Collections
![Palisades, NY History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/palisades%2520%2528square%2529.jpg?itok=vZCWONzY)
![Pan-American Exposition Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NYTRI001_2015.002.png?itok=Bx127G0F)
![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.”
![Pearl River, NY History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Pearl%2520River%2520%2528square%2529.jpg?itok=KeGR9d2j)
Images, documents, and ephemera relating to the formation and development of Pearl River, New York.
![Spencer Looking North](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/spencer.jpg?itok=CV0s23HD)
Photographs and ephemera of Spencer, NY, including class pictures, farms, hotels, and more glimpses of the community.
![Scrapbook page from Student Activity Board, 1970s](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SABscrapbooks.jpg?itok=P7E-jTla)
This collection shares numerous stories from those living within Cortland County as well as those working or studying at the State University of New York College at Cortland. It primarily includes audio recordings and digitized scrapbooks.
![1930 Chenango County Census Takers](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/1973.15.1.346.jpg?itok=hYD904yq)
Photographs, postcards, and ephemera relating to the history of Norwich and Chenango County.
![Phillip Trypuc Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR157.jpg?itok=skERicQd)
![Scrapbooks and Albums at HSERL](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR251.jpg?itok=2Gc7f4hy)
Scrapbooks and Albums created by residents of Lynbrook, NY and the surrounding villages.
![Piermont, NY History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Piermont%2520%2528square%2529.jpg?itok=1V9oE7Eo)
Documents, maps, images, and ephemera related to the village of Piermont, New York.
![Polish Community of Syracuse, NY](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ABC_Bowling_Tournament_Syracuse_1958_Team_from_Syracuse_Polish_Home_team_1_0.jpg?itok=MsvoORYJ)
![Port Washington Library History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR080.jpg?itok=WRFTi10H)
The Port Washington Library History Collection contains images from the planning and construction of the library in the mid-1960s to life and library activities that have taken place since that time.
![Portraits of Hope Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/17Fatuma-1124-72.jpg?itok=8qecoxbk)
The exhibition Portraits of Hope: Faces of Refugee Resettlement in Central New York depicted survivors of war, genocide, and political strife who came to the U.S. and settled in the Utica region after living in refugee camps in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
![Public Square Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR026.jpeg?itok=QB4KruY1)
In 1798, seven and a half acres were set aside for a public square in the center of the village, which is documented in this collection through photographs and other documents.