Collections
![priest within a church apse](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/CMHI004.jpg?itok=2e9cNyQE)
Photographs of various religious institutions in Cayuga County.
![Gospel Messenger Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/p16694coll95_670.png?itok=KcCUW-9k)
The Gospel Messenger is a weekly church newspaper begun in 1827 in Auburn, and the forerunner of the e-mail newsletter, The Messenger. It provides a wealth of information about the growth of the Episcopal Church throughout the nineteenth century in upstate New York.
![Rockville Centre, L.I. Episcopal Church](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR235.jpeg?itok=9ioaPT4T)
Photographs and printed materials relating to houses of worship in Rockville Centre, NY
![Temple Israel Graduation Group](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YTP006.jpg?itok=BPsFOeMY)
Photographs from the Jewish community of Broome County.
![Lily Dale Postcards](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZCQ002.jpeg?itok=Xoh7Zbnv)
A collection of postcards depicting the Spiritualist community, Lily Dale, in the early 20th century
![The first page of the first circuit book that reads: Church Records of Hempstead Circuit](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR254.jpg?itok=o_iQhSbx)
Four books listing marriages, baptisms, deaths, membership and financial records.
![Naples Library Manuscripts and Documents](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XEI002.png?itok=tHxK9YEy)
The handwritten autobiography of John C. Morgan, a Presbyterian Minister and Missionary in the Naples, New York region during the mid 19th century.
![Picture of the New Church being blessed](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/OL-01-23-01.jpg?itok=kY0AyaPh)
This collection includes photographs, documents, correspondence, and other ephemera documenting Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, which was founded in April 1919 in Utica, NY.
![James B. Schafer speaking to a crowd at Peace Haven, 1939](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR270.jpg?itok=X0g5JowE)
Photographs of the Idle Hour estate as “Peace Haven.”
A collection of church records from the German Evangelical Lutheran Church and Penfield United Methodist Church.
![Onieda Community Silverplate Ad, 1955](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR195.png?itok=3JTXQR9a)
This collection of advertisements, objects, periodical articles, photographs, and diary entries gives a window into the roles of women in the Oneida Community and the companies that it founded.