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This series of correspondence dates predominately from the years 1936-1943 and contains approximately 2345 items of correspondence, consisting of letters to Kotschnig, carbons of many of his own letters, as well as third party letters which were sent to him. The correspondence documents the history of the International Student Service in the United States, its connection to the European Student Relief Fund, and its subsequent evolution into the World Student Service and the World Student Service Fund. The most substantial correspondent is Alfred E. Cohn (212 items), but the collection also includes correspondence with many of the individuals involved with these organizations: Edward Bradby, Margaret J. Brown, Joseph Cadden, André de Blonay, Clyde Eagleton, Roland A. Elliott, William G. Fletcher, Kenneth Holland, Ruth Hubbard, Alvin S. Johnson, Robert E. Lane, Joseph P. Lash, Charlotte Löhrig, Robert C. Mackie, Louise Morley, William Allan Neilson, Michael Pobers (Pobereszki), Harper W. Poulsen, Eliot D. Pratt, Trude W. Pratt, Wilmina Rowland, Max H. Schneebeli, Robert G. Spivack, Anne Wiggin and Arnold Wolfers.

This series contains correspondence (circa 4500 items) with family members, correspondence dealing with the Kotschnig family's immigration and naturalization process, employment, correspondence with colleagues, universities and organizations concerning general educational issues and educational reconstruction in post-war Germany, as well as correspondence concerning Kotschnig's publications. Noteworthy among the correspondents in this series are: Werner Bohnstedt, William G. Carr (Educational Policies Commission), Edna V. Cowell (World Federation of Education Associations), Betty Drury and Stephen Duggan (Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars), Rudolf Heberle, Henry W. Holmes, I. L. Kandel and Paul Monroe (World Federation of Education Associations; co-editors with Kotschnig of World Education), Grayson Kefauver (Liason Committee for International Education), Edward R. Murrow, James W. Parkes, Charles E. Payne, Reinhold Schairer (U.S. Committee on Educational Reconstruction), James T. Shotwell (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Ann C. Stewart, Stuart M. Stoke, John W. Studebaker, Frances A. Thomas (Commission to Study the Organization of Peace), Robert Ulich, Seth Wakeman, Harold Weston (Food for Freedom, Inc.), Howard E. Wilson, and George F. Zook (American Council on Education).

This sub-series contains correspondences with numerous relatives, including numerous members of the Friedländer, Bergmann, Haase and Lichtenstein families, most forced to flee Nazi Germany because of their Jewish heritage, eventually settling in the United States, England, Israel and Australia. Among the correspondence with friends included in this series, are lengthy correspondences spanning four or five decades with Irma and Erich Berndt, Paul and Käte Brün, Alfred and Charlotte Dresel, Leo and Anne Marie Grebler, Isa Gruner, Werner and Hanna Heider, Mario and Dorothee Iona, Paul and Regina Kägi, Robert M.W. and Benedicta Kempner, Robert and Herthi Liebknecht, Dyno and Mara Löwenstein, Adolf and Elisabeth Lüchinger, Hilde and Hardi Meisels, Hans and Käte Siegel.

This sub-series has been further sub-divided into two further divisions, with sub-series 2a containing the largest volume of correspondence in the collection.

This sub-section, which is comprised of 348 folders contains approx. 14,953 items of correspondence, is the largest section in the correspondence. Of special note in this section is the lengthy correspondence (over 500 letters) between Friedländer and John Otto Reinemann, 1928-1975, which continues with his widow, Hertha, 1975-1984. Correspondents in this section also include: Angelica Balabanoff, Renée (Ate) Barth and Minna Flake, Jeanne Bauer, Hertha Beese, Erna Blencke, Curt Bondy, Dora von Caemmerer, Kenneth R. Calkins, Madeline DeAntonio, Dorothy Dessau, Walter Fabian, Beverlee Filloy, Ossip and Lillian Flechtheim, Carl Frankenstein, Elisabeth Fricke, Alfred Korach George, Arthur Gottschalk, Ernest Hamburger, Christa Hasenclever, Arthur Hillman, Robert Cuba Jones, Marie Juchacz, Karl Kautsky, Ella Kay, René König, Hilde Richter Köster, Gisela Konopka, Stephan Leibfried, Lotte Lemke, Siegfried Marck, Käthe Mende, Rudolf Pense, Sofie Quast, Käthe Rawiel, Marion (Marid) Rive-Johansen, Emma Steiger and Paul Tillich.

The bulk of this sub-series contains the phone and address lists for the members of the NYRSC and its executive committee, yet there are also a few lists of delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention. These lists were handed out during meetings so that the members of these groups could remain in contact.

The Republican Organization of the State of New York gives lists of delegates and alternates to the State and National Committees. The Republican Organization of the State of New York is a quick reference guide that indicates the names of county chairs, the vote tallies for state and federal elections by county and the major resolutions passed by the State and National Committees each year. These would be excellent guides for anyone needing to find the name of an officer or the margin of votes by which an officer was elected. One could find similar uses for these sources of information as with the rolls of the State and National Committees.

