Collections

Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna Pennybacker on CWC Porch

The Chautauqua Women’s Club, founded in 1889, has enjoyed a long, proud and vital history as an integral part of the Chautauqua experience.

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.

A mother and daughter in portrait

Photographs, postcards, and ephemera relating to the farm women of Dryden, New York.

 

two librarians smiling

Materials from the Dundee Woman's Study Club of Dundee, NY.

Elmira College Historical Collection

This is a collection of photographs of Elmira College dating from the founding in 1855 through the mid-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.

Elsie Gutchess Great Women of the USA Collection

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

Frances Folsom Cleveland Collection

Collection of portraits, articles, memorabilia, and papers of Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, with emphasis on her time at Wells College, in the White House, and her time in Aurora, NY as a Wells College trustee and wife of Thomas Preston.

George Michaels Speaking in NYS Assembly Chamber

Materials relating to NYS Assemblyman George M. Michaels, who represented Cayuga County. He's best known for his pivotal vote for the passage of abortion rights in New York State.

Images of Early Vassar

Historical images of early Vassar College including people, buildings and activities.

Isabel Howland and Friends Having Tea

Correspondence of Isabel Howland's and ephemera from the Howland Store Stone Museum's collection.

Jennie Curtis Cannon Collection

Miscellaneous materials concerning Jennie Curtis Cannon (Mrs. Henry White Cannon), including a scrapbook and other material related to her activities in the women’s suffrage movement.

League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara

Newsletters, newspaper articles, publications, meeting minutes and scrapbooks chronicling the history of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization from the early 20th century to present day.

New York State Women's Suffrage Exhibition Collection

Items pertaining to the women's suffrage movement in New York State, 1848-1917.

Carrie Theodore Partridge

The collection consists of a variety of documents from the Partridge family.

Rose Spadaccino portrait

Records, photographs and documents of Rose Spadaccino Muccigrosso (1873-1950), an Italian immigrant and midwife serving Elmira's Italian community.

Somers Wright Reis Collection

Photos of Caroline Wright Reis and the Wright Reis homestead as well as ephemera documenting Wright Reis’ daily life.

Twentieth Century Club of Buffalo

Photographs and documents relating to the Twentieth Century Club, a women’s club founded in Buffalo in the late 19th century to promote education and the arts.

Frances A. Goodale, Founder and First President of the New Century Club

This collection includes a portrait of Lucy Carlisle Watson and a manuscript describing the history of Utica's women's rights movements.

Vassar Brothers Hospital first year student nurses with instructor 1959

Photographs, mementos, yearbooks and scrapbook pages from the VBH School of Nursing.

Last Day of Classes Opening Convocation Program and Candle

Photographs of Wells College as submitted by alumni after its closure.

Onieda Community Silverplate Ad, 1955

This collection of advertisements, objects, periodical articles, photographs, and diary entries gives a window into the roles of women in the Oneida Community and the companies that it founded.

Two mothers and their young children, sitting outside

Photographs of women from the general file of women in Cayuga County.

Women of Fayetteville Collection

The Women of Fayetteville collection comprises images of Fayetteville women and their activities dating back to the 19th century.