Research: Topics: Environment: Preliminary Guide to Environmental Sources
Preliminary Guide to Environmental Sources
Federal Government Repositories In New York State
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Hyde Park, N.Y.
- Brown, Nelson Courtlandt, 1885-. Papers, 1930-1951.
ca. .5 cubic ft.
Professor at New York State College of Forestry, Brown advised Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt on the use of forested land on the Rooosevelt estate.
Correspondence and statistical data concerning forestation projects on the Roosevelt estate; correspondence with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Foundation; and Brown's reminiscences of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Hudson River Conservation Society. Records, 1936-1979.
24 linear ft.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
The society was incorporated in 1936 for the purpose of protecting and maintaining the beauties of the Hudson Valley, and was sparked by destructive quarrying at High Tor and on Mt. Taurus.
Correspondence, office records, minutes, reports, memoranda, newsletters, opinion polls, financial records, scrapbooks, and other printed materials relating to the founding and continuing work of the Society which included purchase of property to be preserved, legislation, fund raising, educational activities, investigations, surveys, beautification plans for waterfront areas, water and air pollution concerns, opposition to roads, and other conservation issues. Correspondents include Mr. and Mrs. William Church Osborn, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Osborn, Margaret Gillmore, Mrs. Erastus Corning II, Theodore Cornum, Mrs. John Donaldson, Mrs. Chester B. Glunt, Elmer S. Hader, Ruth G. Hardy, Rhoda Hinkley Hunt, Mrs. Wallace B. Lydecker, George W. Perkins, Calvin W. Stillman, Mrs. Frank Washburn, Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, Dudley B. Martin, A. Scott Warthin, Jr., and John Winthrop Aldrich.
Access restriction: Restricted in part.
Finding aids: Folder list.
Subject: Environmental education--New York (State)
- Howe, Louis McHenry, 1871-1936. Files, 1912-1936.
42 linear ft.
Howe was assistant and personal secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning with his 1912 campaign for re-election to the Senate. Howe managed Roosevelt's gubernatorial campaigns and acted as secretary and advisor during Roosevelt's two terms as New York State Governor, and was Chief Advisor to the President, 1933-1936.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, processed material, press releases, speeches, drafts of articles, and clippings from his official duties with Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-1921; secretary to Roosevelt, 1928-1932, concerning campaigns, Democratic Party, and New York State prisons; and Secretary to the President, 1933-1936, concerning anti-lynching bills, Civilian Conservation Corps, Democratic National Committee, federal jobs, the press, subsistence housing, various New Deal agencies, and other subjects. Also, personal papers consisting of correspondence, articles, radio scripts, speech drafts, campaign materials, and other items, 1912-1936, which primarily concern his work or public affairs; correspondence of his wife Grace H. Howe relating to his last illness and death, 1931-1936; and clippings, articles, and some correspondence collected by Lela Stiles, Howe's secretary, primarily relating to his career and his death. Finding aids: Folder list.
- Mauhs, Sharon J., 1901-1964. Papers, 1948-1964.
25 linear ft.
Arrangement: Series.
Cobleskill, N.Y. lawyer; New York State Assemblyman,1948-1952; State Conservation Commissioner, 1956-1958; chairman of the Schoharie County Democratic Committee, 1944-1956.
Memoranda, correspondence, speeches, reports, news releases, and clippings primarily from his service as State Conservation Commissioner. Subjects include the Adirondacks, air pollution, fish and game associations, budgets, camping, Chautauqua Lake, Delaware River Basin, forest management, gypsy moth, Lake George, Lake Ontario State Parkway, other state agencies, the Northway (Interstate 87), recreation, and other New York conservation matters. Also includes a few papers relating to his work as New York State Assemblyman, 1948-1952, and political activities in Schoharie County, 1959-1964.
Access restriction: Restricted in part.
Finding aids: Folder list.
- New York (State). Governor (1929-1932 : Roosevelt). Records,
1929-1932.
218 microfilm reels.
Reproduction note: Microfilm. Originals are at New York State Archives, Albany, N.Y.
Franklin D. Roosevelt served two consecutive terms as Governor of New York, from January 1, 1929 to January 1, 1933.Official records relating to the administration of New York consisting of correspondence, memoranda, speeches, appointment books, invitations, statements, reports, press releases, and newspaper clippings arranged alphabetically by correspondent or agency with a special file concerning the investigation and hearing on Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, 1931-1932. Other subjects include the St. Lawrence River power development, the New York State Crime Commission, patronage, politics, labor problems, charities, conservation, mental hygiene, public works, and banking legislation. Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Sol Bloom, Royal S. Copeland, James M. Curley, George Dern, James A. Farley, Edward J. Flynn, Herbert Hoover, Harry L. Hopkins, Louis McHenry Howe, Patrick Hurley, Lewis E. Lawes, Herbert H. Lehman, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Robert Moses, Herbert C. Pell, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, Alfred E. Smith, Henry L. Stimson, Norman Thomas, Robert F. Wagner, James J. Walker, Stephen S. Wise, and Owen D. Young.
