Collections

Family Photo Collection
The Family Photo Collection contains photographs (bulk) of people, schools and students, groups, organizations and some area photographs such as the Erie Canal and street views, and some newspaper clippings.
Farmingdale Veterans History Project
Oral histories by Farmingdale Public Library Local History librarians of Farmingdale and neighboring town’s veterans.
Farmer at work

Photographs of farms and farmers working in the Town of Caroline.

index card annotation

Photographs of local farms taken and annotated by students.

Farrington Photograph Collection
The photographs include a number of street views and houses in Delhi, New York. Also included are a number of images of the Frank Farrington home on Elm Street, with pictures of his family. A series of images of a military camp appear to date from 1919 in Camp Lee, Virginia.
Ferris Meigs Logging Photograph Collection
The Santa Clara Logging Company, run by President Ferris Meigs, was a leader in timber conservation in the Adirondack region. This collection of photographs depicts the Santa Clara Logging Company and Meigs family.
an older Finnish woman sits in a sauna

Materials about the Finnish community of Spencer, including clippings about the Van Etten Communist Camp.

First Hundred Years
This collection contains photographs sharing the history of Russell Sage College.
Fletcher Steele Collection
Photographs and technical drawings of gardens designed by Landscape Architect Fletcher Steele in the 20th century.
Fletcher Steele Scrapbooks
This collection contains scrapbooks from noted landscape architect Fletcher Steele's travels and client work, featuring photographs spanning from 1882 to 1968.
Flooded street in 1972 Auburn

Fifteen color slides of the flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in June of 1972 as the Owasco River in Auburn crested.

Flooding Outside Gillette Hall

Images from Houghton College's archives from the flooding of 1972.

Flood of 1972, Genesee River in Letchworth State Park
In 1972, Hurricane Agnes caused the Genesee River to flood. This collection of photographs depicts the flooding of Letchworth State Park and Geneseo.
Floods of Chemung County

This digital collection derived from the Chemung County Historical Society’s archive and the Chemung County Library District’s collection, includes photographs, documents, video, and/or sound recordings about the floods that impacted Chemung County.

Corner of Seventh and Franklin Streets, flooded

Photographs and papers about the floods of Schuyler County.

Floral Fete Collection
The Floral Fete Collection contains souvenir programs, photographs, postcards, stereoviews, articles, and ephemera from Saratoga’s floral parades.
Florence Service Collection
This collection contains both the history that Florence P. Service wrote in 1902 and a portrait that was taken of her by the Obenaus Studios in Albany, New York.
Fort Orange Collection

Letters and photographs of the men who guarded the New York City Aqueduct during WWI.

Fort Plain Street Fair
This collection contains images and documents related to the Fort Plain Street Fair.
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.
Frank Estabrook Collection

This collection consists of pages from the 1895 "souvenir" book called "Sketches" that Estabrook created.

Frankfort Boy Scouts Collection
This collection contains photos and documents related to Troop 1, Frankfort, New York, which was established in 1910.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Family History in the Hudson Valley

Photographs, Correspondence, and other historical materials relating to the Roosevelt and Delano families.

Fred R. Wolcott Photographic Collection
The Wolcott Collection contains photographs taken by Fred Wolcott, who photographed and documented daily life on the Onondaga Nation Territory in the early 1900’s.
Freeport Historic Photographs
Photographs newspaper clippings, and postcards of Freeport, NY.