Collections

Audio recordings of Ward Melville, his family, and associates.

Historic photographs and documents from the Merrick Library.

Photographs, postcards and documents about the mills of Waterloo, NY, especially the Waterloo Wool Manufacturing Company, a prominent business first established by Quakers to boycott slave-labor cotton.

Photographs of historic places and architecture in the community of New Hartford, New York.

This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to the Newark Public Library throughout the 20th century.

Photographs of Buffalo and Western New York during the 19th and early 20th centuries collected by George Nathan Newman.

20th century images relating to the people and places in the Oceanside community.

Photos of a variety of buildings in Oswego County.

This collection explores the contributions to the world made by James Ward Packard and his close family from the 1860’s to 1960. The Packard family was made up of inventors, business men, trail blazers, and philanthropists.

This collection contains images, postcards, maps, and documents related to Patterson NY history.

Photographs of local businesses, events and people during the 1950s in and around Shirley, NY.

Photographs related to Cold Spring Harbor

Photographs of places of worship in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Mid-20th century photographs of Lockport, New York by Edwin Polster.

The Port Washington Library History Collection contains images from the planning and construction of the library in the mid-1960s to life and library activities that have taken place since that time.

A collection of photographs of residences, divided by architectural style, in Ithaca and Tompkins County, NY from the General Photo File of the History Center in Tompkins County.

Information and images of Riverhead, NY

The Rochester Public Library Local History Division Picture File Collection contains diverse images relating to Rochester’s history.

This collection contains photographs, postcards, advertisements, and artifacts pertaining to Adirondack boatbuilder John Henry Rushton.

Historical photographs of the Sag Harbor, NY community.

Items from the Local History Collection of the Sayville Library.

Images of farms, businesses, and related people from Schuyler County.

Photos, written histories, and ephemera pertaining to the sea captains who lived in Rockville Centre, NY in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Photographic prints showing ships and ship construction on the Rondout Creek in Kingston, New York.

Photographs of Kingston, New York signs and their accompanying buildings from the archives of the Friends of Historic Kingston.