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Skaneateles Lake
- Madison-Bouckville Antiques Show
Arts
- Artist Colonies: Chautauqua, Cragsmoor; Byrdcliffe; Onteora; Millay; Pakatakan (Arkville) founded by Peter Hoffman circa 1886; Keramic Studio (Syracuse) founded by Adelaide Alsop Robineau; Maverick; Yaddo, Roycroft
- Index of Hudson River School Painters - Desmond-Fish Library, Garrison. (Paintings include View of Cold Spring, Picnic on the Hudson, View From West Point.)
- Lake Placid Center for the Arts
- Millay Colony for the Arts - Austerlitz
- New York Council for the Humanities
- New York Film and Video Council
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- New York State Council on the Arts
- Sandra J. Hildreth - Artist specializing in rural and wilderness landscapes in watercolor and oil, primarily of New York State. Hildreth is also an art teacher at the Madrid-Waddington Central School in Madrid, New York, and an Adjunct Professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton. Among her Most Recent Works is Bakers Clearing, North Woods Club, an oil painting based on a "visit to the North Woods Club, near Minerva, NY, where Winslow Homer spent many of his summers. This same view was painted by Eliphalet Terry, the artist who brought Homer to Bakers Farm in 1859." Other works include Oil Paintings, Rural Landscapes (1997), Wilderness Series (1997), More Wilderness Paintings (1998), Mandala Paintings, Watercolor Paintings, More Watercolors and Adirondack Landscape Paintings. In 1997 Hildreth received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue her interest in the painters of the Hudson River School.
Books and Publishers
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America - In Find a Bookseller you can browse by state or zip code.
- Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany bookstore has a good collection of New York State Regional Books.
- Book Sale Finder: New York - Gives dates and other details about used book sales run by libraries and non-profit groups
- Hope Farm Press - Regional history publisher has over over 2000 books on all regions of New York State.
- Purple Mountain Press - Hard-to-find books about New York State.
- Syracuse University Press
Business
- Buffalo First
- Business Record - See News to Use
- Business Council of New York State - Among its reports is Micro areas in New York move up in national rankings of economic strength
, September 11, 2006. "Areas centered in Corning, Cortland, Plattsburgh, Seneca Falls and Watertown-Fort Drum each moved up more than 100 places in the 2006 rankings of 577 micropolitan areas nationwide, compared to their 2004 positions." See also Policom's Micropolitan Statistical Areas
Economic Strength Ranking
- Capital District Business Review - Provides an archive of back issues.
- Crain's New York Business
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York - The Empire State Manufacturing Survey is a monthly survey of manufacturers in New York State conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- New York State Banking Department - Provides information on Empire State Development for Small Business and Community Development. Loans are described on the Empire State Development (ESD) and New York State Department of Economic Development page.
- New York State Department of State - With a searchable Index of Licensees and Registrants for Alarm Installer, Armored Car Carrier, Barber, Hearing Aid Dispenser, Notary Public, Real Estate Appraiser, Real Estate Branch Office, Real Estate Salesperson, Watch, Guard, & Patrol Agency, Appearance Enhancement, Armored Car Guard, Central Dispatch Facility, Hearing Aid Dispenser Business, Private Investigator, Real Estate Associate Broker, Real Estate Broker and Security Guard. They also have a searchable Corporation and Business Entity Database which includes business and not for profit corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships, as well as other miscellaneous businesses.
- NYS Department of State Corporation and Business Entity Database
- New York State Department of Taxation and Finance - With access to printable Forms & Instructions, including Current Year Income Tax Forms in PDF format, requiring the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- New York State Office of General Services - Sections include Site Map, State Telephone Directory, the Empire State Builder, "a weekly listing of bid results, plan purchases, upcoming bid openings, consultant opportunities, and plans and specs available for purchase," News Releases, Federal Surplus Property, Procurement Services, and Surplus Real Property.
- New York State Office of Real Property Services - Has Municipal Profiles.
- New York State Small Business Development Center - With Office Locations.
- New York State Statistics - Provides access to the New York State Statistical Yearbook which " offers a wide array of statistical data on the economy, finances, and demography of New York State."
- New York State's Unclaimed Funds - New York State Office of the State Comptroller. "How to avoid having your money turned over to the State and how to get it back if it is abandoned." See States Scooping Up Assets From Millions of Americans: 'Unclaimed Property' Fattens Public Coffers by Scott Thurm and Pui-Wing Tam, Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2008.
Canals
- Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives
- History New York State Canals: Together with Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada - Full text of the 1906 book by Nobel E. Whitford. Provided by the Department of History at the University of Rochester, the site has a valuable Erie Canal Bibliography with a number of full-text resources. Additional texts include History of the Barge Canal of New York State (1921) by Nobel E. Whitford, Hydrology and Environmental Aspects of Erie Canal (1817-99) by By W.B. Langbein, A Treatise On the Improvement of Canal Navigation (1796 ) by Robert Fulton and Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal (1852) by Jacob Abbott.
- New York State Canal System - Site highlights include
site map,
news,
History,
Maps,
Boating Information and
canal-related links.
Hudson Valley
- Caravela Restaurant - Tarrytown. Portuguese & Brazilian cuisine. (914-631-1863)
- Hudson Antiques Dealers Association
- Hunter Mountain - With information on Outdoor Activities
- Hudson River Valley Greenway Trail System
- Kykuit - Former John D. Rockefeller Jr. estate built in 1905, the Gardens were designed by William Welles Bosworth.
- Lodge at Emerson Place
- Mid-Hudson Library System Public Library Catalog
- Minnewaska Lodge - Gardiner
- Mohonk Mountain House - New Paltz. Non-guests can call 845-256-2056 to make dinner reservations (jacket required).
- Nature Conservancy: New York - Has an Eastern New York Chapter
- New York-New Jersey Trail Conference - Has information on the Long Path and has a Hike of the Week section. Provides full-text access to Trailwalker newletter back to 1999.
- New York State Parks
- Minnewaska State Park Preserve
- Oquaga Creek State Park
- Olana
- Scenic Hudson
- Trailwalker - Newsletter of the New York New Jersey Trail Conference is available in pdf format back to 1998 (with a few gaps.)
- Trust for Public Land - See New York State Project Highlights
- Wallkill Valley Rail Trail
Colleges & Universities
- Association of Proprietary Colleges - Represents over 35 degree-granting institutions in New York State providing professional education for students interested in business administration, accounting, computer programming and technology, general and specialized management, marketing, and health services, as well as for careers in such fields as visual arts, merchandising and hospitality. With Member List.
- Commission on Independent Colleges (CICU) - "Voluntary consortium of more than 100 non-profit institutions of higher education, is the coordinating organization and public policy forum of the Independent Sector of the University of the State of New York (USNY)."
- Higher Education Services Corporation - Provides students and families with access to financial aid in New York State. Paying for College is a comprehensive list of state, federal and private grants, loans and scholarships, including the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) which provides a list of New York school codes and a downloadable TAP Change form.
- New York State Higher Education Services Corporation - With a Searchable Lender Directory and a School Codes Search.
- New York's College Savings Program
- State University of New York
- State University of New York Librarians Association (SUNYLA) - Provides links to SUNY Library Web Sites.
- SUNY Empire State College
- SUNY Learning Network
Employment
- New York State Department of Civil Service - Provides information on Civil Service Examinations, with Applications available online, and Jobs in Demand.
- New York State Department of Labor
- SUNY Employment
- Western New York Jobs - Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Jamestown
- Workforce Development in New York State
Environment
- Adirondack Council
- American Whitewater - Has sections on New York Rivers.
