Collections
This collection includes articles, speech transcripts, reports, and other documents relating to the anti-slavery movement in Oneida County.
This collection contains materials created and maintained by the Overseers of the Poor of Schenectady, Glenville, and Rotterdam. These materials capture important information about the treatment and condition of poor people in Schenectady County in the 19th century.
An online newsletter published through Jesus the Liberator’s Prison Theology website.
PRISON THEOLOGY is an attempt to build a knowledge base that can offer solutions to “crime and punishment”. This theology was developed among multitudes of incarcerated people in the American empire. People most affected by punishment are
Beginning in 1777, this collection follows Roelof Josiah Eltinge through his legal troubles of being an accused loyalist in New Paltz, NY.
Board minutes from the Town of Red Hook in Dutchess County.
The Rochester Public Library Local History Division Picture File Collection contains diverse images relating to Rochester’s history.
Oral histories from employees, friends, and associates of the Roosevelt and Vanderbilt families.
Letters received or collected by Samuel Jones from his family, friends, and associates, and Samuel Jones’ diary which he kept from 1821 to 1855.
The fifteen scrapbooks are filled with mostly newspaper clippings from Penn Yan, NY newspapers from the very early 1900s through the 1950s. The books were created contemporaneously by attorney George S. Sheppard and his son Oliver.
Photos documenting Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) activities in Staatsburg, NY, during the 1930s.
Materials relating to Stephen Pearl Andrews and his family.
A hidden, limited collection within the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs records that demonstrate the complexity of the suffrage issue in the early 20th Century.
This collection covers the daily news stories in Onondaga County and the Onondaga Nation from 1965 to 1974, with an emphasis on activism and social justice history.