Collections

Cortland County Radioactive Dump Collection

Cortland County Historical Society, SUNY Cortland Archives and Special Collections

In the late 1980s, New York State considered Cortland County for a new low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) dump. Local residents protested and ultimately, there was no dump.

Covid-19 Pandemic Photographs

History Center in Tompkins County

Photographs of Tompkins County people and places in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Images taken by various members of the local community.

Lantern Slide Collection

Freeport Memorial Library

Lantern Slides, on various topics, from the Freeport Memorial Library’s Long Island Room collection.

NJ Palisades Scanned Image Library

Palisades Interstate Park Commission

Images and historical documents related to the history of the Palisades region and the Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey.

Northport-East Northport Photograph Collection

Northport-East Northport Public Library

Historical photographs of the Northport-East Northport community.

Scrapbook page from Student Activity Board, 1970s

The People’s Record of Cortland County

SUNY Cortland Archives and Special Collections, Cortland County Historical Society

This collection shares numerous stories from those living within Cortland County as well as those working or studying at the State University of New York College at Cortland. It primarily includes audio recordings and digitized scrapbooks.

Quarantine Memories

Bethlehem Public Library

Personal memories from residents of the Town of Bethlehem from the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020.

Syracuse Houses That Are No Longer

Onondaga County Public Library - Central Library

The photographs in this collection depict homes and other buildings in the Syracuse region that are about to be demolished.