Research: Topics: Environment: Preliminary Guide to Environmental Sources
Preliminary Guide to Environmental Sources
Historical Records Repositories in New York State
State University of New York. Onondaga Community College. Coulter Library.
Syracuse, NY
- Onondaga Community College. Cooperative Extension. Records, 1970-1976.
.1 cubic ft.
Memos, papers, conference programs, articles, minutes, brochures, reports, and newsletters concerning environment, poverty, municipal planning and other programs of the Cooperative Extension.
Linking entry note: Forms part of Division of Community Services Records. - Onondaga Community College. Student clubs records, 1963-1982.
.8 cubic ft.
Memos, notices, and constitutions of student clubs such as Campus Ministry, Chess Club, Ecology Club, JAMAA (black students' club), Martial Arts Club, Nuclear Arms Education Group, Riding Club, Women in Technologies, as well as academic subject clubs.
Linking entry note: Forms part of: Onondaga Student Services Association Records.
State University of New York. SUNY Stony Brook. University Libraries. Special Collections Department. Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3323
- Binnian, Jacqueline Chadwick. Papers, 1960-1976, 1966-1976 (bulk)
4 cubic ft.
Suffolk County (N.Y.) resident and environmental activist who served as vice president of Action for the Preservation and Conservation of the North Shore of Long Island, Inc., was a member of the Town Of Huntington's Town Board Conservation Subcommittee, and was the Long Island spokesperson for the Council for Better Transportation Planning.
Correspondence, newsletters reports, clippings, pamphlets, broadsides, address lists, and government documents relating to participation in Action for the Preservation and Conservation of the North Shore of Long Island. This environmental action organization covered the towns of Oyster Bay, Huntington, Smithtown, and Brookhaven, N.Y.
- Clarke, Peter McFerrin, 1920-. Papers, 1962-1970.
2.95 cubic ft.
East Hampton, N.Y. resident active in the Sag Harbor Advisory Council, Southampthon Township Preservation Society, Southampton Town Conservation Commission, and the Preservation Society of the East End (which became a part of the Suffolk County Conservation Council in the 1970s)
Correspondence, minutes, clippings, drafts and notes relating to conservation and preservation of natural resources on the east end of Long Island. - Cooley, Arthur P., 1929-. Papers, 1963, 1967-1977, 1971-1977
(bulk)
3.2 cubic ft.
high school science teacher and environmental activist. Founding member of both the Brookhaven Town Natural Resources Committee and the Environmental Defense Fund.
Records relating to the founding and activities of the Brookhaven Town Natural Resources Committee. Correspondence, memoranda, news clippings, financial records, reports, and legal documents related to the founding and activities of the Environmental Defense Fund. - Environmental Defense Fund. Records, 1967-1988.
998.4 cubic ft.
A public-membership, non-profit, tax-exempt environmental and legal action organization of scientists, lawyers and concerned citizens. Its primary purpose is to provide a link between law and environmental science. Established in 1967, its earliest official headquarters were located in Stony Brook and East Setauket, N.Y.
Papers, correspondence, case files, legal briefs and pleadings, court exhibits and transcripts, minutes, memoranda, speeches, public statements, committee files, legal and scientific research notes, statistical information, published material, etc., documenting the establishment and growth of a national organization of attorneys, scientists, and economists dedicated to the protection of the environment. National Headquarters records are from the original offices in Stony Brook and East Setauket, N.Y., and offices in various locations in New York, N.Y.; Capitol Office records are from Washington, D.C.; Rocky Mountain office records are from Denver and Boulder, Colo., and California office records are from Berkeley and Oakland, Calif. Includes information on environmental issues of local and national significance. Papers of Arthur P. Cooley and Robert E. Smolker, founders and officers of the board of directors, are listed separately.
Unpublished finding aid for part of the collection. - Flatau, Adelaide. Papers, 1963-1983.
9 cubic ft.
Member of the Brookhaven (N.Y.) Conservation Advisory Council, the League of Women Voters of North Brookhaven, and political, environmental, and community activist.
Files, records, memoranda, and publications concerning the League of Women Voters of North Brookhaven, Brookhaven Conservation Advisory Council, Council on Environmental Quality, and Fire Island.
Finding aids: Unpublished finding aid. - Fletcher, Mary T., 1895?-. Papers, 1957-1976.
4.4 cubic ft.
High school biology teacher in Queens, N.Y. Member of the Seaford (N.Y.) Garden Club and the Baldwin Bird Club and an environmental activist.
Correspondence, reports, pamphlets, clippings, minutes, newsletters, and nature lists of a Nassau County, N.Y., amateur naturalist and environmentalist active in local bird and garden clubs. - Hochbrueckner, George J., 1938-. Papers, [ca.1975]-1984.
4.8 cubic ft.
New York assemblyman, 2nd district, Suffolk County, N.Y.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, news clippings, and office files of a Democratic Assemblyman. Files were maintained on such topics as the Long Island Lighting Company, the Southwest Sewer District, hazardous waste, and ferry service.
Finding aids: Unpublished finding aid. - Kane, Muriel and Julian. Papers.
5.2 cubic ft.
Mr. and Mrs. Kane have been involved in community activities, especially in Levittown and Great Neck, Long Island.
Correspondence, memoranda, and research files concerning public library affairs and environmental concerns in Levittown and Great Neck, as well as other locations in Nassau County and Long Island, New York.
Finding aid in repository. - League of Women Voters of North Brookhaven (N.Y.) Records, 1941-1975.
6.45 cubic ft.
A chapter of a national bipartisan political organization. Correspondence, committee files, administrative files, case files, financial files, publications, minutes, programs, bylaws, annual reports, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, clippings, pamphlets, and related materials. Issues include relations with the People's Republic of China, Fire Island National Seashore, Brookhaven town planning, Suffolk County planning, water resources and civil rights.
