News from the New York State Archives 
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New York State Canal System Images Now Available
The bulk of Holmes Hutchinson survey maps of the state canal system (1842-1843), as well as a canal images from the Division of Visual Instruction lantern slides are now available through the Digital Collections. These new additions join already digitized maps, plans, and drawings of the Erie Canal.
Posted October 30, 2009
State Archives Honors Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Archives Partnership Trust presented scholar of African American Studies, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., with the 2009 Empire State Archives and History Award on Monday, October 26 at The Egg, Center for Performing Arts. Dr. Gates was interviewed by noted Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer.
Posted October 30, 2009
Ensuring a Future for New York’s Past
New tools, information and resources related to the identification, preservation, and use of the New York’s historical materials can be found on the newly redesigned website for New York State Historical Records Board.
Posted October 30, 2009
Training Opportunities Available Across the State
Register online today for archives and records management workshops and webinars. All offerings are free and open to anyone interested in the subject, unless otherwise noted.
Posted October 30, 2009
State Archives offers new workshop: “Electronic Records Inventory”
Sign up for Electronic Records Inventory, a new workshop to help you inventory the growing volume of electronic records and develop a plan for managing them systematically. This pilot workshop will be held November 13 in West Seneca, NY.
Posted October 30, 2009
Thank you to our donors for helping to support the newly launched website - 9/11 Memory & History: What to Save and How
Thank you to The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc., The New York Times Company Foundation, Max W. Batzer and
John J. Jerome.
Posted October 30, 2009
State Archives Announces Student Research Awards Contest
The State Archives announces its twentieth annual Student Research Award contest encouraging grades 4-12 students to explore the wealth of historical records found in archives, libraries, and other historical community organizations throughout New York State. Entries must be created in the July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010 school year.
Posted October 30, 2009
The LGRMIF eGrants System is here
Attention local governments: learn more about making an LGRMIF grant application online. Register for your online access to apply for a 2010-2011 grant.
Posted October 15, 2009
State Archives offers new workshop: “Managing Your Historical Photographs”
Seats still available: sign up for Managing Your Historical Photographs, a new workshop to help you take physical and intellectual control of your photographs to ensure their long-term access and use, offered three times in October.
Posted October 15, 2009
State Archives presents the Region 5 (Central New York) Electronic Records Symposium
Register today for the Region 5 (Central New York) Electronic Records Symposium on October 21 in Clay, NY. This free symposium will cover a variety of topics about managing and preserving electronic records.
Posted October 15, 2009
Your History is New York's History - October is Archives Month in New York State
Download the 2009 poster and link to information about events being held around New York State in celebration of our archival heritage.
Posted October 15, 2009
9/11 Memory & History: What to Save and How
Do you have documents, photos, objects, or recordings of loved ones lost on 9/11 or tell the history of that tragic event? This website will help with the hard decisions of what to save for history, what to discard, and how to preserve them as a legacy for the future.
Posted October 15, 2009
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. speaks in Albany, NY
Nationally renowned scholar of African American studies, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will receive the Empire State Archives and History award in recognition for his work to advance the understanding and uses of history within our society.
Posted October 15, 2009
State Archives Participates in Bard Graduate Center Exhibit
The New York State Archives is pleased to participate in "Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick", an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center. The exhibit is presented at the Bard Graduate Center from September 18, 2009 till January 3, 2010.
Posted October 1, 2009
LGRMIF eGrants Online Application System is coming
Attention local governments: learn more about making an LGRMIF grant application online. The new system is expected to be available by October 1.
Posted October 1, 2009
State Archives offers new workshop: “Managing Your Historical Photographs”
Sign up for Managing Your Historical Photographs, a new workshop to help you take physical and intellectual control of your photographs to ensure their long-term access and use, offered three times in October.
Posted October 1, 2009
State Archives presents the Region 5 (Central New York) Electronic Records Symposium
On October 21, Region 5 will present a free day-long Electronic Records Symposium in Clay, NY (Onondaga County) covering a variety of topics about managing and preserving electronic records.
Posted October 1, 2009
State Archives Highlights its Bilingual Website in Recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month and the Start of the New School Year
The Electronic Schoolhouse/La Escuela Electrónica is a bilingual educational resource developed to examine the Latino experience in New York through photographs, letters, broadsides, flyers, and more dating from 1861 to the present.
Posted October 1, 2009
State Archives Announces Launch of Document Showcase
Document Showcase is a quarterly feature that uses records from the State Archives to investigate a historical topic providing historical background information, a link to educational activities for classroom use, and links to more information about the documents and the topic.
