Collections

Civil War Letters of Albert and Edward Bayles

Civil War era letters from two Middle Island, NY brothers.

Leo Bock’s wife, Lillian Bock and their two children, Walter and Marie in a field of daisies in Lynbrook, NY. Circa 1912.

Images of Lynbrook captured by Leo H. Bock, a long time Lynbrook resident.

Luca D'Auria in Uniform

The collection includes both military photos from the 52nd General Hospital and personal family photos of Luca, his wife Lilian, and their relatives.

Military Memories & Veterans' Voices Oral History Collection

Military Memories & Veterans' Voices was a program held at the Library on December 3rd, 2017. The collection consists of five oral histories and photographs.

Sepia photo

Correspondence, photographs, and artifacts related to Peter Erwin (1910-1944) of the Arbor Hill neighborhood of Albany, New York, his wife Marjorie L. Walker (1915-1995), and daughter Effie Marie Erwin (1940-2021). 

Roberta Walsh Family Collection
Photographs, documents, and other materials relating to a prominent Mohawk Valley family during the the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Soldier seated with rifle

The Western New York and the Civil War collection represents a cooperative initiative between the State University of New York  at Buffalo and numerous historical societies from the Western New York counties of Erie and Niagara to share local history collections with

Pilot Clifford Windsor Sr., World War I, 1910s

Photographs documenting Montauk from the 1910s to the 1960s.