Collections

Items relating to the move and restoration of the original Wantagh, NY train station

This collection contains photographs and documents sharing the history of the Altamont NY

Documents, postcards, and pictures pertaining to the construction of Ashokan Reservoir.

This collection contains images and documents related to the Battenkill River and surrounding area.

Photographs, postcards, and ephemera relating to the history of Big Flats and Chemung County.

This collection comprises photographs and postcards documenting various areas, people, and activities and events in and around Boonville, New York.

Postcards and stereographs of many Buffalo Olmsted Parks from the late 1800s to early 1900s.

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.

A collection of postcards and photographs shedding light on pivotal periods of Montauk’s history.

This collection contains photographs, postcards, art work, and images pertaining to the Champlain Canal that runs from the Hudson River at Waterford, NY to Lake Champlain.

Archival materials from the life of Charles Stoll with emphasis on the Stoll-McCracken Expedition to Alaska in 1928.

A collection of postcards showing the laboratories and workshops of Clarkson College from the early 20th century

Historical photographs of the Clarkstown Country Club, located in Nyack, NY.

Postcards and photographs documenting Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, a coeducational boarding school in Claverack, N.Y.

Photographs and postcards relating to the history of Claverack, N.Y.

A large collection of photographs and postcards showing individuals and places of interest associated with Colton, New York over a roughly 150 year period.

This collection is composed of photographs and publications of Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, NY.

Items from the papers of historian Elsie Gutchess, including primary and secondary materials relating to the history of women in the United States.

This collection contains photographs and postcards that share the history of the Village of Endicott.

Postcards, photographs and ephemera about the Erie Railroad in Hornell, NY.

This collection contains photographs sharing the history of Russell Sage College.

The Floral Fete Collection contains souvenir programs, photographs, postcards, stereoviews, articles, and ephemera from Saratoga’s floral parades.

Items of local historic Interest from the collections of residents and other sources

Historic glass and film negatives, prints, and postcards documenting life along New York State’s canals, including the Erie Canal, Black River Canal, and Champlain Canal from the collection of Albert Gayer.

A collection of photographs of the people, towns, and countryside of the southern Genesee Valley region during the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries.