Collections
![1913 Watervliet Flood](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XGY005.jpeg?itok=2FRkOXlM)
![Albany Law School Alumni](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YZA001.jpeg?itok=TZpNlBWd)
![Actors in "The Avalon" play](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/tupper_9344_medium.jpg?itok=V_7oWQbx)
This series contains photographs that document various arts programs in Tupper Lake ranging from community drama, local music groups and school bands, arts and crafts, and theater.
![Ashokan Reservoir Lost Profit Testimonies](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VGN002.jpg?itok=s9B4LL-v)
Journals recording testimonies from business owners who lost income due to the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir.
![Bowers Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Bowers%2520Collection.jpg?itok=X7fiKmf2)
![Brockport Village Glass Plate Negatives](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XBM001.jpeg?itok=aC4DvXKA)
![Buffalo City Directories](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VHB011.jpeg?itok=eXbhSp8_)
![Camp Awosting](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/camp-awosting-450.jpg?itok=tC_504RE)
This collection documents life at Camp Awosting, a summer camp for boys, originally located in Kerhonkson, NY.
![Camp Mills Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR046.jpg?itok=LlkqIYJO)
![volunteer cleaning gravestones, 2013](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screenshot%202023-03-23%20122106.png?itok=5PyzhUQN)
Gravestone transcriptions and other information about the cemeteries of Backbone Ridge, most of which were abandoned by the 20th century.
![HistoryForge logo and sample records](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/hf%20coll%20cover_0.jpg?itok=iLuzsj3h)
Datasets of fully transcribed United State Census records as completed by volunteers for the HistoryForge project.
![Champlain Canal Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Champlain_Barge_Canal_0031.jpg?itok=4YS1y7PJ)
Historical documents, images, and artifacts relating to the Chester, New York community.
![The Columbian Crew employee magazine, March-April, 1957](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YSCCC004.jpg?itok=p8gtk9Ej)
Photographs and ephemera from the Columbian Rope Company of Auburn.
![Crystal Beach](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VTP001.jpeg?itok=zQCO_I9N)
![1962-06-13 23rd International Convention Photo](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/GOHS-DAR.jpg?itok=BHDqytb0)
Yearbooks and pamphlets from the Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
![DeRuyter Town History Postcard Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR016.jpg?itok=w-pim2MY)
![Helen Alexander Diary, 1868](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/alexander1868.jpg?itok=hCk5IqCA)
Diaries of Helen Alexander, who lived in rural Cayuga County from 1838 to 1923.
![Ella Wheeler Glass-plate Negatives Collection - West Park in winter, 1902](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-12-14%2520at%25204.09.16%2520PM.png?itok=PULZXtwn)
These glass plate photographs of Oswego and family trips to Michigan, Connecticut, and the Thousand Islands were taken between 1900 and 1910 by photographer Ella Merrill Crippen Wheeler.
![Elmira College Historical Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Elmira%2520College%2520Historical%2520Collection.jpg?itok=OKq56cJH)
![Erie Canal Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/nyshs005.jpg?itok=OrrG-sUv)
![Family Bible Records Schoharie County NY](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XHT001-Middleburgh-Bible_0.jpeg?itok=h4ZrurVZ)
![Fayetteville Free Library's winning float in the 1916 Independence Day parade](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/default_5.jpg?itok=Fjk9ucDz)
The Fayetteville Free Library Collection is a small representation of various items celebrating the Fourth of July in 1916 in Fayetteville, New York.
Letters and photographs of the men who guarded the New York City Aqueduct during WWI.
![George W. Fenner World War I Photographs, Syracuse, NY, 1918](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR049.jpeg?itok=-gMr5eXb)
Photographs taken by George W. Fenner during World War I, documenting the people and activities supporting the war efforts in Syracuse, New York.