Collections

Beauchamp Branch Photodocumentation Project, 1994

Photographs of an African American community in Syracuse, New York that were collected as part of a photo-documentation project.

Photograph of three children sitting on a hill

Photographs and ephemera highlighting Black history in Columbia County.

Child sits on a pony

Materials curated by Black Legacy Association of Columbia County (BLACC) to showcase the contributions made by the Black community to Columbia County from slavery to the present time.

Black Oral History Collection of Chemung County

This collection contains oral histories of members of Chemung County’s Black community, as well as whites involved in the Civil Rights movement.

Funeral program for Gladys Chase, Buffalo, NY

The purpose of the collection is to preserve the biographical and historical information that is found in printed funeral programs from the African-American community.