Collections

Walter T. Shirley Collection
Photographs and meeting minutes from Shirley's real estate business.
Ward Manor Collection

A collection of postcards and photographs of Ward Manor in the 1920's. Ward Manor was a home for the poor and elderly as well as a summer camp for youth.

Washingtonville Historic Postcard Collection

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

Section of cover of 1980 Water Mill Welcomes You WMBA directory.

Historical publications of the Water Mill Business Association

Waterbury Mill
Photographs and business documents relating to the Waterbury Mill, a felt mill in Oriskany, New York in operation for over a century.
Watertown City Directories
The Watertown City Directory digital collection contains a subset of the City Directories located in the Flower Memorial Library (Watertown, NY).
Postcard for Watkins Salt Company, 1960

Images from the Watkins Salt Company of Schuyler County.

Westinghouse Family Papers
This collection includes correspondence, an autograph book, legal documents and photographs from the Westinghouse Family from 1833-1913.
Enrollment of the Sloop Sophia of Cold Spring Harbor

Materials related to the US Customs Port of Delivery at Cold Spring Harbor, primarily created by the Surveyor Jacob C. Hewlett.

William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript 1886

The William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript is an inventor's hand-written account in 1886 of his discovery of a printing method that produced multi-color printing with one impression. The collection includes color prints generated by the process.

William Wallace Farley Papers
Papers of an Albany businessman and politician.
A View at Lakeland postcard

The Witherill Postcard Collection contains mailed and unmailed postcards of businesses, structures, and local scenes of Cazenovia, NY and its vicinity.

Endicott Johnson Workers Public Market

Photographs of workers and working conditions in Broome County.

Working on the Erie Canal
The “Working on the Erie Canal” collection contains photographs and documents relating to the canal and its workers.
World's Fair Items Dr. Best House & Medical Exhibit
This collection contains items relating to the World’s Fair.