- Audubon in New York - With links to local chapters.
- EPA Global Warming: Climate Change and New York
- Berkshire Bird Paradise - Peter J. Dubacher's bird sanctuary for disabled and unwanted birds in Petersburgh, New York.
- Catskill Center - Arkville
- Hudson River Valley Greenway
- Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
- Institute of Ecosystem Studies - Millbrook
- League of Conservation Voters - With annual National Environmental Scorecards on how Congress votes on the environment.
- National Estuarine Research Reserve System - The Hudson River Reserve is a network of four coastal wetlands located along 100 miles of the Hudson Estuary encompassing 4,838 acres: Stockport Flats, Tivoli Bay, Piermont Marsh and Iona Island.
- Nature Conservancy
- New York Energy Smart
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation - Created in 1970 during the governorship of Nelson Rockefeller (and prior to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency). There is a Site Index, DEC Directories, access to the quarterly newsletter New York State Environment, press releases, announcements, and and texts of environmental regulations. The list of Regional Offices will lead you to information abou the Eastern Adirondacks (Region 5) and the Western Adirondacks (Region 6). In 1999 New York State purchased 144,300 acres of land held by Champion International in the northwestern Adirondacks. The Champion Land consists of the Croghan Tract/Northern Flow River Area (DEC Lowville Office - 315-376-3521. See also "Lassiter Easement" and "Watson's East Triangle Wild Forest"), Santa Clara and Tooley Pond Tracts. You can read more about the Champion Lands at the site of the Adirondack Mountain Club.
- New York Flora Atlas (NYFA)
- "Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State." Lists plants by county.
- New York State Important Bird Areas - Aububon Society site allows you to locate important bird habitats by Region or from a Name.
- New York State Invasive Species Task Force - Provides list of Members
- New York State Public Service Commission - With information on Utilities We Regulate.
- New York Water Environment Association
- Northeast Sustainable Energy Association - Provides information on the National Solar Home Tour in New York.
- Open Space Institute
- Organization of Biological Field Stations - With links to Field Stations in New York. http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_env_guide_8.shtml
- Preliminary Guide To Environmental Documentary Sources in New York State - New York State Archives
- Soil and Water Conservation Society - Empire State Chapter
- Trust for Public Land
- U.S. Geological Survey in New York - With data on acid rain, earthquakes and groundwater including Near-Real-Time Surface-Water Data.
- United States Army Corps of Engineers - Includes the New York District and the Buffalo District.
- Wilderness Society
Events
- Chautauqua Institution - Located in Jamestown, Chautaqua offers personal enrichment for all ages. "Over 2,000 events each season include: symphony, opera, chamber music, visual arts, dance, theater, popular entertainment, open-enrollment classes, programming for young people."
- Empire State Games
- Madison-Bouckville Antiques Show - Held annually in August.
- New York State Fair - Official site for the State Fair, held annually in Syracuse.
Farming & Agriculture
- Agricultural Marketing Service - Has a Farmers Market section with information on over 200 New York Farmers Markets
- Environmental Working Group - Their Farm Subsidy Database, 1996-2000 shows where farm subsidies go (search by name, county, city or zipcode).
- Historic Fruit Images - Images of fruit from U. P. Hedrick's Small Fruits of New York, published by the New York State Agricultureal Experiment Station in 1925. It has become a classic reference for those working with cultivated varieties of berries.
- New York Apple Association
- New York Farm Bureau
- New York State Agricultural Experiment Station - Geneva
- New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
- New York State Farm Service Agency
- New York State Farmstead and Artisan Cheese Makers Guild - Makers with web sites include:
- Coach Farm - Pine Plains
- Catapano Dairy - Peconic
- Finger Lakes Dexter Creamery - King Ferry
- Hawthorne Valley Farm - Ghent
- Old Chatham Sheepherding Company - Old Chatham
- Sherman Hill Farmstead - Franklin
- Spout Creek Farm - Poughkeepsie
- Sunset View Creamery - Odessa
- Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA-NY)
Gateways
- Making of New York - "Cooperative effort by New York's 11 Comprehensive Research Libraries (NYCRL) to create a New York State Digital Library." Has a collection of New York links organized by subject, including History, People, Museums, Archives & Historical Societies, Science & Technology and Libraries and Digital Resources Centers.
- Yahoo! - New York - Also offers sections on New York: Cities and New York: Counties and Regions.
- Western New York Regional Information Network
Genealogy
- Albany and Eastern New York Genealogy - "Geographical focus is Albany, NY and surrounding counties ( Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, Greene, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, and a little of Herkimer. Also there is a little of Berkshire Co., MA, parts of which were considered to be in NY at one time.)"
- Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients - Provided by NYGenWeb
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. See Library of Congress press release - Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program.
- Guide to Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Goshen Public Library
- Making of America - Digital library of primary sources consists of books and journal volumes between 1850 and 1877. The University of Michigan "collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." Although searching is a bit challenging this is an excellent resource for genealogical research. Here are some sample titles:
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Early wills of Westchester County, New York, from 1664 to 1784: also the genealogy of "The Havilands" of Westchester County, and descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley families) with genealogical and historical notes (1898), William S. Pelletreau, Frederick Haviland, New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County), et al.
Revised history of Harlem (City of New York): its origin and early annals, prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices of its founders before emigration.: Also, sketches of numerous families, and the recovered history of the land-titles (1904) ... By James Riker. Good resource for locating genealogical information on early settlers in New York. For example, the appendix has an extended article on the Bogert family on pages 447-475.- NYGenWeb - Rich resource for New York genealogy. With links to County Sites.
- New York State Newspaper Project - "Identifying, describing, preserving, and making available to researchers the significant newspapers in all communities in New York State since the first publication in 1725."
- Political Graveyard: Index to Cemeteries in New York - Lawrence Kestenbaum
- Upstate New York State Genealogy - Chris Andrle
- Yates County New York: Office of Public History - Provides some valuable research resources.
Government
- Center for Technology in Government - Has List of Projects and a number of online Publications.
- Centers for Disease Control CDC Web Search - Allows you to search individual state health departments.
- Contacting the Congress - Provides names, email addresses, urls, and phone numbers for senators from New York.
- Empirepage.com - Chris Chichester's site has news and information on New York politics and government.
- Legislative Gazette - The weekly newspaper of New York state government. Also available via the New York State Library (Scanned New York State Agency Documents) from 1995 to 2003.
- New York County Clerks
- New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials
- New York State Department of State - With Site Index.
- New York State Assembly - Provides Press Releases, Legislative Reports, Committee Reports, Report of the Fiscal Committees on the Executive Budget (also known as the Green Book), a Member Directory, New York State Consolidated Laws (4/1/96) and a Bill search option.
- New York State Association of Counties.
- New York State Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness - "Tasked with identifying barriers to more efficient local government through merger, consolidation and or regionalization of services, and partnerships that enable localities to provide services more efficiently." They have commissioned studies by the Center for Governmental Research in Rochester, to identify ways local governments can reduce costs and improve services. See also Shared Municipal Services Incentive Program and 2007-2008 Aid and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM). Among the reports available:
- Developing Intermunicipal Arrangements for Highway Services: A Guide for Local Government Officials, March 2008 (64pp.)
- New York State Constitution
- New York State Consumer Protection Board - With information on the “Do Not Call” telemarketing registry bill. There is a Do Not Call Registry with an online registration form and a Do Not Call Complaint Form (pdf file).
