Collections

Pearson Street Books

The Pearson Street Books consist of four volumes of notes and sketched maps created by Jonathan Pearson, city historian, about property ownership in the city of Schenectady, New York from the 1660s through the mid-nineteenth century.

Group photo in front of Jean Hasbrouck house

The collection features selected images of people and places in New Paltz, New York, and the surrounding region drawn from the Historic Huguenot Street Permanent Collection and Archives.

Personalities

Images of early aviators and pioneers of aviation on Long Island

Sepia photo

Collection of correspondence, photographs, and artifacts related to Peter Erwin (1910-1944) of the Arbor Hill neighborhood of Albany, NY, his wife Marjorie L. Walker (1915-1995), and daughter Effie Marie Erwin (1940-2021). Erwin was killed while serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII.

Phillip Trypuc Collection

Photographs of local businesses, events and people during the 1950s in and around Shirley, NY.

Four adults and one child in school.

Photographs of special events at Germantown Central School. 

Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, 20th Century

Photographs related to Cold Spring Harbor

Pierson War Journal

Digital version of a journal kept by Angelo Solimino during his service in World War II.