Collections

Black and white photograph

An assembled collection of family records of Albany County, NY residents collected at community history scanning events. The records date from 1894 to 2002 and document families in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Pulp Mill at Winchell's Falls

Materials documenting the history of the Ashokan Center property.

Bentley Snow Crystal Collection

Snow crystal images and their associated documentation taken by Wilson A. Bentley in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Best Family

This collection contains photographs and documents related to the Best family.

Boy Scouts of America, Troop 73, Voorheesville, New York Collection

The Scoutmaster of Troop 73, Howard C. Coughtry, created this collection about the troop's civic and recreational activities.

Camp Russell Boy Scouts Collection

This collection contains items from Camp Russell, a Boy Scout camp located in the Southwestern Adirondacks, dating from the early 1900s through the camp's closure in 2014.

Canastota Schools Collection

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

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.

Clarkson University History Collection

A collection of photographs and published materials relating to the history of Clarkson University

CLRC Archives

The CLRC Archives Collection includes images of member libraries and librarians. The images come from a 1975 slide presentation about the council, formerly known as CENTRO.

Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth Collection

This collection contains items related to the life of Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth.

The Columbian Crew employee magazine, March-April, 1957

Photographs and ephemera from the Columbian Rope Company of Auburn.

Crain Family Papers

This collection consists of documents relating to politics, business, foreign affairs, and the family’s personal affairs, which not only offer a glimpse into nineteenth century rural life in New York State, but detail machine politics on a regional, state, and national level into the early twenti

Crane School of Music

This collection contains photographs, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and sheet music relating to the history of the Crane School of Music dating between 1869 and 1993.

Crouse Hospital History

The Crouse Hospital History collection contains black & white and colored photographs of Crouse Hospital and the staff and students who resided there from the late nineteenth through twentieth centuries.

Crystal Beach

Photographs and ephemera relating to Crystal Beach during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Daniel Lamont Correspondence

Personal friend and secretary to NYS Governor Grover Cleveland. After Cleveland was elected President of the United States, Lamont was appointed his Secretary of War and close confidant.

Delhi Equal Suffrage Club Collection

Minute and treasurer books of the Delhi Equal Suffrage Club, along with a few letters and a photograph, dating from c1914.

Dentistry at the University of Rochester

A collection of images depicting the Rochester Dental Dispensary and School for Dental Hygienists in the early and mid-20th century.

Dudley Observatory Historical Archives

This collection contains artifacts relating to the history of the Dudley Observatory.

Dunham Family Collection

The Dunham Family History collection contains portraits, photographs, and various documents saved by the Dunham family.

Dutchess Community College History Collection

Photographs, documents, and ephemera reflecting the history of Dutchess Community College.

Early Education in the Hudson Valley

Photographs and documents reflecting the growth of education in the New Paltz area from early Huguenot days through the twentieth century.

Elmira College Women’s Rights and Suffrage Collection

Campus publications, photographs, student letters, student scrapbooks and official addresses that document the student, faculty and institutional role in the women’s rights movement.

Elon Howard Eaton Ornithology Collection

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.