- New York State Department of Motor Vehicles - How to get a license, renew your license or registration and purchase plates online.
- New York State Government
- New York State Government Information Locator - Browse by subject. With links to Executive Branch Agencies, Legislative Resources and New York State Government Resources on the Internet.
- New York State Governor - George E. Pataki
- New York State Office of Real Property Services - Has Municipal Profiles.
- New York State Office of the Professions - New York State Education Department site has on-line verification and licensing information for 610,000 professionals along with any disciplinary action. They are responsible for the regulation of 38 Professions. In the Online Verification Searches you can search in the following areas: Licensees by name, Licensees by license number, Pharmacy Establishments and Professional Discipline Actions.
- New York State Public Service Commission
- New York State Register - Tables of Content only, in pdf format. Issued every Wednesday by the New York State Department of State. (New York State Register 2001 is also available.)
- New York State Senate - Provides a Senate District Lookup, which allows you to look up senators by zip code, Press Releases, Legislative Highlights, and a Bill search. Live audio of Senate chamber session is broadcast over the internet in RealAudio format.
- New York Temporary State Commission of Lobbying On-Lne Lobbyist Registration System
- Office of New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo
- Official City Sites: New York - Provides links to official city and county home pages.
- Project Sunlight
- Browse Bills, Elected Officials, Lobbyists and Member Items.
- Rockefeller Institute of Government - Public policy research arm of the State University of New York.
- Senator Charles E. Schumer
- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Healthcare
- Healthcare Association of New York State - Provides a useful Resource Locator with over 1,000 links to other sites of interest. The Facility Locator locates health care facilities by county.
- New York On-Line Access to Health (NOAH) - "Seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased." Joint project of the City University of New York, the Metropolitan New York Library Council, the New York Academy of Medicine and the New York Public Library. Available in English and Spanish.
- New York State Department of Health - Highlights include Information for Researchers, (with statistics on AIDS and Cancer), Press Releases and Vital Records.
- New York State Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System {SPARCS) - Patient data system produces Information Bulletins and Annual Reports.
- Video Health Information Project - Collection, developed by the Mid-Hudson Library System, of over 2000 health-related videotapes available for loan in New York State
History
- Alvan Stewart Papers - Approximately 200 handwritten pages of a diary by New York lawyer and abolitionist Alvan Stewart (1790-1849). (Archives and Special Collections, Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami.)
- American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920) - Library of Congress collection "comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites." A subaltern's furlough; descriptive of scenes in various parts of the United States, upper and lower Canada, New-Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, during the summer and autumn of 1832, Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi (1896) and Travels through the United States of America, in the years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811 contain descriptions of upstate New York.
- Anti-Rent Wars - Populist agrarian movement for land reform in the 1830s and 1840s, particularly militant near Albany and in the hill towns of Delaware, Greene and Schoharie counties. Research can be conducted in the following categories: Patents: Hardenbergh; Scott; Blenheim; Corry; Saratoga; Kortright, Rapelje; Hartwick; Belvedere; Wallace; Fonda; Cosby; Rumbout Fiction & Poetry: James Fennimore Cooper's Littlepage Manuscripts, a trilogy consisting of Satanstoe (1845), The Chainbearer (1845), and The Red-Skins (1846); Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's Helderbergia, or, The apotheosis of the heroes of the Antirent war (1855); Landlords: the majority of the land was held by the Van Rensselaer and Livingston families (Rensselaerwyck, Claverack, Livingston Manor & Clermont) but other landlords included Isaac Hardenbergh (Roxbury); George C. Clarke (Hyde Hall); Janet Montgomery (sister of Robert R. and Edward Livingston); John Armstrong; Morgan Lewis; Library of Congress subject headings: Land Tenure - New York (State); Antirent War, N.Y. 1839-1946; Landlord and tenant - New York (State) - History; Rent strikes - New York (State) - History; Land grants - New York (State). Books: A free soil - a free people: the anti-rent war in Delaware County, New York by Dorothy Kubik (1997); Land and Reform: rural society; popular protest and party politics in antebellum New York by Reeve Huston (2000); The anti-rent era in New York law and politics, 1839-1865 by Charles McCurdy (2001). Online Books: Centennial History of Delaware County, New York : 1797-1897 - Chapter VIII - Anti Rent Troubles; History of Delaware County: Town of Middletown by W. W. Munsell; History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York... by Jay Gould (1856). Other key words to search for include lease in fee, manorial tenures, leasehold lands, perpetual lease, perpetual tenancy, leases in perpetuity, durable leases, rent strike, rent system, landlackers, patroons, patents, manors. Legislation: Duer Report, Act Concerning Tenures by Lease, Armed & Disguised Act. Names: Osman Steele, Smith A. Boughton. The Colonial Albany Social History Project is a good source for locating biographical information. It has an index.
- Buffalo History Works - Aaron T. Heverin's site on the history of Buffalo and Western New York is rich in canal and railroad material, (Dull Days on the Erie Canal, Canal Parlor Boats, Boat Building in Buffalo, Living with Steam: the Sounds of Railroading in Buffalo, New York Central Terminal of Buffalo and Past Tracks: A Queen City Built by Rail) but also has sections on Grain Elevators, Deco Restaurants, Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers and Abraham Lincoln in Buffalo. There is also a photograph archive.
- Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. Examples of images in the collection include: Jedediah Barber House, 18 North Main Street, Homer, Cortland County, NY, photo taken some time after 1933; Hyde Hall, East Lake Road Vicinity, East Springfield, Otsego County, NY; Timothy Brown House, South Main Street & State Route 26, Georgetown, Madison County, NY, Jack E. Boucher, Photographer 1966. There are four photographs of Indian Castle Church, State Route 55, Town of Danube, Herkimer County (Fort Hendrick), taken by photographer Nelson E. Baldwin on May 5, 1936. "Indian Castle Church was built in 1769 by Captain Samuel Clyde for Sir William Johnson, who presented it to the Canajoharies (Mohawks of the Upper or Canajoharie Mohawks Castle), in 1770. It is the only Colonial Indian Mission Chursch standing in New York State and the only surviving Colonial building of the Mohawks or Iroquois Castles. The Church was built on land owned by Joseh Brandt [Brant], the famous Mohawk Chieftain, who was noted for his pity [piety?] and who translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language. During the Revolution, the Mohawk Indian raiders, formerly residents here, attempted to steal the bell of this old church. They, however, neglected to fasten its clapper and its ringing awakened the parish settlers who armed themselves, sallied out and recovered the old church bell." (Data Page 2].
- Charter of Liberties and Privileges - From The Constitutional History of New York From the Beginning of the Colonial Period to the Year 1905, by Charles Z. Lincoln, Rochester, 1906.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. See Library of Congress press release - Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program.
- Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature
- Cultural Resource Management - Searchable and with Index of Past Issues.
- Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 - Philip Hone (1780-1851) was mayor of New York City in 1826 and 1827. His opinionated and entertaining diary records events both large and small. See also vol. 2. The Making of America Project (Cornell) gives (searchable) full-text access to the 1889 edition published by Dodd, Mead and edited by Bayard Tuckerman. A later edition of the book, edited and with an introduction by Allan Nevins, was published by Dodd, Mead in 1936. The entire 28 volume diary, owned by the New-York Historical Society, has never been published, although it is available in microfilm. Following is the catalog description for the manuscript diaries which can be found in BobCat, the online catalog for NYU which includes New-York Historical Society holdings. "Hone, a wealthy, prominent and cultured man, writes of the hundreds of prominent people with whom he came in contact: statesmen, artists, politicians, authors, businessmen, and others. He records the balls, dinners, and other entertainments he attends; national and local issues of the day; events in New York such as fires, riots, and visits of prominent foreigners; activities of the many cultural and philanthropic organizations which he assisted; his interest in newspapers, art, banks and banking, business conditions, railroads, and theatre; and his close involvement with the Whig Party. The notebook portion of the first volume includes texts of speeches he gave, lists of people "invited to dine", and copies of corresondence."
