Collections
![A History of the Black Community of Syracuse](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR027.jpeg?itok=3qBf9ipq)
![New York Heritage Logo in Greyscale](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/default_images/NYH_Logo_Greyscale_0.png?itok=dbH4Dnpm)
Oral history interviews that document the immigrant experiences of Hudson Valley residents and their families.
![Huntington Deeds](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR164.jpg?itok=9bYoOLu4)
![Huntington Legal Manuscripts](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR166.jpg?itok=I49LAHHy)
![Black and white photograph](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/miSci_Americanization.jpg?itok=J3ri5AQt)
The collection documents General Electric's Americanization program, which existed from 1919 to 1931.
![Alessio Cuzzivoglio Certificate of Naturalization](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/OCHC037_Page_1.jpg?itok=OKX8KP4K)
This collection includes certificates and other documents for an immigrant who settled in Oneida County, as well as a civics textbook from Oneida County.
![Je Me Souviens...I Remember: Presenting and Preserving the Heritage of Upstate New York's Franco-American Communities](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/je_me_souviens.jpg?itok=4DWFbjpa)
![Jewish Buffalo Image Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/JBIC532_Pine_Street_Shul_and_the_young_Harold_Arlen_1910s.png?itok=5Mlzjw9f)
![La Bella America: From the Old Country to the North Country](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-12-15%2520at%25201.31.39%2520PM.png?itok=58BGMIpL)
![The Liberator](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZJ010.jpeg?itok=NZiRQrM7)
![Medieval and Early Modern Studies Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VKM002.jpeg?itok=etx5a8ae)
![National Anti-Slavery Standard](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Nat_Ant_Sla_Stan_0.jpeg?itok=eiMJx8Wr)
![National Freedman](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZJ012.png?itok=JkmsYPgb)
![photo of basket](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/crandall_1274_medium.jpg?itok=RZ0bqH37)
Handmade baskets by indigenous peoples living in present day United
States of America and Canada.
![New National Era](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/new_national_era.jpeg?itok=vU_xZ_Cp)
![New Rochelle Oral History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NYH_Logo_Greyscale_0_0.png?itok=yLyoNxOv)
A selection of oral history interviews from the New Rochelle Public Library.
![Blank Immigration form](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/immigration%20doc1024_1.jpg?itok=rUkvb0eA)
These case files are all of persons of Polish descent who arrived in Niagara Falls, NY and required assistance regarding citizenship. The International Institute provided translation and other services to these people.
![North Star](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/northstar_0.jpg?itok=BTyrxpTl)
A collection of the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, published by noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the mid-19th century.
![Beaded Bag](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/4.2a.2.1.5_NA%20Bead%20Bag.jpg?itok=Q5l8lhZo)
This collection contains tools and artwork from the Oneida Nation, as well as documents relating to the Oneida Reservation.
![An assortment of tapes from the collection.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR272.jpg?itok=rltNcGXI)
Audio recordings of Suffolk County residents.
![Overseas Relief Papers](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VX7001.jpg?itok=bEYmMcp8)
![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)
![Patricia Vidoni with sons David & Michael pose for Photo with Neighbors](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR190.jpg?itok=kyWC3H2S)
The Polish Heritage Collection contains several documents, photographs, scrapbooks, a “Golden Book,” and memorabilia from Utica’s Polish Community.
![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.