Collections

Barns of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains: An Introduction

This collection details barns and other rural structures of years past in several counties in NY.

Bee Keeper Journal

Eleven issues of The Bee Keepers Journal from 1869-1870.

Brockport Village Glass Plate Negatives

A collection of early 20th century photographs depicting the Brockport region.

Logo for Craft Beverage Memory Project

The Cayuga and Seneca Lakes Agriculture and Craft Beverage Memory Project is a two-year oral history project. The interviews document and preserve the personal stories of wine, cider, beer and other beverage producers between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes. The project was created by The Edith B.

Men Stack Racks of Drying Tobacco Leaves

Photographs of tobacco farmers living in Cayuga County.

Southold Historical Society and Museum

Historic photograph collection, Long Island’s East End

Chester Historical Society Collection

Historical documents, images, and artifacts relating to the Chester, New York community.

Christopher Collection

The Christopher Collection includes images representing a historical snapshot of the people and places around the towns of Van Buren and Lysander, and the Village of Baldwinsville, New York, collected by Anthony J. Christopher Sr., a Baldwinsville, native.

Children Out of School for the Holiday

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

Color portrait photograph of couple in dressy clothing

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

Cover of the 1910 diary

Diaries written by Henry Wilcox in Oneonta, NY.

Donnan Farm Galway NY

This collection contains photographs relating to the Donnan Farm area in Galway, New York.

Fair Advertisement from 1898

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

 

A mother and daughter in portrait

Photographs, postcards, and ephemera relating to the farm women of Dryden, New York.

 

Farmer at work

Photographs of farms and farmers working in the Town of Caroline.

index card annotation

Photographs of local farms taken and annotated by students.

Fletcher Steele Nursery Orders

This collection of nursery orders offers insight into what plant materials were being used over 6 decades from 1916 when Fletcher Steele began his landscape architecture practice to 1971 when he passed away.

Fort Plain Street Fair

This collection contains images and documents related to the Fort Plain Street Fair.

Fred R. Wolcott Photographic Collection

The Wolcott Collection contains photographs taken by Fred Wolcott, who photographed and documented daily life on the Onondaga Nation Territory in the early 1900’s.

Lewis Boys

This collection includes photographs from Gary Lyon and LeRoy Clapp and depict buildings, people and landscapes in the rural community of Pompey, New York.

Hardy Family Photographs

Photographs of a Western New York farming family and their farm in the early 20th century.

Seated man in overalls holding rake

Photographs related to the George W. Harris Family of Jefferson, New York. 

Historic Postcards from Sardinia, NY

A collection of photographic postcards depicting the rural town of Sardinia, New York in the early 20th century.

Barber Mike Salerno in his shop cutting hair (1952)

Historic photographs of West Babylon