Accessions registers showing new additions to various parts of the collections, including slides and the illustrations collection.
Sem títuloIncludes registers of applications to join the library, and registers of loan requests made.
Includes leaflets and other marketing materials both created by the library and retained by the library, with the latter relating to events held in the building.
Sem títuloIncludes some personnel files for individual staff members, and staff circulars.
Includes newspaper cuttings relating to the creation of free libraries generally, York Public Library specifically, and local and national news stories relating to the library sector.
Includes photographs of York Public Library (including the Childrens and Reference libraries) as well as images of Acomb, Tang Hall and New Earswick branch libraries.
Sem títuloCurrently only includes information relating to the opening of branch libraries at Strensall and Haxby.
Includes material relating to libraries outside of the City of York Council boundary, which were retained by the library service for reference.
Includes material relating to libraries outside of the City of York Council boundary, which were retained by the library service for reference.
The later reports are titled City of York Public Library Committee
Box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of patients individuals suffering from the effects of syphilis, as well as information slides on how the disease is spread and its treatment.
Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes slides of children with various diseases; pictures of housing; image of a [?]model dairy; a laboratory; and a York Health Department display. Box marked: 'By Longstaff'.
Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Glass plate negatives of children receiving treatment from nurses at the School Medical Clinic and images of infants at Fishergate Creche.
Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Box labelled: 'Best negatives of School Clinic: nurses at work; School Clinic: Mrs Potter at work; School Clinic: the Dentist at work; Knavesmire School: the spray bath and open air classrooms'. Also labelled: 'Hanstock's negatives'
Includes details of salaries, subscription fees and expenses.
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Comprises 2 volumes for the June 1842 quarter
Clearance papers
Clearance papers
Clearance papers
Clearance papers
Clearance papers
Includes papers regarding fundraising for a new headquarters building, and papers regarding the building of new headquarters in Poppleton.
Incoming correspondence from the Local Government Board to the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union
Comprises files of successful applicants only
Comprises files of successful applicants only
Certificates of service for staff to support superannuation claims
Includes large format colour slides, and glass plate negatives.
Only the item dated 1837 lists returns for all four wards.
Comprises improvement records relating to Clementhorpe, Fenwick Street, Anne Street, William Street, Cherry Street, Cherry Hill Lane; Colenso Street and Ebor Street
Improvement papers for the Layerthorpe area.
Improvement papers for the Walmgate area.
Includes associated correspondence and plans
Comprises draft minutes, and correspondence to the Committee and the Local Board of Health.
Particulars and conditions of sale for properties and land to be sold by York Corporation following improvements and clearances in the Castlegate and Water Lane area. Includes land and property in Clifford Street, Tower Street, King's Staith, and a 'proposed new street'.
Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics
Copies of printed minutes of the meetings of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Town Clerk's correspondence files. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.
Volumes of outgoing accounts, as well as finanical papers for central lending sales and account book for the Youth Cooperative Club.
Reports itemising various training needs required, as well as workshops undertaken.
Includes Subject indexes to Periodicals, annual reports for the Yorkshire branch,
Papers and architectural drawings relating to the formation of the York Public Library.
Sem títuloPrinted catalogues and class lists of the works contained in the York Public Library.
Sem títuloBox of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of patients with infectious diseases, health statistics and informational slides on health.
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides covering various areas of health education including anatomy, botany, and bacteriology.
Series of 50 lantern slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides of Knavesmire School, York Maternity Hospital, housing, infant mortality and general health warnings.
Box of slides featuring mainly classical sculptures and paintings.
Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes images of specimens in milk, chart of the School Medical Service, chart of health services for consumptives, map showing distribution of cases, image of a young boy. Also includes film negative of an unknown treatment facility. Box marked: 'By Watson'
Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of open-air classrooms and spray baths. Box labelled: 'Mr Hanstock's negatives of Knavesmire School.'
Clearance papers
Comprises records relating to the following streets: Charles Street; De Grey Street and Lord Mayor's Walk.
Comprises records relating to Elmwood Street, Wilson's Court, Cemetery Road, Winterscale Street; James Terrace, and Fishergate.
Clearance papers for the Hungate area. See also Y/PPT/2/1/15/22 for Hungate improvement papers and Y/PPT/2/1/15/21 for Hungate inspection reports.
Clearance papers
Clearance papers
General administrative papers relating to clearances.
