Collections

Walt Whitman Collection
Photographs of the birth place and a manuscript of Walt Whitman.
Washingtonville Historic Postcard Collection

Postcards depicting various street scenes and local landmarks of Washingtonville and Blooming Grove.

The Way We Were Town of Saratoga
The Way We Were Town of Saratoga collection includes vintage postcards and photographs with descriptive captions from the first half of the 20th Century in the Villages of Victory and Schuylerville along with the Town of Saratoga.
West Hempstead Local History
The West Hempstead Local History collection contains photographs pertaining to the history of the West Hempstead area.
Margarita Phipps, her son Michael and his wife Molly, posing at Westbury House

Images chronicling the Phipps family and their lives at Westbury House.

Westbury Local History
The Westbury Local History collection consists of still image photographs which tell the history of the Westbury area.
Western New York County Atlases
A collection of maps detailing the Western New York region in the mid-to-late 19th century.
Winston C. Perry Jr. Collection

Photographs and ephemera either donated or lent to the Nyack Library by Winston C. Perry, Jr. This includes images of local landscapes, architecture, people, and events.

World War I Era Postcard Collection
This collection is a collection of World War I-era postcards that were a gift to Union College from William Nelson Potter Dailey, a member of the class of 1884.
World's Fair Items Dr. Best House & Medical Exhibit
This collection contains items relating to the World’s Fair.