Here are a few excerpts from the online edition: "Nothing is talked of or thought of in New York but Croton water: fountains, aqueducts, hydrants, and hose attract our attention and impede our progress through the streets. Political spouting has given place to water-spouts, and the free current of water has diverted the attention of the people from the vexed questions of the confused state of the national currency." (October 12, 1842, vol. 2, p. 150). "A great steamboat race came off between the "Cornelius Vanderbilt," which bears the name of her enterprising proprietor, and the "Oregon," Captain Law. They went to Croton Point and returned, seventy-five miles, in three hours and fifteen minutes, - a rate of speed which would carry a vessel to Liverpool in five or six days. The "Oregon" gained the race, and Captain Vanderbilt was beaten for once." (June 1, 1847, vol. 2, p. 310).- Digital History - Clyde R. Jasper's site on the French and Indian War includes much New York history.
- Early Canadiana Online - "Full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada." A search for Iroquoian Indians, for example, retrieves 12 documents including William M. Beauchamp's The Iroquois Trail, or, Footprints of the Six Nations: in Customs, Traditions and History (1892) and James Constantine Pilling's Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages (1888). Other texts include Proceedings of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs appointed by law for the extinguishment of Indian titles in the state of New York: published from the original manuscript in the library of the Albany Institute, The Iroquois book of rites (1883), League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or, Iroquois (1851) by Lewis H. Morgan, The journal of Major John Norton, 1816, The life and times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks, 1656-1680 (1891), Jesuit missions among the Cayugas, from 1656 to 1684 (1876), Sir William Johnson and the six nations (1891), An Iroquois condoling council: a study of aboriginal American society and government (1895), Early chapters of Seneca history: Jesuit missions in Sonnontouan, 1656-1684 (1884) and A French-Onondaga dictionary: from a manuscript of the seventeenth century (1860).
- Fort Klock Historic Restoration and Indian Castle Church - Provides full text of A History of Herkimer County (1856) by Nathaniel S. Benton (but you'll probably need to enlarge the font in your browser to read it). Other Contents offered at the site include The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks (1897) by A. L. Byron-Curtiss and maps, photographs and articles on the region.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Hyde Park. Has over 10,000 digitized documents .
- Gallica: Images et Texts du XIX Siècle Francophone - 19th century full texts from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A search for Saint John de Crèvecoeur locates the text and illustrations for Voyage dans la Haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New-York depuisl'année 1785 jusqu'en 1798 (in French only). The search results also include illustrations (Mosaique) from the work: there are images of Késkétomah, ancien Sachem de la Nation Onondaga and Koohassen, guerrier de la Nation Onéida.
- Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum - 19th century philanthropist, social reformer and leader of anti-slavery activities whose papers are preserved in the Syracuse Department of Special Collections. There is also Gerrit Smith Broadside and Pamplet Collection (1793-1875), with an index.
- Gotham Comes of Age: New York through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892 - 1942 - "Replicates the published book in its entirety. Released in April 1999, the 216-page book--with 172 duotone reproductions accompanies the exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York."
- Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums - Digital Library at the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen. The travel book collection is particularly interesting. It consists of travel literature and North-Americana (particularly from the 18th and 19th centuries). William Darby's A tour from the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, made ... 1818contains extensive description of his travels in New York. He describes Newburgh (p. 10), West Point (12), Wappinger's Creek (19), Poughkeepsie (21), Rhinebeck (23), Kingston (24), Hudson (26), Kinderhook (29), Albany (35) Schenectady (39), Amsterdam (45), Palatine (46), Little Falls (48), German Flats (52), Herkimer (54), Utica (55), Watertown (67), Sackett's Harbor (70), Ogdensburg (76). Here is his description of Poughkeepsie. "I arrived here in the afternoon of the 25th Aug. and on the morning of the 26th, took an extensive ramble over its streets and environs. The town is in the form of a cross, the two principal streets crossing each other nearly at right angles. The houses are scattered, and the intervening spaces planted with trees. A roads leads down a long, steep, and in many places very abroupt hill, from Poughkeepsie to the landing, on the Hudson River. This circumstance subjects the inhabitants to great inconvenience. The opposite shore is broken, rocky, barren and desolate. The town contains at present about 2000 inhabitants. The houses have a decent plainness in their exterior, a character they have no doubt received from the moral taste of the inhabitants. I have visited few places, where a more mild, conciliating deportment was observed to the stranger." (p. 21).
- Heritage New York - Project of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to create a series of thematic Heritage Trails:
- Revolutional War Heritage Trail
- Underground Railroad Heritage Trail
- Theodore Roosevelt Heritage Trail
- Women's Heritage Trail
- Lincoln Commemorative Marker Program
- Historical Timeline of the New York State Legislature - New York State Senate
- Hope Farm Press - Regional history publisher has over over 2000 books on all regions of New York State.
- How the Other Half Lives - Studies Among the Tenements of New York; by Jacob A. Riis, c1890.
- Jacob K. Javits Collection - Collection owned by the State University of New York at Stony Brook includes a biography of the New York Congressman, a chronology of his life, and a description of the material in the collection.
- James Fenimore Cooper Society - Hosted by the State University of New York College at Oneonta, the site offers on-line texts of hard-to-find works by Cooper, transcribed and annotated by Hugh C. MacDougall, Articles & Papers about Cooper, a special section devoted to Cooper's eldest daughter,Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894 and links to other resources.
- Long Island: Our Story - Newsday series, published from September 1997, through June 1998, documents local history from the Ice Age to the Space Age."
- Making of America Project - "American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (1850-1877)." This digital library of nineteenth century books and journal volumes is "particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology" and is a good place to look for primary sources. This digitization project was undertaken at both the University of Michigan and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Search both collections; the Michigan collection consists of imprints between 1850 and 1877 and "currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection, which covers the period of 1840 - 1900 "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. The Nineteenth Century in Print the Making of America in Periodicals, "presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library" and is part of the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress. A gift from University of Michigan alumnus Lawrence Portnoy has funded the digitization of over 300 volumes relating to New York City history with a fascinating array of titles including Who's Who of the Chinese in New York (1873), Lillian Wald's The House on Henry Street (1915), the Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission (1912), [as well as the Second (1913) and Fourth (1915) reports], Recollections of a New York Chief of Police (1890) by George W. Walling, Trees and Shrubs of Central Park (c1903) and Wages and Regularity of Employment in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City (1915). Other titles in the collection include: The Adirondack; or, Life in the woods (1853) by Joel Tyler Headley, Draft Riots in New York (1863) by David M. Barnes, History of American Socialisms (1870) by John Humphrey Noyes (founder of the Oneida Community) and Woods and waters; or, the Saranacs and Racket (1860) by Alfred Billings Street, Proceedings and debates of the Constitutional convention of the state of New York Held in 1867 and 1868 in the City of Albany by Edward Fitch Underhill, Weed, Parsons, 1868, 5 vols. consisting of Volume I (pp. 1-800 with comprehensive index for all five volumes), Volume II (pp. 801-1600), Volume III (pp. 1601-2400), Volume IV (pp. 2401-3200 with index), and Volume V (pp. 3201-3971). (There is also a list of New York State Books in Digital Form in the Making of America Project which was assembled by librarians at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.)
