Collections
![Scene in Buffalo's Little Italy](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/thumbnail3%20ForeignPopulations_Scrapbook_Vol1_p103.jpg?itok=WfaikeCE)
The City of Buffalo, N.Y. rapidly grew from a small village along Lake Erie to a bourgeoning industrial hub with the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. The city later became a center for the Steel Industry and other manufacturing.
![First Barber Shop in Tupper Lake](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/tupper_9268_medium.jpg?itok=uMONEwqT)
The photographs in this series document a variety of businesses over Tupper Lake’s history from approximately 1880 to 2005.
![Camp Mills Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR046.jpg?itok=LlkqIYJO)
![Black and white photograph](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ACHA_CapitalDistrictAndUpstateNewYorkImages.jpg?itok=WeFu7XZP)
Images of Albany, Clinton, Rensselaer, and Schenectady Counties digitized from glass plate negatives. c.1893 - c. 1915
![Carrie Jones Family Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR092.jpg?itok=SFH82djU)
![Central Square Oral History Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR096.png?itok=yziEHmip)
![Southold Historical Society and Museum](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR066.jpg?itok=sQ8G_gOF)
Historic photograph collection, Long Island’s East End
![Charles Henry Miller Digital Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR103.jpg?itok=ukFFOG2q)
![Chatham Public Library Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/chatham-library-photographs.jpg?itok=bPxCn6B_)
Historical photographs of the village of Chatham and surrounding towns and hamlets.
![Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna Pennybacker on CWC Porch](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/eleanor.jpg?itok=ol7slQfk)
The Chautauqua Women’s Club, founded in 1889, has enjoyed a long, proud and vital history as an integral part of the Chautauqua experience.
![Cherry Hill Receipt Books](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/receiptbook1_msvr_1760_01.jpg?itok=MD3QMtWp)
A collection of manuscript cookbooks kept by several generations of Cherry Hill women (and a few men) spanning the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Historical documents, images, and artifacts relating to the Chester, New York community.
![Family Photo 1](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/tupper_9624_medium.jpg?itok=26GsiQhq)
This series includes a great number of photographs of various citizens from approximately 1860 to 2010 including candid pictures of individuals, group shots at various events.
![City Hall, Rochester, N.Y.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR008.png?itok=S9SRVouI)
The City Hall Photo Lab Contemporary Collection contains images depicting official City events and programs and documenting public works services and projects in Rochester between 1982 and 2010.
![Raging High Falls, Rochester, N.Y., in early 20th century](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR009.jpg?itok=MoygDpdB)
The City Hall Photo Lab Vintage Collection contains images selected from over 5,000 35mm slides made in 1984 from photographs, maps, renderings, and other graphics from Rochester’s past.
![Civil War Letters of Albert and Edward Bayles](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR244.jpg?itok=x1VrCK65)
Civil War era letters from two Middle Island, NY brothers.
![Clark Rice Photography Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/DJ.jpg?itok=e83sS90V)
![Clarkson University COVID-19 Interviews](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/CLARKSON008.jpg?itok=FTPRJUuM)
Students in Professor Laura Ettinger's History of Public Health in America course conducted audio interviews with relatives and friends about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their lives so that people in the future can learn about what it was like to live in 2020 and 2021.
![black and white image of a horse and carriage outside of bakery](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/WUQ002_0.png?itok=ijQnH3r6)
Photographs and postcards relating to the history of Claverack, N.Y.
!["Freeport As It Was" by Clinton E. Metz](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR286.jpg?itok=aJz73_CT)
Research by Freeport Village historian Clinton E. Metz
![Colonial Manuscripts](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/colonial%2520manuscripts%2520square.jpg?itok=gMy9txui)
Archival documents relating to the early development of the town of New Paltz, NY.
This collection includes postcards, images, and stereographs relating to Cornwall, N.Y.
This collection includes oral histories from Cornwall residents as they recall everyday life in the area.