Collections
This collection contains photographs, postcards, art work, and images pertaining to the Champlain Canal that runs from the Hudson River at Waterford, NY to Lake Champlain.
Charles Rand Penney was a prominent collector. The Charles Rand Penney Trail unites his collections of Pan-American Exposition souvenirs, Papua New Guinea artifacts, Niagara County historical items, Larkin Company ephemera, and Niagara Falls artwork.
Postcards and photographs of steamboats, ships and ferries.
Postcards from the Hanford Mills Museum, showing Delaware County sites as well as other industrial and waterpower sites around New York State.
Photographs, Newspaper clipping, and postcards from Hicksville, NY.
Historic postcards from Hicksville, New York.
Historic images of the Hudson River Night Boats.
Images and documents relating to life in the Town of Olive up until the reservoir was built, including communities that were lost during the construction of the reservoir.
Historical photographs and postcards of Locust Valley, NY.
Items related to the history of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
Historic glass negatives, prints, and postcards depicting the Erie Canal and other waterways in New York and Canada from the collection of Emily and J. Hayward Madden of Livonia, NY
Photographs, postcards and documents about the mills of Waterloo, NY, especially the Waterloo Wool Manufacturing Company, a prominent business first established by Quakers to boycott slave-labor cotton.