Collections

This collection covers various moments of daily life in the city and Onondaga County from the 1920s to 1950s.

Scrapbooks dating from 1874 to 1930 that document Cobleskill, NY and Schoharie County. They were compiled by local resident Daisy Brown.

Photographs related to the Danforth family of Jefferson, New York. 

Photographs, including aerial views, of Montauk and the buildings that define it, along with group shots of people, and their organizations and activities, including a large number of photographs documenting the heyday of Montauk sportfishing.

Postcards written by David Eugene Smith, an internationally acclaimed mathematician, to his niece and sister in Cortland.

Diaries of Helen Alexander, who lived in rural Cayuga County from 1838 to 1923.  

Diaries written by Henry Wilcox in Oneonta, NY.

This series includes photographs showing both natural and man-made disasters that occured in Tupper Lake from1899 to approximately 2010. This includes floods, fires, murder, car accidents, low water, and wind storms.

Scrapbooks assembled by Don Schultz depicting boyhood during WWII (World War, 1939-1945)

Photographs, newspaper articles, postcards, and ephemera from and pertaining to the Agricultural Fair held in Dryden, New York.

This collection includes board minutes from Dunham Public Library in Whitesboro, New York, spanning from the formation of the library until 2015.