Collections
This collection features Acorn Stove trade cards from the collection of the Albany County Historical Association. The cards were created after 1850 to advertise Acorn Stoves, which were manufactured by the Albany company, Rathbone and Sard.
This collection of photographs features mines located in the Adirondack region around 1900.
The collection explores the role of African Americans in the General Electric workforce.
This collection contains materials related to the history of the city and county of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley from the 17th century to the present.
Corporate newsletters for the Aluminum Company of America plant located in Massena, NY.
Allan Herschell Company catalogs from the 20th century depicting amusement rides and devices.
Excerpts from a scrapbook documenting Hudson's Society to Promote Our Unique Town (SPOUT) initiative throughout the 1970s-80s. The scrapbook includes clippings, photographs, advertisements, posters, brochures, and administrative correspondence.
Journals recording testimonies from business owners who lost income due to the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir.
Atari pioneered the arcade video game and helped launch the video game revolution with the introduction of Pong (1972), the Home Pong console (1975), and the Atari 2600 (1977) during the 1970s. Initially as Atari Inc.
Photographs taken by the county historian's office in the 1970s of Urban Renewal demolitions.
Corning Community College owns an autograph collection of over 100 noted statesmen, presidents, Revolutionary War heroes and authors including Henry Clay, Jules Verne, Theodore Roosevelt to name a few.