Collections
![Historic Views of Forest Lawn](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/MWAFL001.jpeg?itok=Qx1ltCp6)
![Cover of Views of Elmira](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YTZ006.jpg?itok=8dvhpF4h)
Popular reference books from the local history collection.
![History of the Village of Lakewood](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/lakewood.jpg?itok=4Qpcfb9B)
![Horse Thieves Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/horse-ledgers2.jpg?itok=-jxeQvoM)
The minute books from Red Hook's two societies for the detection and apprehension of horse thieves.
![James Milne SUNY Oneonta](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/James%2520Milne%2520SUNY%2520Oneonta.jpg?itok=rqE2KSDI)
![Greater Oneonta Historical Society Papers of Jessie Elvira Jenks](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Greater%2520Oneonta%2520Historical%2520Society%2520Papers%2520of%2520Jessie%2520Elvira%2520Jenks.jpg?itok=uAwZvb4V)
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.
![John H. Van Siclen Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR258.jpg?itok=9ww3lRne)
A portfolio of gelatin silver prints taken in Montauk in 1900.
![John Quincy Adams Ward Papers Digital Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/AIHA_Ward_landing%2520page.jpg?itok=gu_p8l0t)
![Lemuel Wiles' painting titled, Last Day of Summer](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XDZ003.jpg?itok=9PxQgtrD)
Paintings, sketches, and letters written by members of the Wiles Family including Lemuel Wiles, Rachel Ramsey Wiles, and Irving Wiles.
![Portrait of Lucy Carlisle Watson](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/4.5b.2_Watson%20Lucy_0.jpg?itok=2dIpt6Qv)
This collection of letters, diaries, and ephemera documents Lucy Carlile Watson, a prominent suffragette and philanthropist from Utica, NY.
![McBride Street Campus](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR036.jpeg?itok=DcU-akk9)
![Militia Enrollment Scrapbook 1888-1917](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VGW007.jpg?itok=Stf98bmZ)
Scrapbook listing the name of militia enrollees from Tuxedo Park.
![Museum Village Artifact Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/engine%2520square.jpg?itok=P5c5e6c8)
Historical artifacts including clothing, tools, and medical equipment.
![Northern Survey Company, Albany, NY](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Crandall_Northern_Survey.jpg?itok=aH9Cu6L6)
![Enumeration of the Inhabitants, Village of Weedsport, town of Brutus, Page 2](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NAU007.jpg?itok=uBk1d5md)
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.
![Robert Joki Stereoscopic Collection of Saratoga Springs NY](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XGA004-SSPL-Joki.jpeg?itok=RLzY8Z0L)
![Looking southwest from Exposition Park toward Dewey Avenue and the buildings of the City of Rochester's Department of Public Works. In the foreground, crowds surround the horse show arena. Behind the grandstand, cars fill the parking area. The larger white tent in the center has a sign reading "Tea Tent".](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR010.png?itok=8DPfpgHr)
This collection consists of images relating to Rochester selected from the Archives’ full collection of 10,000 glass plate negatives dated 1865-1920.
![Deininger Bros. Bakery, advertising card](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR003.png?itok=d_C9_0y0)
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.
![Scrapbook of Ablett Mill](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR068.jpeg?itok=IWs1fC6y)
A scrapbook of Ablett Mill, with interior and exterior photographs of the wool mill in Whitesboro.
![Second Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question, 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/sunynp-mohonk-conference.jpg?itok=1lu18z6d)
Proceedings from the Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question held at Lake Mohonk, Ulster County, New York, June 3, 4, 5, 1891.
![Page 32 from Spanish-American War: 23rd Separate Company Photo Album](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/haal-SpanAmWar032.jpg?itok=tz3Njetf)
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.
![Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-05-24%2520at%25204.10.58%2520PM.png?itok=erswAX4Z)