- National Register of Historic Places
- National Park Service - Has information on the Underground Railroad in New York and lists parks by state.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). A search for Iroquois, for example, retrieves over 170 records, among which is a citation which leads to a description of the Gideon Hawley Papers owned by the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston and available in microfilm. Hawley established a mission among the Six Nations on the Susquehanna in 1754, near Windsor, New York. Volume 1 contains journal documentation of Hawley's mission to the Six Nations from January 27-September 1754 and April 20, 1755-January 1756.
- New Deal Network - Research and teaching resource on the World Wide Web devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal (See also the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum)
- New York Folklore Society - Their publications include a newsletter, a journal and a quarterly.
- New-York Historical Society
- New York History Net - With sections on Underground Railroad in New York State, Matilda Joslyn Gage and the Central New York Freedom Trail.
- New York State and the Civil War - Compiled by Sue Greenhagen, a technical services librarian at SUNY Morrisville, who also maintains the 114th New York State Volunteer Infantry: A Regimental Archive and the Civil War Letters of Galutia York (Galutia York was the oldest son of a farm family from Hubbardsville, New York)
- New York State Archives Digital Collections
- "The Digital Collections provide a gateway to a variety of rich primary source materials held by the State Archives, State Library, and State Museum. Through the collection, you can access photographs, textual materials, artifacts, government documents, manuscripts, and other materials."
Below are links to a selection of photographs from the collection depicting Central New York. See also Digital Librarian: Adirondacks - History for additional images.
- Gerrit Smith House. Peterboro, N.Y. (1916)
- Solar Process. Several Salt Well Houses Where Brine Is Pumped; Flats and Covers. Syracuse, N.Y. (1908)
- Wire Drawing, Wickwire Factory Cortland, New York (1916)
- Shoe finishing. Endicott Johnson Plant, Endicott NY, 1917
- Group of Indian Children. Onondaga Reservation, N.Y. (1910)
- Amherst-Cornell Hockey Game on Beebe Lake, Ithaca (January 14, 1922)
- Toboggan Slide on Beebe Lake. Ithaca - February, 1924
- Delta Dam (1916) - General view from below; Gate House, locks of relocated Black River Canal, a tow and a change bridge. Four miles north of Rome
- Seneca Corn-husk Dolls Dressed in Tribal Costumes (1937)
- Group of farm workers in a hop field - 1890-1910? "View into a hop field where hop pickers - men, women, and children are working. The area, near Cooperstown, is dubbed "Hop City." New York was a leader in the production of hops by 1849. The major producing counties were Otsego, Oneida, Madison, Schoharie, and Montgomery."
- Erie Canal. Remains Of Old Aqueduct Over The Mohawk River
- Panorama near Callicoon - 1890-1910?
- Civil War. Prison Camp in Elmira, N.Y. during Civil War
- Glass factory: man tamping clay with bare feet - Corning
- Binghamton State Hospital - 1890-1910?
- State Prison in Auburn - 1880-1910?
- View of Black River Falls in Watertown - 1880-1910?
- Queen of the Fairies and her attendants. Cortland - ca 1910
- Oswego Life Saving Station - 1880-1910?
- Fish Rack (Oneida)
- New York State Governors - Kim Harris Myers
- New York State Historical Association - Cooperstown
- New York State Historical Maps - State University of New York at Stony Brook. Has a A Mappe of Colonel Romers Voyage to ye 5 Indian Nations, 1700. Also provided is the New York State Map Pathfinder.
- New York State History Electronic Discussion List (NYHIST-L) - Edited by William A. Evans and James D. Folts, both archivists at the New York State Archives and Records Administration.
- New York State Newspaper Project - "Identifying, describing, preserving, and making available to researchers the significant newspapers in all communities in New York State since the first publication in 1725."
- Newspapers in Virginia Database - Searchable by title, name/place, subject and keyword, this datablase consists of catalog records for almost 6,000 individual newspaper titles published throughout the country, not just in Virginia. For example, a subject search for Afro-Americans locates 10 pages of results for African American newspapers. (There are 25 records for New York.) Another useful resource is Newspapers in Virginia, a Bibliography of American Newspapers Examined by the Virginia Newspaper Project, an alphabetical list grouped by state, county, and city.
- Notable New Yorkers
- "Audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with ten influential New Yorkers, drawn from the collections of the Oral History Research Office of the Columbia University Libraries. The ten New Yorkers are Bennett Cerf, Kenneth Clark, Mamie Clark, Moe Foner, Andrew Heiskell, Edward I. Koch, Mary Lasker, John B. Oakes, Frances Perkins and Frank Stanton.
- Old Mohawk Turnpike - By Nelson Greene, Mohawk Valley Historic Association. 270 pp. transcribed by Joan Redmond and others as a project of Fulton County NYGenWeb and Herkimer and Montgomery County NYGenWeb.
- Oneida Community Collection - "Inventories and bibliographies relating to Oneida Community materials held at Syracuse and elsewhere, the full text of several books written by, and about, members of the Community, and 140 selected photographs..." (Department of Special Collections, Syracuse University Library.)
- Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections - New York Public Library
- Political Graveyard: Index to Cemeteries in New York - Lawrence Kestenbaum
- Revised history of Harlem (City of New York): its origin and early annals, prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices of its founders before emigration.: Also, sketches of numerous families, and the recovered history of the land-titles ...
- By James Riker. Published in 1904, the book is a rich resource for early New York history. From the Making of America Project, University of Michigan.
- Rochester Images - Searchable online collection of images which may be printed for personal, educational, or research use. The database will include 22,000 historical and contemporary images from Rochester and Monroe County and currently includes at least 2,000 images. Rochester History, a quarterly magazine which began publication in January of 1939, is completely indexed and available in its entirety online in pdf format. With a Table of Contents and an Index, this is a rich resource for material on Western New York history. (Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County.)
- Small-Town America: Stereoscopic views from the Robert Dennis Collection - 12,000 photographs of small towns in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as "they were captured in stereoscopic views from the 1850s to the 1910s. In addition to showing buildings and street scenes in cities, towns, and villages, the photographs show farming, industry, transportation, homes, businesses, local celebrations, natural disasters, people and costumes." Central New York is strongly represented: Binghamton (26 images), Cazenovia (18 images), Clinton (32 images), Central New York (65 images), Cooperstown (47 images), Elmira (37 images), Ithaca (40 images) and Syracuse (29 images). (From the New York Public Library Digital Library Collection.)
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - Searchable Library of Congress collection offers many images of New York State (Adirondack Mountains - Corning, Crown Point - Opalescent River, Oriskany - Youngstown.)
- Trenton Falls - Spectacular series of waterfalls on the West Canada Creek located 14 miles north of Utica, New York near the towns of Barneveld and Remsen. This was a major tourist attraction in the 19th century but is now largely unknown. "After being closed for nearly 100 years, approximately one mile of scenic trails allow the public to visit the site. The stone dust and wood mulch trails lead visitors to stunning views of the gorge and its waterfalls. Interpretive panels provide information on hydropower, geology and history. In the mid-1800s the site featured an exclusive resort hotel and was a "must see" destination between the East Coast and Niagara Falls. In October 2004, more than 4,000 visitors flocked to the site for its inaugural weekends." (This is from a Brascan Power Press Release.) In 2005 Brascan Power opened the Falls to the public on October 1st & 2nd and October 8th & 9th. The Town Of Trenton provides Directions to Trenton Falls.
