Collections
![Cover of the 1936-1947 Old Water Mill Guest Book.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR302.jpg?itok=C8bTuWCx)
Mid-20th century Hamptons tea room guest log.
![Abram Lincoln Letter Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XBQ003.jpeg?itok=W3PKulMx)
![Adirondack Scenic Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-05-24%2520at%25204.04.25%2520PM.png?itok=pFY8ADob)
![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.
![Albert Leffingwell Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YSW004.jpg?itok=1jr7JK8u)
Papers of Dr. Albert Leffingwell, including diaries, letters, and manuscripts from the 19th and 20th centuries.
![Sam and Bea Cox, c. 1950. Alice Houseknecht Collection, Montauk Library Archives.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR273.jpg?itok=eO_rbg-A)
Photographs of local business owners, motels, and hurricane damage in Montauk New York.
![Kitchen Line, Gosman's Restaurant, Labor Day Weekend, 1975.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR290.jpg?itok=cK7I21Rk)
Behind-the-scenes photographs of Gosman's Restaurant, Labor Day Weekend, 1975.
![The Wood family home and farm circa 1880.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR249_0.jpg?itok=KTVi9jjg)
Images of Lynbrook circa 1880-1915
![Bayle's Pamphlets](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR064.jpg?itok=jHpMxa-H)
Historical pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and fliers detailing the early history of Long Island.
![Beede Family Album](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Screen%2520Shot%25202017-05-25%2520at%25209.13.53%2520AM.png?itok=5aBSHCtp)
![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)
![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)
![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.
![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.
![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.
![Diary Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/PearsonNYHImage_Cover_Vol-AB_1828.jpg?itok=--YuKVGp)
The diaries of Jonathan Pearson, a notable Union College graduate who served as a professor, librarian, and treasurer at the college after graduating top of his class in 1835. It includes reflections on his time as both a student and faculty member, along with accounts of his travels.
![Dunham Family Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR067_0.jpg?itok=LX4NA6yM)
![Perry B. Duryea Jr. unloading lobsters from a seaplane, date unknown.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR330.jpg?itok=_GuOyQAz)
Photographs from three generations of Duryea and Kirk families of Montauk.