Posted October 1, 2009
Author Tom Lewis speaks on The Hudson: A History at the University at Albany
Taken from his book, The Hudson: A History, Professor Lewis will provide a grand retelling of the river’s past, featuring well-known and little-known stories of explorers, traders, soldiers, artists, politicians, writers, industrialists and environmental crusaders.
Posted September 10, 2009
Great Evenings in the Great Hall: Worker's Rights
Tony nominee Maria Tucci and prominent journalist Pete Hamill lead a cast of notables, including The Triangle Fire Remembrance Coalition, in celebrating America’s labor movement through the eyes of its most ardent advocates and opponents: Clara Lemlich, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones, and Andrew Carnegie in Workers’ Rights.
Posted September 10, 2009
Archives Partnership Trust sponsors Berenice Abbott program at State Museum
Bonnie Yochelson, the consulting curator for the New York State Museum’s Berenice Abbott exhibition, will present a talk and slide show on the Berenice Abbott exhibition at the New York State Museum.
Posted September 10, 2009
State Archives Slideshow Honors Workers
The workers of New York are being honored in celebration of Labor Day by the New York State Archives with a slideshow of images dating from the 1880s to the 1940s on their homepage.
Posted September 2, 2009
New Imaging Certification Requirement for Agencies
State agencies submitting records disposition schedules to the State Archives that propose to substitute imaged records for original records for retention purposes should now complete an Imaging Certification Statement.
Posted September 2, 2009
Training Opportunities Available Across the State
Records management workshops by State Archives’ staff are free and open to anyone interested, unless otherwise noted. Any interested in attending can register through the State Archives’ website.
Posted September 2, 2009
Bill and Veto Jackets for 1997-1999 added to Digital Collections
The State Archives recently added 1997-1999 Bill and Veto Jackets to its growing online resources. Digitized copies of legislative bill and veto “jackets” from 1997-2007 are available for download at no charge.
Posted September 2, 2009
Special Program at Chautauqua
On August 11, the Archives Partnership Trust and Chautauqua Institution Archives presents “The Meaning of Memory: How We Connect To our Past and Why”
Posted August 5, 2009
Research Grants Available at the New York State Archives
The New York State Archives and the Archives Partnership Trust announce the availability of awards for qualified applicants to pursue research using historical records in the New York State Archives.
Posted August 5, 2009
Governor Carey Photographs Digitized
Press Release - In an ongoing effort to make public records more accessible, the State Archives collaborated with former New York Governor Hugh L. Carey’s director of communications, William F. Snyder, and the Carey family to create an online digital collection of Carey photographs.
Posted July 14, 2009
New York State Archives’ Records in 1609 Exhibit at the State Museum
In celebration of the 2009 Hudson-Champlain Quadricentennial celebration, Dutch colonial records from the New York State Archives will be on display for the State Museum’s 1609 exhibition. The exhibit will run from Friday, July 3, 2009 through Sunday, March 7, 2010.
Posted July 14, 2009
Special Programs at Chautauqua
On July 28, the Archives Partnership Trust and Chautauqua Institution Archives present “A Lincoln Roundtable. Abraham Lincoln The President: War, Justice, Words, and Images.”
Posted July 14, 2009
First State Agency Records Management Exchange to Focus on Email
On July 30th, join the State Archives, Division of Budget, agency records managers and others interested in records management as we compare policies, procedures and strategies with each other. The topic for this first meeting is email retention and disposition policies and procedures.
Posted July 14, 2009
New Services for State Agencies Web Resource Unveiled
State agencies now have a central location for accessing publications, forms, events, and information about services provided by the State Archives.
Posted July 14, 2009
2000 and 2001 Bill and Veto Jackets added to Digital Collections
The State Archives recently added 2000 and 2001 Bill and Veto Jackets to its growing online resource. Digitized copies of legislative bill and veto “jackets” from 2000-2007 available for download at no charge.
Posted July 14, 2009
New WWII Records added to holdings
The State Archives recently acquired military service cards documenting New York National Guard service in the Second World War.
Posted July 14, 2009
Service Records document Philippine-American War and China’s Boxer Rebellion
The military service records of New Yorkers who fought in the U.S. Regular Army, Navy, and Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War (1898) also document New Yorkers’ service in the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) and the “Boxer Rebellion” in China (1899-1901).
Posted July 14, 2009