Early travel books describing Trenton Falls include Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive (1851) by N. Parker Willis, A description of Trenton Falls, Oneida county, N.Y. (1844) by John Sherman, and Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks, (land of the thousand lakes) and to Saratoga Springs; Schroon Lake; Lakes Luzerne, George, and Champlain; the Ausable Chasm; the Thousand Islands; Massena Springs; and Trenton Falls (1894) by Edwin R. Wallace, all from the Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature Collection. It also is of great interest to geologists. See Geologic Overview of the Trenton Group at West Canada Creek, New York - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. See also Trenton Falls Scenic Trails and Trenton Falls, Chapter 13, Mohawk: Discovering the Valley of the Crystals by M. Paul Keesler. Trenton Falls, Picturesque and Descriptive. Nearby are two lovely roads to explore: Dover Road and Military Road. See Town of Russia - Roads which provides the following information "The best known of the first roads was State/Military Road that was built across the hills, originally called the State Road when it was surveyed in 1806 and then opened to travel in 1808. After leaving Albany to Johnstown, it followed a course through the Town of Oppenheim to Dolgeville and then turned northwesterly through the settlements of Salisbury, Salisbury Corners, Norway, Cold Brook, Russia, Boon's Bridge on the West Canada Creek near Prospect, and then northward to Remsen and Boonville, and eventually to Sackett's Harbor. It is the oldest road in the Town, running from southeast to northeast across the Town. During the War of 1812 this road was used to supply the fort at Oswego on Lake Ontario. Troops were marched over it and chains were carried north to close the St. Lawrence River to the British. In the early 1900's the section in Herkimer County was named Military Road."- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - History, photographs, reports, oral histories, bibliography and links to related web sites provided by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!).
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,109 unedited, 778 fully edited and encoded) by 1,394 authors. You can search the full-text. Wright "listed a total of 2,923 titles in adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose" (from the introduction), and inventoried 18 American libraries for holdings. This compilation is part of his three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is still considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries."
- Yates County New York: Office of Public History - Provides some valuable research resources.
- Yester-images from around New York State - Postcards from the collection of Larry Myers
Historic Preservation
- Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. Samples: Jedediah Barber House, 18 North Main Street, Homer, Cortland County, NY, photo taken some time after 1933; Hyde Hall, East Lake Road Vicinity, East Springfield, Otsego County, NY; Timothy Brown House, South Main Street & State Route 26, Georgetown, Madison County, NY, Jack E. Boucher, Photographer 1966.
- Medieval New York - Paul Halsall, an instructor and Ph.D. candidate in medieval and Byzantine studies at Fordham University, and students in his Introduction to Medieval History class have researched New York City and how the "histories of the European, Byzantine, and Islamic Middle Ages are documented in its streets and buildings."
- National Register of Historic Places - U.S. National Park Service site provides access to database, educational materials, publications, showcase of recently listed properties and regional travel itineraries. You can search by name and location.
- New York Landmarks Conservancy
- New York State Preservationist - Publication of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- Preservation League of New York State
Images
- Archives nationales du Canada / National Archives of Canada - Use the Documentary Art Database to search for online images. Examples include Westpoint, Hudson River (1865), Hudson River and Catskill Mountains (1865), Hudson River near Westpoint (1865), all by Capt. Francis G. Coleridge; View of Sing Sing on the Hudson (1836-1842), Canterskill Falls, Catskill Mountains, and Rip Van Winkle Rock (1839), Lake George from Top of Black Mountain (ca 1840), Ruins of Fort Erie and City of Buffalo, 1838 all by Philip John Bainbrigge; Table d'Hote, Catskill, New York (1838) by Katherine Jane Ellice; Prison at Auburn, New York (ca 1830) by James Pattison Cockburn; Near Whitehall at the Bottom of Lake Champlain, New York (1839) by James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt; and A South View of the Great Falls of the Genesee River, New York (1761) by Thomas Davies.
Law & Law Enforcement
- Lawyers Alliance for New York
- Legal Information Institute - New York-related resources from this Cornell Law School site include Decisions of the New York Court of Appeals, liibulletin-ny, which "analyzes the more significant decisions of the New York Court of Appeals" and New York Legal Materials.
- Municipal Codes Online - Jeannette Voiland, Seattle Public Library. See also the Municipal Code Corporation and General Code Publishers.
- New York Court of Appeals Decisions
- New York Law Journal
- New York State Bar Association
- New York State Commission of Correction
- New York State Defenders Association - Offers criminal defense news, information on immigration law and assigned counsel fees, and some of their recent publications.
- New York State Department of Correctional Services
- Inmate Population Information Search - "Provides "information on the status and location of inmates incarcerated in a New York State Department of Correctional Services prison. Information is also provided on former inmates; primarily so an inquiry regarding a released inmate results in a positive result telling when and why the inmate was released."
- Correctional Facilities
- Maps
- New York State Police - With Site Index. They provide links to Federal Agencies, State Police, Highway Patrols & Public Safety, Sheriffs Offices, Local Police and Public Safety Departments. Their Violent Crime Analysis Program (NYS VICAP) is designed to collect, collate and analyze information regarding the following types of unsolved violent crimes that might be serial in nature and includes homicides, missing persons, sexual assaults and unidentified bodies.
- New York State Unified Court System
- Table of Contents
- Court Administration Reports
- New York State Attorney Directory
- Judges
- Decisions
- New York State Court of Appeals Latest Decisions
- Uncontested Divorce Packet
- Legal Forms
- Press Releases
- New York State Courts
- Unified Court System Law Libraries
- Town and Village Courts
- Bar Associations
- Legal Research.
- New York v. United States, 488 U.S. 1041 (1992) - Syllabus of Supreme Court decision in which Cortland and Allegany counties challenged the Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 was argued on March 30, 1992 and decided on June 19, 1992. See also Justice O'Connor's opinion and the dissenting opinions of Justice Stevens and Justice White. (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School.) Findlaw also provides a copy of New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992). You can hear the oral arguments (March 30, 1992) at Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia in New York v. United States (Peter H. Schiff, Lawrence G. Wallace & William B. Collins) which includes the following summary: "Does the Low-Level Waste Act violate the Tenth Amendment and the "guarantee clause" of Article Four? Conclusion: In a 6-3 decision, the Court upheld two of the three provisions of the Act under review, reasoning that Congress had the authority under the Commerce Clause to use financial rewards and access to disposal sites as incentives for state waste management. The third provision, the "take-title" qualification, stipulated that states must take legal ownership and liability for low-level waste or by the regulatory act. "Either type of federal action," wrote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "would 'commandeer' state governments into the service of federal regulatory purposes, and would for this reason be inconsistent with the Constitution's division of authority between federal and state governments." This last provision violated the Tenth Amendment."
- Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
- Supreme Court - Monroe County - Seventh Judicial District
- Touro Law Center - Allows you to search U. S. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit) decisions. Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Touro College, Huntington, New York. Decisions for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island) are also available.
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York - "Comprises the counties of Kings, Nassau, Queens, Richmond, and Suffolk and concurrently with the Southern District, the waters within the counties of Bronx and New York."
- United States District Court for the Northern District of New York - Offices located in Albany, Auburn, Binghamton, Syracuse, Utica and Watertown.
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement - 1995 exhibition at the University of Rochester Library.
Libraries & Archives
- Archivists Round Table - Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (ART). There is a NYART Repository Guide.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Hyde Park. Has over 10,000 digitized documents.
