written notes which he may or may not have later published.

This subseries documents ASLF's projects in the Midwest states, including: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In the Midwest ASLF sought to clean up the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River region. The case against Koch Refining Co. in Minnesota, removed a major source of toxins in the Mississippi River and ensured compliance for many years afterwards. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, at the request of local activists ASLF researched DMRs and discovered almost a quarter of Fort Wayne industries' had a history of CWA violations.

This subseries documents ASLF's projects in the Northeast states, including: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The majority of the northeast projects are from ASLF's home state of New York. The first ever Right-to-Know Act citizen suit was settled in 1990 by ASLF in a landmark settlement involving ARO Corporation, located in Buffalo. In Syracuse, Onondaga Lake, which was considered one of the most polluted lakes in the United States during the late 1980s, was a focus of ASLF efforts. ASLF settled several cases, including one against Bristol Meyers Squib, to reduce pollutions discharged in to the lake and remediate damages.

This subseries documents ASLF's projects in the Southeast states, including: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.