Collections
![African American Presence in the Hudson Valley](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/AA%2520experience%2520square.jpg?itok=ESiBHlf2)
Documents and photographs relating to African-American history in the early United States.
![Boy Scouts of America, Troop 73, Voorheesville, New York Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/vpl_Boy_Scout_0.jpg?itok=1WqIhCLl)
The Scoutmaster of Troop 73, Howard C. Coughtry, created this collection about the troop's civic and recreational activities.
![Canastota Schools Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR053.jpeg?itok=oR9gVqXs)
The Canastota Schools Collection contains school souvenirs, including programs, newsletters and photos of Canastota students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
![Carrie Jones Family Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR092.jpg?itok=SFH82djU)
A collection of materials on Jones family of Utica, New York providing detailed glimpse of family life and the community in Central New York during the mid-twentieth-century.
![Dentistry at the University of Rochester](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VQG001.jpeg?itok=r4WBuNG9)
A collection of images depicting the Rochester Dental Dispensary and School for Dental Hygienists in the early and mid-20th century.
![Dunham Family Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR067_0.jpg?itok=LX4NA6yM)
The Dunham Family History collection contains portraits, photographs, and various documents saved by the Dunham family.
![Elon Howard Eaton Ornithology Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZEM002_0.jpeg?itok=u4V5RozN)
Elon Howard Eaton (1866-1935) was a noted ornithologist and author of Birds of New York. This collection includes papers related to his research, correspondence, and genealogical materials, as well as photographs of Eaton.
![Elsie Gutchess Great Women of the USA Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YSW005.jpg?itok=DaZxWpun)
Items from the papers of historian Elsie Gutchess, including primary and secondary materials relating to the history of women in the United States.
![Frances Folsom Cleveland Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/p15085coll2_3667_large.jpg?itok=4eDK4b5u)
Collection of portraits, articles, memorabilia, and papers of Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, with emphasis on her time at Wells College, in the White House, and her time in Aurora, NY as a Wells College trustee and wife of Thomas Preston.
![Franklin D. Roosevelt's Family History in the Hudson Valley](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/FDR%2520family%2520square.jpg?itok=UsqbJPcd)
Photographs, Correspondence, and other historical materials relating to the Roosevelt and Delano families.
![Geneva Medical College, 1834-1871](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR007.jpeg?itok=ldOxJ_HU)
Geneva Medical College, a mid-19th century medical college, was the predecessor SUNY Upstate Medical University. The collection contains photographs and documents relating to Geneva Medical College and its alumni.
![A History of the Black Community of Syracuse](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR027.jpeg?itok=3qBf9ipq)
Photographs and documents from the mid-1800s to early-1900s, relating to African American life and history in Central New York.
![History of the Village of Lakewood](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/lakewood.jpg?itok=4Qpcfb9B)
Photographs and ephemera relating to Lakewood, New York in the early 20th century.
![Hospital of the Good Shepherd](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR035.jpeg?itok=fcP5P_ry)
Photographs and documents relating to Good Shepherd Hospital in Syracuse, New York, throughout its existence from the late-19th century to mid-20th century.
![League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/leaguewv.jpg?itok=7Y8T4Vn7)
Newsletters, newspaper articles, publications, meeting minutes and scrapbooks chronicling the history of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization from the early 20th century to present day.
![Leonard Family](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XHT008-Middleburgh-Leonard.jpeg?itok=8f1xNEYJ)
This collection contains photographs, news articles, and documents related to the Leonard Family of Middleburgh, New York area.
![Margaret Woodbury Strong Papers, 1897-1969](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZM001.jpeg?itok=ROkN0FHx)
Margaret Woodbury Strong amassed an outstanding collection of dolls and toys which formed the basis for The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
![Maria College Nursing 50th Anniversary Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Maria_vjv010_landing%2520page.jpg?itok=9NrvyYMx)
Celebrating 50 years of Nursing education at Maria College. Collection contains photographs, ephemera, manuscripts, articles, correspondence, booklets, announcements and press releases relating to the nursing program from its inception in 1970 to 2020.
![Mathias Oppersdorff Adirondack Faces Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-05-24%2520at%25204.13.02%2520PM.png?itok=-fegdOFi)
This collection of portraits, taken by Mathias Oppersdorff, portrays the residents of Adirondack Park in the late 20th century.
Mid-century photographs and documents relating to SUNY Upstate Medical University’s School of Nursing.
Photographs, documents, and other materials relating to a prominent Mohawk Valley family during the the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
![Rochester Artists](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/RRR011.jpeg?itok=YTGrzbFt)
A collection of documents, including letters and exhibition announcements, and a photograph relating to Rochester artists in the late 19th century.
![Rushton Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screenshot%25202017-12-15%2520at%25206.43.58%2520PM.png?itok=rXoaG_Ot)
This collection contains photographs, postcards, advertisements, and artifacts pertaining to Adirondack boatbuilder John Henry Rushton.
![Sayville Library Long Island Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR240.png?itok=7_scVj_N)
Items from the Local History Collection of the Sayville Library.