- Making of New York - "Cooperative effort by New York's 11 Comprehensive Research Libraries (NYCRL) to create a New York State Digital Library."
- School Library Systems Association of New York State - With Directory.
- Mid-Hudson Library System - Poughkeepsie, New York. Provides links to its 65 member libraries.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). A search for Iroquois, for example, retrieves over 170 records, among which is a citation which leads to a description of the Gideon Hawley Papers owned by the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston and available in microfilm. Hawley established a mission among the Six Nations on the Susquehanna in 1754, near Windsor, New York. Volume 1 contains journal documentation of Hawley's mission to the Six Nations from January 27-September 1754 and April 20, 1755-January 1756.
- New York Public Library
- New York State Archives and Records Administration - With online catalog - Excelsior .
- Nylink - Not-for-profit membership organization for approximately 350 institutions, representing more than 700 academic, special, government, law, medical, public, school and non-profit libraries, and library systems. They provide Training, Publications, Cooperative Purchasing, Reference Services and Reference and Resource Sharing
- New York Library Association - With information on Annual Conference
- New York State Association of Library Boards - Offers a Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State,
- New York State Library - Provides a site index and access to their online catalog, Excelsior. The Directory of New York State Library Systems and Members includes more than 6300 libraries in New York State and is organized alphabetically by the names of nine geographic regions. Also offers a Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York. Accumulated annual versions are available electronically for the years 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, and 1989. Publications from 1996 on have been scanned and are available in TIFF or GIF format. You must first find the document's OCLC number and then paste it into the search form provided. The Genealogy page provides descriptions of the genealogical resources available at the Library. New York State Electronic Documents includes "digital versions of New York State agency documents from the Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York for years 1995 and forward."
- NOVEL: New York Online Virtual Electronic Library - Provides access to the Steering Committee Minutes.
- SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA) - With links to SUNY Library Web Sites
- SUNY Library Catalogs - Links compiled by the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services
Literature
- New York State Authors - Compilation of deceased New York State writers, listed aphabetically and by county.
- New York State Literary Tree
- Iroki, Theodore Dreiser Home - Mt. Kisco, NY (See also photo of Helen Dreiser at Iroki.
- New York State Writers Institute - Founded in Albany in 1983 by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy, it offers a Visiting Writers Series, a Summer Writers Institute and a Summer Young Writers Institute. The Writer is a weekly half hour series of video portraits focusing on contemporary writers and poets, produced by the Institute and WMHT-TV and Writers Online is an electronic magazine of reviews, interviews, and feature articles.
Lodging
- Beaverkill Valley Inn - Lew Beach. (The Beaverkill is one of the great trout rivers in America. Beaverkill and Willowemoc Creek (Beamoc) are considered to be the birthplace of American fly fishing.
- (Austin McK. Francis, the author of Land of Little Rivers: A Story in Photos of Catskill Fly Fishing by Austin McK. Francis
- Beaverkill: The History of a River and Its People by Ed Van Put and John Merwin, Lyons Press, 2002.
- Catskill Rivers: Birthplace of American Fly Fishing by Austin M. Francis, Lyons Press, 2005.
- Fly Fishing the Beaverkill by Eric Peper and Gary LaFontaine, Lyons Press, 2003. You can search inside this book at Amazon.com.
- Castle at Tarrytown
- DEC Campground Information - New York State Department on Environmental Conservation
- Empire State Bed and Breakfast Association
- Garnet Hill Lodge - Four season Adirondack Inn in North River.
- Gideon Putnam Hotel - Saratoga Springs
- Glen Iris Inn - Letchworth State Park
- Mohonk Mountain House - Resort in New Paltz. Located in the Mohonk Preserve.
- New York Campgrounds - Directory of members of the Campground Owners of New York (CONY).
- Otesaga Resort Hotel - Cooperstown
- The Point - "Exclusive, uniquely American resort deep in the heart of New York's 6-million-acre Adirondack Park" (on Upper Saranac Lake). The Lake Placid Lodge is a sister property.
- Reserve America: Campgrounds in New York State - Among the campgrounds in the Adirondacks is Cranberry Lake open May through October (315 848-2315). Good waterfront sites are 47, 48*, 61, 64, 92, 93, 98, 111, 117*, 118 and 120. From Cranberry Lake you can canoe the Oswegatchie River for 16 miles.There are 42 state-operated campgrounds in the Adirondacks. Susan Wheeler in her article Adirondack Camping: Top 10 Hidden Gems, in the May 2001 issue of Adirondack Sports and Fitness, recommends: Alger Island (315-369-3224), Forked Lake (518-624-6646), Brown Tract Pond (315-354-4412), Eighth Lake (315-354-41200), Lake Durant (518-352-797), Luzerne (518-696-2031), Sacandaga (518-924-4121), Putnam Pond (518-585-7280), Cranberry Lake and Meacham Lake (518-483-5116).
- Sagamore Resort & Conference Center - On Lake George at Bolton Landing, New York
- St. Lawrence - Champlain Valley Ecoregion Biodiversity Consevation Plan - First Iteration, July 2002, The Nature Conservancy
- Wawbeek - Upper Saranac Lake resort
Maps
- Historic USGS Maps of New England & NY
- New York State Historical Maps - State University of New York at Stony Brook. Has a A Mappe of Colonel Romers Voyage to ye 5 Indian Nations, 1700. Also provided is the New York State Map Pathfinder.
Museums and Historic Sites
- Adirondack Museum - Blue Mountain Lake
- Albany Institute of History and Art
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Farmers' Museum - Cooperstown
- Fort Klock Historic Restoration and Indian Castle Church
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Hyde Park. Has over 10,000 digitized documents
- Hudson River Maritime Museum - Kingston, New York
- Hudson River Museum - Yonkers
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site - North Elba, Essex County
- Museum of the City of New York
- Museums, Archives & Historical Societies
- National Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooperstown. Provides Hall of Famer List, with Biographies and Eligible Candidates for Future Hall of Fame Elections.
- National Women's Hall of Fame - Seneca Falls
- New-York Historical Society
- New York State Historical Association - Cooperstown
- New York State Museum - Albany
- Oneida Community Mansion House
- Virtual Library museums pages:USA - New York
Music
- Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts - Katanoh
- Chautauqua Institution - Located in Jamestown, Chautaqua offers personal enrichment for all ages. "Over 2,000 events each season include: symphony, opera, chamber music, visual arts, dance, theater, popular entertainment, open-enrollment classes, programming for young people." History of the Institution is provided in the Historical Anniversary Exhibit.
- Glimmerglass Opera - Cooperstown
- Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform on Saturday, August 19, 2006.
Native Americans
- Ancestral Grounds: the Battle over Indian Land Claims - Three-part series on the Indian land claims in central New York published by the Albany Times Union, October 24-26, 1999.
- Gallica: Images et Texts du XIX Siècle Francophone - 19th century full texts from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A search for Saint John de Crèvecoeur locates the text and illustrations for Voyage dans la Haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New-York depuisl'année 1785 jusqu'en 1798 (in French only). The search results also include illustrations (Mosaique) from the work: there are images of Késkétomah, ancien Sachem de la Nation Onondaga and Koohassen, guerrier de la Nation Onéida.
