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. College at Buffalo.
Buffalo, NY
- Draft documents , 1987-1993
1 v. (various pagings) ; 28 cm.
Response to public comment on the Lake Ontario questionnaire and at the Lake Ontario public workshops.--Appendix III: Summary of the public involvement questionnaire/public workshops.--Lake Ontario lakewide management plan for critical pollutants, draft workplan.-- Declaration of intent by United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environment Canada, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, relating to the Niagara River toxics management plan.
Subject: Poisons -- Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) Water -- Pollution -- Ontario, Lake.
Alt Title: Lake Ontario toxics management plan. Lakewide management plan.
State University of New York. College at Oswego.
Oswego, NY
- Ecological Action of Oswego. Ecological Action of Oswego records,
1970 1977
1 box ; 27 x 32 x 7 cm.
The Ecological Action of Oswego records consist of petitions, research, and newspaper clippings relevant to the organizations actions to preserve and protect the ecology of Oswego County. The Ecological Action of Oswego was a small group of concerned citizens interested in local and world wide environmental problems. The main effort of the organization was to postpone the development of nuclear power in the county of Oswego, New York, until further research had been conducted on nuclear reactor safety and the impact of nuclear energy on the environment.
State University of New York. College at Plattsburgh. Feinberg Library, Special Collections.
Plattsburgh, NY
- Hale, Robert F., d. 1963, collector. Scrapbooks, 1853-1957.
15 v.
Clippings chiefly from Malone newspapers pertaining to the history and activities of people and communities in Franklin County, including such subjects as conservation, railroads, highways, state police, baseball and bowling teams, hunting and fishing, and humorous and literary subjects of general interest. Also, invoices, receipts, and letters mainly concerning the Hale insurance business, and broadsides and programs of Malone events. Presumably compiled by Hale and/or his father, George H. Hale.
- State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. Feinberg
Library. Clipping collection, 1778-1985, 1946-1985 (bulk)
10 cubic ft.
Primarily historical articles, reminiscences, local news items, and obituaries concerning Plattsburgh, Clinton County, and the Adirondacks, with a special file on Champ, the Lake Champlain sea monster.
Finding aids: Card catalog. - State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. Feinberg
Library. Oral history collection, 1966-1974.
73 tape recordings.
Transcripts of some interviews available.
Taped interviews with local residents concerning prisons, the Miner Institute and the Miner family in Chazy, Plattsburgh in the 1920's-1930's, customs work at Rouses Point, education, farming, iron miner's life, banking in Clinton County, fruit growing, and folklore. Interviews with Adirondack guides "Josie" Mitchell and Eugene Peltier; with Dr. Hyla S. Watters on her missionary work in China and internment by the Japanese during World War II; with Florence Watters Stuntz about missionary teaching in Lahore, India, 1916-1956; and with Clarence Kilburn of Malone about politics, World War I, and business. Tapes of talks delivered on local history topics include subjects such as War of 1812, iron production, Plattsburgh businessmen's camp of 1915, Indian affairs, the Adirondack Park Agency, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, and Irving Bacheller's role in north country history. Also, transcripts of interviews about lumbering, farming, schools, and other local history topics in Skerry, Reynoldston, Bombay, Malone, Burke, Fort Covington, and Duane, N.Y.