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. 

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.

Notable Freeport High School athletes.

Photographs newspaper clippings, and postcards of Freeport, NY.

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

Historical photographs of the college, including several aerial shots of the campus.

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.

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

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

Materials used for the Urban Renewal in New York State exhibit.

Local history images from pop-up digitization events.