Collections
![NY Ontario & Western Railway Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR012.jpeg?itok=V3R7XI-T)
This collection contains photographs of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway near Hamilton, NY.
![Oceanside Community](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR133.jpg?itok=4qrF2YOr)
20th century images relating to the people and places in the Oceanside community.
![Oceanside's Bicentennial Celebration](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR116.png?itok=NqVB7VMq)
![Onondaga Community College Historic Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/occhistoric_013_0.jpg?itok=w_QwwoT7)
![Image of tapes](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Oral%20Histories%20of%20Lockport%2C%20NY%20logo.jpg?itok=jZPeqxjp)
Oral histories collected from 20th century Lockport, NY, residents
![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.
![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.
![Quarantine Memories](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/bpl_Quarantine.jpg?itok=u_TJKtwx)
Personal memories from residents of the Town of Bethlehem from the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020.
![Young Eh Ka Paw and Young Nyi Nyi Aung](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Eh%20Ka%20Paw_0011_a.jpg?itok=VMjX0rVc)
"Refugee Family Photos Before Resettlement to CNY," stemmed from community interest in archiving old photos and photo albums that refugees brought with them to the United States from their former homes in Burma, Thailand, Kenya, and refugee camps along the borders of those countries.
![Refugees Starting Over Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/RBDB_C339.jpg?itok=J4KhfJ0z)
![Residential Albany, New York](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/xfn003-apl-residual.jpg?itok=AxXJo0Dy)