- Haudenosaunee - Home page of the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs
- Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. There are four photographs of Indian Castle Church, State Route 55, Town of Danube, Herkimer County (Fort Hendrick), taken by photographer Nelson E. Baldwin on May 5, 1936. "Indian Castle Church was built in 1769 by Captain Samuel Clyde for Sir William Johnson, who presented it to the Canajoharies (Mohawks of the Upper or Canajoharie Mohawks Castle), in 1770. It is the only Colonial Indian Mission Chursch standing in New York State and the only surviving Colonial building of the Mohawks or Iroquois Castles. The Church was built on land owned by Joseh Brandt [Brant], the famous Mohawk Chieftain, who was noted for his pity [piety?] and who translated the gospel of St. Mark into the Mohawk language. During the Revolution, the Mohawk Indian raiders, formerly residents here, attempted to steal the bell of this old church. They, however, neglected to fasten its clapper and its ringing awakened the parish settlers who armed themselves, sallied out and recovered the old church bell." (Data Page 2].
- Iroquois Doll Makers
- Located on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, home of the Seneca Nation of Indians.
- Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties - "Historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S.treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins." A project of the Oklahoma State University Library.
- Making of America - This digital library of nineteenth century books and journal volumes is "particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology" and is a good place to look for primary sources. This digitization project was undertaken at both the University of Michigan and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Search both collections; the Michigan collection consists of imprints between 1850 and 1877 and "currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles" and the Cornell collection, which covers the period of 1840 - 1900 "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. One of the titles in MoA Michigan is The Documentary History of the State of New-York (1849) by E. B. (Edmund Bailey) O'Callaghan (1797-1880). For more on this book see New York: the State of History by Joseph F. Meany Jr.originally presented in 1994 as the New York State Historian's "State of History" Address to an annual meeting of the Association of Public Historians of New York State. The complete contents are listed as: I. Papers Relating to Lt. Gov. Liesler's Administration [1689-1691] p. 1, II. Early Rate Lists of Long Island [1675, 1676 & 1683] p. 439, III. Manuscripts of Sir William Johnson, [From the originals on file in the Secretary of State's Dep't Albany] p. 543, IV. Early Steam Navigation, p. 1011, V. Papers Relating to Western New-York, p. 1103. The Index is on pp. 1190-1212. The third section, The Manuscripts of Sir William Johnson, (Section III, pp. 543-1009), is particularly intereesting. In 1746 Johnson was named Commissary for Indian Affairs by Governor Clinton of New York and in 1755 was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs by Major General Braddock. The first entry on p. 545 is the Proceedings of Commissioners from 6 Provinces Met at Albany Anno 1754 on Indian Affairs, p. 868 is the Journal of Indn Transactions at Niagara, in the Year 1767 From 2d July to the 24th September and on p. 632 is a description of a Condolence Ceremony at Onondaga on September 8, 1753. "September the 8th 1753. Entered the Onondaga Castle being mett by the Sachims a Mile on this Side, who said they were allready to receive me, Soon after I was seated, the Red Head one of the Chief Sachims of that Castle, rose up, and Spoke as follows: Brother Warraghiiyagey. As You enter our Meeting Place with wett Eyes, & sorrowfull Hearts, in Conjunction with our Bretheren the Mohawks, we do with this string of Wampum wipe away your tears, and asswage your greif, that you may speak freely in this Assembly --Here they gave the String of Wampum -- Here follows what I said to the General Convention of the Six Nations att Onondaga spoke by Hendrick the Chief of the Mohawks -- Bretheren of the Six Nations--The great conscern I am under for the loss of our three great and beloved Brothers, Caghniagarota, Onughsadego, and Gahusquerowana, who in their time made Your Assembly compleat makes it incumbent on me to condole thier death, and as it is a great loss to Us in general, I do by these three Belts of Wampum dry up your tears that we may see each other, clear your throats that we may speak together and wash away their Blood out of our Sight, and cover their Bones with these Strowd Blankets." See also Sir William Johnson and the six nations (1891) by William Elliot Griffis.
- Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs
- New York State Archives and Records Administration - With access to Online Catalog. They offer a Guide to Records Relating to Native Americans. There is material on the Thomas Indian School, in existence from 1855 to 1957 (A1913. Photographs of Activities and Facilities, ca. 1895-1950. 1 cubic foot)
- Return of the Natives: An eight-part series - Series on Northeast Indians by Daniel P. Jones, David Lightman, Hilary Waldman, Kenton Robinson, Edmund Mahony and Steve Grant that appeared in the Hartford Courant between May 22 and May 29, 1994. Unbroken treaties: How a new generation got the law on its side provides an account of how Syracuse attorney George C. Shattuck won a unanimous ruling in 1974 from the U.S. Supreme Court for the Oneidas (Oneida Indian Nation of New York State v. County of Oneida, New York, 414 U.S.. 661, argued Nov. 6 and 7, 1973, decided Jan. 21, 1974). Related decisions include County of Oneida, New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State, 470 U.S. 226, decided March 4, 1985 and Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida, No. 70-CV-35, United States District Court, July 12, 1977. In Oneida & Madison Counties v. Oneida Indian Nation, 470 U.S. 226, argued Oct. 1, 1984 and decided March 4, 1985, the Oneidas sued two New York State counties seeking damages representing fair rental value of the land presently owned and occupied by the counties. Shattuck wrote a book on the issue The Oneida Land Claims: A Legal History, Syracuse University Press, 1991. ($19.95).
- Seneca Nation of Indians
New York City
- CitySearch: New York - Microsoft's city guide to New York
- Hotel 17 - For a review seeNew York City: Hotel 17 by Christopher Solomon, New York Times, January 7, 2007. "This is an old-school, tourist-class hotel. No business center. No fitness center. No day spa. But as the manager said helpfully, “We have an ice machine on the first floor.”
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority - New York City transportation, including information on Fares & MetroCard
- New York Social Diary - Daniel Patrick Columbia's column about New York's rich and powerful offers photographs, is searchable and has an Archive.
- New York Today - New York Times Internet service about entertainment, restaurants and shopping in New York City and its suburbs. The site, designed to look like an appointment calendar, provides weather forecasts, arts events and other information listed by date.
Newspapers, Radio, TV
- Albany Times Union
- Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin
- Buffalo News
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. See Library of Congress press release - Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program.
- Empire Information Services
- Electronic news release delivery service for New York State. Offers a list of New York Statewide Media.
- Long Island Newsday
- NPR Stations in New York - National Public Radio
- New York Daily News
- New York New Media Association - With member newspaper directory, indexed by region or alphabetically.
- New York Press Association
- New York Newspaper Publishers Association - Has links to Member Newspapers.
- New York Post
- New York State Newspaper Project - "Identifying, describing, preserving, and making available to researchers the significant newspapers in all communities in New York State since the first publication in 1725."
- New York Times
- News Directory: New York - Links to New York newspapers, organized by area code.
- NewsLink: New York Newspapers
- Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
- Suffolk Times Online
- Syracuse Post Standard
- Westchester County Weekly
Non-Profits
- New York Regional Association of Grantmakers - With Member Directory
Outdoor Recreation
- Adirondack Mountain Club - Located in Lake George, New York, the club offers Outdoor Travel Adventures, Programs, an online catalog, and information on its Adirondak Loj and Johns Brook Lodge.
- Appalachian Mountain Club - New York - North Jersey Chapter
- Appalachian Trail Conference
- American Whitewater - Has sections on New York Rivers.
- Current New York Trail Conditions - Part of the larger Views from the Top site.
- DEC Campground Information - New York State Department on Environmental Conservation
- Exploring Letchworth Park History - Tom Breslin & Tom Cook. This park, known as the Grand Canyon of the East is one of New York State's most spectacular parks. See Glen Iris Inn and ReserveAmerica for additional information.) <
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