Finding aids: Unpublished finding aid. - Like, Irving. Papers, [ca.1963]-1986.
3.2 cubic ft.
Babylon, N.Y., attorney.
Legal documents, hearings, correspondence, reports and clippings relating to the environment, including the Lloyd Harbor Study Group's challenge to the construction of the Long Island Lighting Company's Nuclear Power Facility at Shoreham, N.Y., and the proposed construction of a nuclear facility at Jamesport, N.Y. Other concerns include the Fire Island National Seashore, the creation of a Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway, and litigation by Suffolk County, N.Y. against the Long Island Lighting Company.
Finding aids: Unpublished finding aid. - Like, Irving, collector. Long Island Power Authority records,
1976-1989.
11 cubic ft.
Board member, Long Island Power Authority, and attorney, Babylon, N.Y. Correspondence, files, legal briefs, newspaper clippings, testimony, and reports. Included are files on predecessor efforts, such as the Citizens Committee to Replace Lilco, Citizens Committee for a Long Island Power Authority, and the Nassau County Public Power Commission.
Finding aids: Unpublished list.
Subjects: Nuclear power plants -- New York (State) -- Shoreham. - Lloyd Harbor Study Group (N.Y.) Records, 1970-1976.
30.4 cubic ft.
Environmental action organization. Files documenting the intervention by the Lloyd Harbor Study Group in the Long Island Lighting Company's application to build a nuclear power facility in Shoreham, N.Y.
- Long Island Environmental Council (N.Y.). Records, 1969-1974.
4 cubic ft.
Environmental action, non-profit organization with both individual and corporate membership. Its stated goal was to preserve and promote a livable environment for Long Island. Founded in 1969 by Claire Stern, who served as executive director.
Correspondence, memoranda, telephone registers, newsletters, administrative files, and reading files.
Finding aids: Unpublished finding aid. - Mount Sinai Harbor Conservation League (N.Y.). Records, 1974-1975.
.4 cubic ft.
Environmental action organization founded by Daniel T. Grinnell, of Mount Sinai, N.Y. The League fought unsuccessfully to raise money to purchase land to prevent development. Correspondence, financial statements, contracts, legal documents, survey maps, newspaper clippings and other materials related to attempts to preserve a portion of land adjacent to Mount Sinai Harbor.
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973. Papers, [ca.1895-1965] ca.1895-ca.1965
(bulk)
3.35 cubic ft.
Naturalist, scientist and environmentalist.
Correspondence, typescripts, photographs, negatives, notebooks, journals, book reviews and slides concerning the worldwide travels and natural history studies of a Long Island (N.Y.) naturalist. - New York (State). Fact-Finding Panel on the Shoreham Nuclear
Power Facility. Records, [ca.1973]-1984, 1982-1983 (bulk)
12 cubic ft.
Dr. John H. Marburger, III, President of the State University of New York at Stony Brook served as panel chair. New York State Governor Mario Cuomo proposed the creation of the panel to "develop clearly derived, reliable, and objective information on the economic costs and safety" of this Long Island facility, owned by the Long Island Lighting Company.
Testimonies, minutes, reports, official transcripts, proceedings, correspondence, memoranda, statements, news releases, clippings, and audio recordings from the files of Dr. John H. Marburger.
Unpublished finding aid. - Preservation Society of the East End (Suffolk County, N.Y.).
Records, ca.1965-1975
3 cubic ft.
Notes: Eastern Long Island, N.Y., environmental action organization founded in 1965, merged into the Group for America's South Fork in 1975. Minute books and office records of an environmental group based in East Hampton, N.Y.
- Reid, Robert E. Papers, 1964-1976.
24 cubic ft.
Organization: Primarily alphabetically by subject.
Republican councilman, Town of Brookhaven, N.Y., and president of Shorewood Water Corporation. Reid was involved in water quality and waste disposal issues for Suffolk County.
Town council papers, including office files, correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, notes, pamphlets, clippings and memoranda. - Shope, Roger, collector. Papers, 1971-1975.
7.5 cubic ft.
Organization: Partial arrangement by format.
Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Citizen's Advisory Committee of the Long Island Sound Study of the New England River Basins Commission. The New England River Basins Commission was a federal/state planning commission composed of members from the six New England states and New York, as well as ten federal agencies and six interstate and regional agencies. It was a coordinating agency for water and related land resource regional planning. The Long Island Sound Regional Study was established to help appropriate state and local agencies plan and manage their coastal resources.
Files and publications, including correspondence, memoranda, drafts, reports, pamphlets, clippings, completed surveys, survey analyses, press releases and publications. - Shoreham Opponents' Coalition (Shoreham, N.Y.). Records, ca.1975-1988.
55 cubic ft.
Coalition of organizations opposed to the licensing and operation of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station (N.Y.) Nora Bredes was the Executive Director.
Files, reports, memoranda, legal briefs, and other documents submitted by all parties.
Finding aids: Unpublished finding aid. - Smolker, Robert Eliot, 1923-1985. Papers, ca.1970-1985.
9.8 cubic ft.
Professor of biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook; founder and board member, Environmental Defense fund. Personal files, and records relating to founding and leadership in the Environmental Defense Fund.
- Suffolk Scientists for Cleaner Power and a Safer Environment
(N.Y.). Records, 1969-1974.
.8 cubic ft.
Organization favoring nuclear power generation and the construction and licensing of the Long Island Lighting Company's Shoreham Nuclear Power Facility. Hearing briefs, statements, treasurer's records, etc.
- Turano, Frank, collector. Records, 1970-1984.
1.6 cubic ft.
Member, Islip Environmental Council. Islip Town Environmental Council minutes of meetings and miscellaneous records.