Finding aids: Folder list. - Olds, Leland, 1890-1960. Papers, [ca. 1848]-1960, 1923-1960 (bulk)
132 linear ft.
Economist. Olds was interested in labor, development of public electric power, and ecology. He served in several government posts including the Federal Power Commission, 1939-1949.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, studies, plans and proposals, clippings, speeches, articles, notebooks, desk diaries, press releases, and other materials, 1923-1960, relating to his work with the Federal Power Commission, 1939-1960, concerning his appointment hearings, wartime activities, court cases, river basin studies, power market surveys, and the natural gas industry; with the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, 1950-1951; with the New England-New York Inter-Agency Committee, 1951-1960, concerning survey of land and water resources; with the Public Affairs Institute, 1953-1959, concerning their research studies on atomic energy, power project at Hell's Canyon, and dispute involving Dixon-Yates Company; with the Energy Research Associates, 1954-1961, concerning "giant power" companies and a study of South Dakota rates; and with the Saint Lawrence Advisory Commission, 1939-1953, concerning the Seaway Project and hydroelectric power.
Other agencies or subjects include the Federated Press (labor news service), New York State Public Service Commission, the New York City taxicab industry, Power Authority of the State of New York, American Labor Party, League for Industrial Democracy, his work with Mary Harriman Rumsey and others concerning cooperative ventures, the Tennessee Valley Authority, study commissioned by President Roosevelt of consumer cooperatives in British Isles and Scandanavia (1937), public utility regulation, regional development of public power, conservation, and a national water policy. Family papers include correspondence, wills, military papers and academic papers of his grandparents Mary P. Adams and Joseph Daniels Leland, his parents George D. Olds (President of Amherst College) and Marion Olds, his wife Maud, and their children, ca. 1848-1960.
Access restriction: Restricted in part.Finding aids: Series description, folder list, indexes to two of the series.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Papers as
New York State Senator, 1910-1913.
14 linear ft
Roosevelt was State Senator from the 26th District, comprising Columbia, Dutchess, and Putnam Counties, during which he was Chairman of the Forest, Fish, and Game Committee and the Agriculture Committee. Roosevelt was the sponsor of 75 legislative bills and one of the leaders of the anti-Tammany Hall fight.
Correspondence, a diary, original drafts and copies of speeches, invitations, legislative proposals, clippings, pamphlets, campaign materials, and other related papers concerning Roosevelt's career in the New York State Senate. Subjects include his campaigns, support for Woodrow Wilson at the Democratic National Convention, his legislative bills on conservation, election reform, civil service reform, the Democratic "insurgency" against the influence of Tammany Hall, political patronage, local issues and concerns of constituents, labor issues, women's suffrage, the New York City Charter, agriculture, child labor, income tax amendment, liquor control, railroads, and other political and social reform issues. The diary covers the period from January 1-3, 1911 and describes his Albany residence, the Governor's inaugural ceremonies, the first Democratic caucus, and his comments on Democratic leadership and party problems.
Finding aids: Unpublished guide with index.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Papers pertaining
to family, business and personal affairs, 1882-1945.
37 linear ft.
Papers concern the family, business, philanthropic, intellectual, and other personal interests of Roosevelt distinct from his political and official affairs; the majority date from 1882-1910 and 1920-1928. Includes correspondence, school records, law briefs, publications of organizations, genealogical charts, drafts of articles and speeches, bank statements, scrapbooks, and clippings. Subject file covers his business interests; philanthropic and civic activities with the Boy Scouts, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Taconic State Park Commission, Vassar College, Fifth Avenue Hospital, the Navy Club New York, and the Seamen's Church Institute of New York; forestry and farming on the Roosevelt estate; Roosevelt as a local historian; Harvard University; houseboat trips; summer home at Campobello; and his manuscript collecting activities. Correspondence files date from 1904-1928 and include letters from William Jennings Bryan, Richard E. Byrd, James M. Cox, Josephus Daniels, Louis McHenry Howe, Marguerite A. LeHand, William Gibbs McAdoo, Langdon P. Marvin, Marvin H. McIntyre, D. Basil O'Connor, William Gorham Rice, Hall Roosevelt, and Alfred E. Smith.
Finding aids: Folder list. - Scenic Hudson (Organization). Records relating to the Storm King
case, 1963-1981.
74 linear ft.
Founded in 1963 and first known as Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference.
Correspondence, legal documents, transcripts of hearings, agenda and minutes of meetings, memoranda, studies, reports, publicity materials, printed matter, clippings, photographs, and audio-visual materials relating to the successful efforts of the group to block the construction of a plant by the Consolidated Edison Company at Storm King Mountain near Cornwall, N.Y. Individuals involved included Carl L. Carmer (1893-1976), Leo O. Rothchild, Alexander Saunders, Louis Pierre Ledoux, and Helen Sherwood.Finding aids: Folder list.
- Welch, Fay. Correspondence, 1940.
ca. 50 items.
Professor of Forestry, New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse.
Correspondence with leading conservationists concerning Welch's opposition to U.S. Senate Bill 3840 which would have established an Adirondack National Recreational Area in New York, 1940.