Collections
![Children Out of School for the Holiday](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/1988.175_1950s_SchoolHolidaythumbnail.jpg?itok=5eF644tw)
This collection covers various moments of daily life in the city and Onondaga County from the 1920s to 1950s.
![Drug Company Statements Dr. Best House & Medical Exhibit](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XHT005-Middleburgh-drugs.jpeg?itok=ofou8h4d)
This collection contains documents relating to prescription drugs and Dr. Best.
![Early Canastota Business Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR048.jpeg?itok=Wj-4cyo1)
The Early Canastota Business Collection contains documents and newspaper clippings about the first businesses in Canastota, NY.
![GE Research Lab Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/nysmu004.jpg?itok=clJ-4tUr)
This collection contains images documenting the inventors and inventions of the GE Research Laboratory from 1900 - 1990.
![General Electric Historical Documents](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NYSMU002-miSci-GE-Historical.jpg?itok=Wl7eSeFY)
The collection features text documents highlighting the history of General Electric and its founders.
![General Electric Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/nysmu001.jpg?itok=BZAX7jLj)
This collection contains General Electric publicity photographs taken between 1880 - 1970.
![The Great Steamboat Race Letters](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR088.jpeg?itok=T7f8YDKv)
The Great Steamboat Race Letters collection features contest entries that proposed innovative designs for steam powered canal boats.
![Lenox Memorial Hospital Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR052.png?itok=C3wbqfiJ)
The Lenox Memorial Hospital Collection contains documents and newspaper clippings about the hospital that served the area in the early to mid-twentieth century.
![Mining Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NNYLN02-002.jpeg?itok=uxNJiOut)
A collection of mineral samples, artifacts, and photographs relating to the history of mining in Essex County
![Cathedral radio](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NYSMU0026-03.jpg?itok=dmpC8V8k)
Selected objects from miSci’s collection of 15,000 science and technology artifacts.
![Nancy Fitzroy standing between two seated male colleagues at the GE Research Center. There is a chalkboard with writing on it behind them.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/miSci_Nancy_Fitzroy_landingpage.jpg?itok=A2v0sAZX)
Papers of one of the first female engineering graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949.
![Nickell Collection of Dr. R.V. Pierce Medical Artifacts](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZCQ001.jpeg?itok=C4XjmZmc)
Samples of advertisements and packaging used by Dr. R.V. Pierce to market his products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
![Nickell Snake Oil Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZCQ003.jpeg?itok=JoaIWdF6)
A collection of advertisements, packaging, and other materials relating to the snake oil and patent medicine trade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
![William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript 1886](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/RVE001_weeden_58.jpg?itok=n9NwIL5U)
The William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript is an inventor's hand-written account in 1886 of his discovery of a printing method that produced multi-color printing with one impression. The collection includes color prints generated by the process.