{"value"=>"<p>The series consists of seventeen record books, numbered one through eighteen. There is no gap in the records although volume 18 is missing. The volumes contain minutes of trustees' monthly meetings, annual meetings, and meetings of various committees; lists of officers and trustees; by-laws and charters; correspondence of secretaries and presidents (including the founder and first president, Andrew H. Green); reports; New York State legislative documents; clippings; circulars; brochures; dues and membership forms; blueprints, maps, photographs showing scenic and historic sites with which the Society was concerned; and accounts. These relate to the administration of sites under the Society's custodianship, sites not under its custodianship, but with which it was concerned, and a wide variety of other Society matters.</p>"}