Collections
![Adirondack Scenic Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-05-24%2520at%25204.04.25%2520PM.png?itok=pFY8ADob)
![Detail of photo 61962 showing local development.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR326.jpg?itok=JTkAfM4P)
Aerial photos of Brentwood, LI from 1960.
![African American Presence in the Hudson Valley](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/AA%2520experience%2520square.jpg?itok=ESiBHlf2)
Documents and photographs relating to African-American history in the early United States.
![Sam and Bea Cox, c. 1950. Alice Houseknecht Collection, Montauk Library Archives.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR273.jpg?itok=eO_rbg-A)
Photographs of local business owners, motels, and hurricane damage in Montauk New York.
![Kitchen Line, Gosman's Restaurant, Labor Day Weekend, 1975.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR290.jpg?itok=cK7I21Rk)
Behind-the-scenes photographs of Gosman's Restaurant, Labor Day Weekend, 1975.
![The Wood family home and farm circa 1880.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR249_0.jpg?itok=KTVi9jjg)
Images of Lynbrook circa 1880-1915
![Augustin Family Collection, 1890 - 1957](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR256_0.jpg?itok=xaBi4sia)
Small collection of photographs from the Frederick Julius Augustin family.
![Beauchamp Branch Photodocumentation Project, 1994](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR059.jpeg?itok=cvxyciZ0)
![Beede Family Album](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-05-25%2520at%25209.13.53%2520AM.png?itok=5aBSHCtp)
![Big Flats and Chemung County Historical Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NYBFHC001.jpg?itok=OUFurbN4)
![NYPL Librarian Robert W. Henderson's (1888-1985) Bookplate](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR281.jpg?itok=XC6coxFj)
Historic bookplates at St. Joseph's University - Callahan Library.
![First Barber Shop in Tupper Lake](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/tupper_9268_medium.jpg?itok=uMONEwqT)
The photographs in this series document a variety of businesses over Tupper Lake’s history from approximately 1880 to 2005.
![Camp Mills Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR046.jpg?itok=LlkqIYJO)
![Black and white photograph](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ACHA_CapitalDistrictAndUpstateNewYorkImages.jpg?itok=WeFu7XZP)
Images of Albany, Clinton, Rensselaer, and Schenectady Counties digitized from glass plate negatives. c.1893 - c. 1915
![Carrie Jones Family Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR092.jpg?itok=SFH82djU)
![Southold Historical Society and Museum](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR066.jpg?itok=sQ8G_gOF)
Historic photograph collection, Long Island’s East End
![Chatham Public Library Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/chatham-library-photographs.jpg?itok=bPxCn6B_)
Historical photographs of the village of Chatham and surrounding towns and hamlets.
![Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna Pennybacker on CWC Porch](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/eleanor.jpg?itok=ol7slQfk)
The Chautauqua Women’s Club, founded in 1889, has enjoyed a long, proud and vital history as an integral part of the Chautauqua experience.
Historical documents, images, and artifacts relating to the Chester, New York community.
![Family Photo 1](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/tupper_9624_medium.jpg?itok=26GsiQhq)
This series includes a great number of photographs of various citizens from approximately 1860 to 2010 including candid pictures of individuals, group shots at various events.
![City Hall, Rochester, N.Y.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR008.png?itok=S9SRVouI)
The City Hall Photo Lab Contemporary Collection contains images depicting official City events and programs and documenting public works services and projects in Rochester between 1982 and 2010.
![Raging High Falls, Rochester, N.Y., in early 20th century](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR009.jpg?itok=MoygDpdB)
The City Hall Photo Lab Vintage Collection contains images selected from over 5,000 35mm slides made in 1984 from photographs, maps, renderings, and other graphics from Rochester’s past.
![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.
![Clark Rice Photography Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/DJ.jpg?itok=e83sS90V)