Collections
![Palisades, NY History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/palisades%2520%2528square%2529.jpg?itok=vZCWONzY)
![Pan-American Exposition Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NYTRI001_2015.002.png?itok=Bx127G0F)
![Pan-American Exposition Scrapbooks](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VHB009.jpeg?itok=R3R8nu42)
![Parishville-Hopkinton Central School Yearbooks](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-05-25%2520at%252011.03.45%2520AM.png?itok=jAWK47z1)
This collection consists of issues of the Panorama dating between 1950 and 2007.
![James B. Schafer speaking to a crowd at Peace Haven, 1939](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR270.jpg?itok=X0g5JowE)
Photographs of the Idle Hour estate as “Peace Haven.”
![Pearl River, NY History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Pearl%2520River%2520%2528square%2529.jpg?itok=KeGR9d2j)
Images, documents, and ephemera relating to the formation and development of Pearl River, New York.
![Spencer Looking North](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/spencer.jpg?itok=CV0s23HD)
Photographs and ephemera of Spencer, NY, including class pictures, farms, hotels, and more glimpses of the community.
![Scrapbook page from Student Activity Board, 1970s](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SABscrapbooks.jpg?itok=P7E-jTla)
This collection shares numerous stories from those living within Cortland County as well as those working or studying at the State University of New York College at Cortland. It primarily includes audio recordings and digitized scrapbooks.
![1930 Chenango County Census Takers](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/1973.15.1.346.jpg?itok=hYD904yq)
Photographs, postcards, and ephemera relating to the history of Norwich and Chenango County.
![Transcript of Interview With Mary Louise Stilwell, 2010](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screenshot%202023-03-23%20122531.png?itok=66HjNE3j)
Oral histories and diaries from the Backbone Ridge of the Finger Lakes National Forest.
![Phillip Trypuc Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR157.jpg?itok=skERicQd)
![Scrapbooks and Albums at HSERL](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR251.jpg?itok=2Gc7f4hy)
Scrapbooks and Albums created by residents of Lynbrook, NY and the surrounding villages.
![Four adults and one child in school.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/1996GrandparentsDay0048.jpg?itok=eVftkge4)
Photographs of special events at Germantown Central School.
![Piermont, NY History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Piermont%2520%2528square%2529.jpg?itok=1V9oE7Eo)
Documents, maps, images, and ephemera related to the village of Piermont, New York.
![Polish Community of Syracuse, NY](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ABC_Bowling_Tournament_Syracuse_1958_Team_from_Syracuse_Polish_Home_team_1_0.jpg?itok=MsvoORYJ)
![Patricia Vidoni with sons David & Michael pose for Photo with Neighbors](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR190.jpg?itok=kyWC3H2S)
The Polish Heritage Collection contains several documents, photographs, scrapbooks, a “Golden Book,” and memorabilia from Utica’s Polish Community.
![Port Washington Library History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR080.jpg?itok=WRFTi10H)
The Port Washington Library History Collection contains images from the planning and construction of the library in the mid-1960s to life and library activities that have taken place since that time.
![Port Washington Main Street Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR081.jpg?itok=XMDOuRca)
![Portraits of Hope Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/17Fatuma-1124-72.jpg?itok=8qecoxbk)
The exhibition Portraits of Hope: Faces of Refugee Resettlement in Central New York depicted survivors of war, genocide, and political strife who came to the U.S. and settled in the Utica region after living in refugee camps in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
![Postcard from Interlaken](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/BRHG005.jpg?itok=y3Rud4Np)
Postcards collected by the Backbone Ridge History Group showing the communities between Seneca and Cayuga Lake.
![Postcards of Syracuse and Central New York](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR123_0.jpg?itok=WkPwiP1e)
![48 Proctorian](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/default%20%281%29_0.jpg?itok=9tRo9efL)
This contains yearbooks from the Proctor High School, later renamed to Thomas R. Proctor High School, and covers some of the years from 1940-1970.
![Lynbrook Celebrates Grade Crossing Elimination, Monday, January 2nd, 1939](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR253.jpg?itok=lv3dbjFB)
Various publications promoting the evolution of the East Rockaway and Lynbrook communities.
![Public Square Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR026.jpeg?itok=QB4KruY1)
In 1798, seven and a half acres were set aside for a public square in the center of the village, which is documented in this collection through photographs and other documents.