Collections
![Abram Lincoln Letter Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XBQ003.jpeg?itok=W3PKulMx)
![Camp Mills Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR046.jpg?itok=LlkqIYJO)
![Civil War Letters of Albert and Edward Bayles](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR244.jpg?itok=x1VrCK65)
Civil War era letters from two Middle Island, NY brothers.
![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.
![Don Schultz (1933-2013)](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR316.jpg?itok=OtmcYoGh)
Scrapbooks assembled by Don Schultz depicting boyhood during WWII (World War, 1939-1945)
![Francis M. and Henry H. Stone Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Stone%2520Collection.jpg?itok=a8BXK-_A)
![Ingraham P. Smith Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Smith%2520Collection2.jpg?itok=cCc-g9E6)
![Joseph H. Treyz Collection of Civil War Patriotic Envelopes](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Treyz%2520Collection.jpg?itok=F1FYJJCF)
![Leo Bock’s wife, Lillian Bock and their two children, Walter and Marie in a field of daisies in Lynbrook, NY. Circa 1912.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR126_0.jpg?itok=ivTZ2vK3)
Images of Lynbrook captured by Leo H. Bock, a long time Lynbrook resident.
![Lewis H. Brown Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Brown%2520collection.jpg?itok=WZ1UE5Tp)
![Luca D'Auria in Uniform](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/2022.0062.png?itok=_HH-5AxI)
The collection includes both military photos from the 52nd General Hospital and personal family photos of Luca, his wife Lilian, and their relatives.
![Military Memories & Veterans' Voices Oral History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VPL_VetsOralHistory.jpg?itok=Z9qm-WSH)
Military Memories & Veterans' Voices was a program held at the Library on December 3rd, 2017. The collection consists of five oral histories and photographs.
![Sepia photo](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/p16694coll94_1015_medium.jpg?itok=mhQDO-5N)
Correspondence, photographs, and artifacts related to Peter Erwin (1910-1944) of the Arbor Hill neighborhood of Albany, New York, his wife Marjorie L. Walker (1915-1995), and daughter Effie Marie Erwin (1940-2021).
![Senate House Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/square_0.jpg?itok=GmTQX7Zr)
A sampling of documents from the Colonial period and Revolutionary War.
![Ten Eyck Fonda Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Eyck%2520Collection.jpg?itok=dDd9uqIT)
![Soldier seated with rifle](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/wilder.jpg?itok=KMJRoCj7)
The Western New York and the Civil War collection represents a cooperative initiative between the State University of New York at Buffalo and numerous historical societies from the Western New York counties of Erie and Niagara to share local history collections with
![Pilot Clifford Windsor Sr., World War I, 1910s](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR308.jpg?itok=NZe-rhxI)
Photographs documenting Montauk from the 1910s to the 1960s.