Collections
Popular reference books from the local history collection.
The minute books from Red Hook's two societies for the detection and apprehension of horse thieves.
The Jenks family papers include letters written to Willard S. Jenks and his wife, Rhoda, from their daughter, Jessie Elvira Jenks. Jessie lived from 1873-1964.
A portfolio of gelatin silver prints taken in Montauk in 1900.
Paintings, sketches, and letters written by members of the Wiles Family including Lemuel Wiles, Rachel Ramsey Wiles, and Irving Wiles.
This collection of letters, diaries, and ephemera documents Lucy Carlile Watson, a prominent suffragette and philanthropist from Utica, NY.
Scrapbook listing the name of militia enrollees from Tuxedo Park.
Historical artifacts including clothing, tools, and medical equipment.
Historical materials from the town of Brutus in Cayuga County.
A ledger containing records from soldiers who served in Ward Post 191 during the Civil War.
This collection consists of images relating to Rochester selected from the Archives’ full collection of 10,000 glass plate negatives dated 1865-1920.
This collection consists of images of ephemera taken from the vertical file collection ("pamphlet file") of the Rochester Public Library's Local History & Genealogy Division.
A scrapbook of Ablett Mill, with interior and exterior photographs of the wool mill in Whitesboro.
Proceedings from the Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question held at Lake Mohonk, Ulster County, New York, June 3, 4, 5, 1891.
This album dates from 1889-1890 and is a collection of photographs of soldiers with the 23rd Separate Company, recruited for the Spanish-American War and serving at Camp Wetherill near Greenville, South Carolina.
This collection documents the history of higher education in New Paltz, NY.