Start with the New York place you remember
A plant, shipyard, powerhouse, hospital, mine, mill, utility, construction project, trade or town can be enough to begin. The map gives you a simple place to start; the deeper records stay behind it until they are useful.
Choose the part of New York you remember
Use the whole-state view for orientation, then choose the region that matches the place you remember. You do not need the exact employer, product or exposure source before beginning.
Explore New York by place
Choose one of seven H&S research regions to reach workplaces, public records and work-history research. Neighboring official New York regions are intentionally grouped here to keep the visitor path simple.
H&S research regions: seven broad areas used to organize the research library. Select a colored region on the map or use the links below. Regional divisions are not official government boundaries and do not represent precise workplace locations.
Western New York
Start with a workplace, trade, town or approximate years in this part of New York and follow the source-led records from there.
Rochester and Finger Lakes
Start with a workplace, trade, town or approximate years in this part of New York and follow the source-led records from there.
Central New York and Mohawk Valley
Start with a workplace, trade, town or approximate years in this part of New York and follow the source-led records from there.
North Country
Start with a workplace, trade, town or approximate years in this part of New York and follow the source-led records from there.
Southern Tier
Start with a workplace, trade, town or approximate years in this part of New York and follow the source-led records from there.
Capital Region and Hudson Valley
Start with a workplace, trade, town or approximate years in this part of New York and follow the source-led records from there.
New York City and Long Island
Start with a workplace, trade, town or approximate years in this part of New York and follow the source-led records from there.
Find workplaces in asbestos trust records
Some New York workplaces appear in historical lists published by asbestos bankruptcy trusts. Search the original records by a remembered workplace or city, and follow the source information alongside the workplace histories here.
Try a location: Buffalo → Syracuse → Rochester → Albany → Endicott → Brooklyn →
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Use the workplace name, location and linked source information as a starting point for deeper workplace research.
Already remember a workplace, town or trade?
Search the current New York research
Use a company, city, region, trade or another remembered detail to find the most relevant workplace records.
Build the history one detail at a time
If the workplace name is uncertain, organize the place, work, years, equipment and people you remember first.
You do not need to know the asbestos source first
Start with where the person worked, what kind of work they did, approximately when they were there, and what equipment, contractors or coworkers they remember. Those details can be connected to facility histories, court records, government records, occupation research and product evidence.
New York workplace evidence
Browse source-led records for individual workplaces and industrial properties.
Occupations and trades
Follow the remembered job or task when the exact facility history is incomplete.
Products and equipment
Move from a remembered machine, system or material toward manufacturers, trades and records.
Coworker and family memory
Names, crews, contractors and household memories can help corroborate the history.
Why the map will keep growing
New York’s industrial history is too varied for one generic list. H&S adds workplaces and records when reliable sources make them useful for a real investigation. The goal is not to publish the most names. It is to make the details a family remembers easier to connect to evidence.
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