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This series contains subject files from Bertram Podell's tenure in the New York State Assembly. The files cover a wide assortment of topics, including committee work, conservation, City University, education, New York State revenue, and gambling. Correspondence and news clippings are kept within the subject files.

This series contains material related to legislative bills. In addition to the bills, files contain news clippings and correspondence. The material in these files are from Bertram Podell's service in the New York State Assembly.

This collection contains records of locomotive engines built between 1861 and 1921 and used by the Great Western Railway.

The Henry S. Manley Papers contain materials related to Manley's legal career, research materials related to Native American issues (including material used for Manley's book The Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1784), and some of his personal papers.

This series contains briefs, court transcripts, evidence, testimony, and other materials from legal cases. Manley was involved in most, if not all, of these cases. The cases concern a number of topics, several of which were related to Native American issues. Other cases include Calmes, Becker, Zehler v. Lehnis, and Trzecieski v. The State of New York, in which a dairy farmer made a claim for financial compensation after losing part of his herd to bovine tuberculosis.

This collection contains a hand-corrected typescript of a novel later published in 1983, Tdische Anstsse.

James Sullivan was the principal of the Boy's High School in Brooklyn, New York, 1907-1916. The collection contains photographs compiled by Sullivan of the interiors of high school libraries in Albany, Buffalo, and New York City from 1916-1929. In 1940 the Department of Librarianship at the New York State College for Teachers (a predecessor of the Information Science program at the University at Albany) added photographs of high school libraries in Albany, Elmira, Glens Falls, and Malverne, as well as several school libraries in Detroit, Michigan.

Diaries and lecture notes of New York State Normal School graduate Jennie M. Schoonmaker, and the diary of her sister Lydia.

John E. Kingston of Westbury, Nassau County, NY was born in 1920. Kingston was commonly known as Jack Kingston. He was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly, 1960-1974 (Nassau County 3rd District 1960-1965, 16th District 1966, 17th District 1967-1972, 15th District 1973-1974); a district judge in New York, 1990-1994; and a Justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1995. Kingston died on May 5, 1996, with interment at Nassau Knolls Cemetery, Port Washington, Long Island, NY.

Joseph Murphy of Manhattan was a Republican candidate for New York State Senate (25th District) in 1956 and 1958.

Includes board minutes and reports for the Kendall and Hamlin School District No. 8, located in the area of Morton, Monroe County, New York.

The Lee N. Vedder Papers contain 79 scrapbooks documenting the local histories of Montgomery and Schenectady Counties in the early to mid 20th century; the history of the Vedder Family; local, national, and international news; and Mr. Vedder's domestic and international travels.