These booklets provide a quick reference guide for the legislature of the State of New York. Listed in these booklets are the members of the state legislature and a list of the members of the standing committees of the senate. These lists give the dates of service, addresses, district served, and committees on which each member sat.

This section contains the main body of Paetel's correspondence with fellow writers and former youth movement leaders, and includes letters to and from: Stefan Andres, Max Barth, Artur von Behr, Ludwig Blanck-Conrady, Hans Friedrich Blunck, Rudolf Daur, Jean-Pierre des Coudres, Joseph E. Drexel, Charlotte Ehrke, Manfred George, Heinz Gollong, Artur Grosse, Heinz Gruber, Walter Hammer, Pablo Hesslein, Hans Jaeger, Ernst Jnger, Erich von Kahler, Joseph Kaskell, Kurt Kersten, Werner Kindt, Werner Kleinow, Richard Lagrange, Werner Lass, Ernst Niekisch, Heinz Orth, Udo Rukser, Hermann W. Schmid, Albert Theile, Paul Tillich, Max Wehling, Johannes Welke, and Karl August Wittfogel.

This subseries contains letters written to Paetel in response to his article entitled "Freunde im Ausland," published in the German newspaper Die Zeit (19 June 1947), and reprinted in Union Flchtlingsdient (September 1947), in which Paetel asked readers to write to him with descriptions of conditions in post-war Germany. Paetel later published many of the responses in issues of Deutsche Gegenwart.

Included in this subseries are correspondences pertaining to book publications (Beat. Eine Anthologie), edited periodicals (Deutsche Bltter, Deutsche Gegenwart, Deutschsprachiges Forum, Gesprchsfetzen), as well as correspondence with editors and publishers of newspapers for whom Paetel wrote.

The Administration subseries documents Norman Studer's day-to-day activities as the Director of the Downtown Community School. Included are Board of Trustee meeting minutes, a copy of the Downtown Community School by-laws, core curriculum notes, teacher's guides, admissions policy reports, correspondence to parents and staff members, and material related to interracial and intercultural education. In 1963, Studer invited a group of African American parents boycotting a segregated school in Engelwood, NJ to bring their 31 children to a Freedom School at the Downtown Community School so the children could continue their education durign the struggle.

The Activities subseries contains material produced by or involving the students of the Downtown Community School, as well as Norman Studer, beyond his administrative responsibilities. Materials include notes from field trips, graduation dramas, student writings, and Downtown Community School publications, the Downtowner and Scribbler. The Downtowner was an internally published periodical containing a calendar of events, an editorial from Studer, announcements, and student writings. The Scribbler differed in that it was solely composed of student writings from each grade level. This subseries is particularly strong in its representation of field trips sponsored by Studer, many of which were taken to the Catskill Mountains. The folders often include itineraries, curricular guides, local history and maps, as well as student reflections and drawings. Many of the Downtown Community School graduation dramas were predicated on the field trip experiences. Also of interest are a number of folders containing general student writings and drawings and a file on the successful 1965 efforts by the children to help save the historic Old Merchant's House in New York City from demolition.

The Administration subseries documents the functions of the director, Board of Trustees, and staff of Camp Woodland as they relate to the operation of the Camp. Materials include annual reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, litigation, counselor in training handbooks, as well as documents related to the Larkin Committee and an investigation of Norman Studer and Camp Woodland for possible subversive activities and ties to the Communist Party. The annual reports provide fiscal summary data related to the operation of the Camp, including, but not limited to, tuition costs, expenditures, operating costs, tax liability, fixed assets and accumulated depreciation, and accumulated funds. These reports were prepared by certified public accountants and record the fiscal state of Camp Woodland in great detail. The folder entitled "Board of Director's Dispute" documents an effort by three of Camp Woodland's founders and Board members - Mrs. Ferber, Mrs. Sydney, and Mrs. Abramson - to separate themselves, legally and financially, from the Camp. It is unclear what precipitated the dispute, but ultimately, it appears there were philosophical differences as well as divergent financial interests.

The record on appeal for Mateo v. State of New York, volumes 1-36.

The record on appeal for LaValle v. State of New York, volumes 1-33. This series also contains supplmental case material.

The record on appeal for McCoy v. State of New York, volumes 1-32.

The content of these records include correspondence and other forms of communication between Farbstein and his constituents.

This sub-series contains legislative materials such as bills, concurrent resolutions, and joint resolutions.

Documentation on certain foreign affairs is contained within this sub-series.

SUNY/TIAA, Pension options prior to adoption of TIAA-CREF, Pensions- Vesting, Albany Industrial Project (1996-1997)

CANA is an umbrella organization of active neighborhood groups, and associate group members, involved in such issues as the city budget, mayor's salary increases, Capital Plaza security, Common Council Procedures, Ethics Committee, a proposed "Floor Thru" zoning amendment to authorize multiple dwellings in certain neighborhoods, historic preservation, home occupation, community development, regulating business signs (the Key Bank sign controversy), and other city issues. The Albany city budget files include news clippings, correspondence, testimony before the city council by members of CANA, and city budget's. The files also include CANA minutes and newsletters.