Town Clerk's clearance papers for Bootham Row.
Town Clerk's clearance papers for Cook's Yard, Lawrence Street.
Town Clerk's clearance papers . The Wellington Row Clearance order includes records for the following streets: Wellington Row, Midgley's Place; Sherwood's Yard; Billingham's Yard; Tanner Row; and Tanner Street.
The Dixon's Yard Clearance order include records relating to Dixon's Yard only.
Town Clerk's clearance papers for Skeldergate.
Comprises inspection records relating to rental properties with certificates of disrepair. The inspection reports record works that were necessary in order to cancel the certificates of disrepair. Certificates of disrepair were issued to tenants and allowed them to refuse any rent increase by the landlord until necessary improvements to the property were carried out. Some files include paperwork concerning the remedying of defects and applications by the landlord to cancel the certificate of disrepair.
Comprises 2 volumes for Dec 1837 quarter
Registers of staff service compiled principally to record superannuation payments. Includes name of staff member, office/position held, salary, dates of commencement and termination of service. May also include particulars of previous service.
Note: these volumes are dated according to the commencement date of staff, however there appear to be a small number of entries outside the covering dates. All volumes are indexed by surname of staff member.
See also PLU/11/3/3/5 York Poor Law Union Superannuation Registers
Summary financial statements recording total receipts and expenditure by the Guardians of the York Union.
Statements are completed for each half-year ending in March and September.
Includes large format colour slides, and glass plate negatives.
Improvement papers
Comprises reports of house to house inspections carried out by the Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector of Nuisances. Includes details of owners, occupiers, size and condition of house.
Notices served to owners, occupiers and lessees of the application to the Local Government Order for a provisional order for compulsory purchase to improve the Castlegate and Water Lane area. The notices include the names of the occupiers, owners and lessees (where relevant), a description of the property, and the plan number of the property. See also Y/PPT/2/3/3/6 for owners replies.
Comprises two volumes for the Mar 1847
Comprises two volumes for the Mar 1847
Outgoing correspondence from the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union to the Local Government Board.
Note that these are wet copy letter books and many of the letters are difficult to read owing to the poor quality of the copying process.
These letterbooks are not indexed.
Comprises summary accounts of amounts received and expended from the poor rate by the parish overseers and Board of Guardians of the Flaxton Out-Relief Union. Some returns include balance sheets of the parish overseers.
Registers intended to record superannuation contributions made by staff. Note, entries in these registers have not been completed. See also PLU/11/3/3/12 York Poor Law Union Service Registers
Comprises stubs recording when a nurse has been notified of the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act, 1896 and replies of nurses who do not wish to avail themselves of the act.
The bank books were in account with York County and TSB savings books. Also includes one cash book.
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Includes statistics relating to visitor numbers, issues, accounts, library membership, enquiries and accessions.
Log books relating to new acquisitions to the library and book borrowing.
Includes architectural drawings relating to both York Public Library (later York Central Library) and branch offices at Dringhouses, Acomb and Tang Hall.
Includes correspondence relating to the temporary branch library at Acomb and the planning of the new permanent branch.
Sem títuloComprises plans, photographs and copy of application for planning permission.
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of poor housing in York, a plan of a cottage at Port Sunlight, plans of back to back, flats and square blocks of streets. Also includes an image of a model of a model street of housing in York. Note, this box also contains a written list of slides that bears little resemblance to the contents of the box - it is likely that this list was used simply as packing material.
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of a patient with adenoids, a plan of a cottage at Port Sunlight, demonstration of window ventilators, a patient room at Kelling Sanatorium in Norfolk, demolition of a house, and birth and death rates 1893-1902.
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides of historical health statistics; educational slides relating to germs; images of Louis Pasteur, Lord Lister and Dr Woodhead, and a slide of an unknown building.
Series of lantern slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of Goodramgate, Bedern, St Leonard's, Skeldergate, Walmgate, and St Martin's Micklegate.
Glass plate negatives with public health information on the prevention, spread and treatment of Tuberculosis. Includes statistical slides and slides with text. Also includes image of a plan of York with each death by consumption marked for the period 1902-1909. Box marked: 'Slides for Langstaff. Negs. and Jeyes'
Clearance papers
Comprises records relating to the following streets: Cambridge Street; Rosary Street; Oxford Street; Mount Ephraim; Eagle Street; Stafford Place; and Denton Terrace.