Collections

Joan Coles-Howard, daughter of pioneering newspaper editor Howard Coles, is an author, marketing expert, and was the owner of iconic Rochester retailers Uhuru and All Day Sunday.

Bobby Johnson was the unofficial poet laureate of the Third Ward, and was a well-known figure in the community alongside his wife, Leslie Locketz.

Photos and documents related to Nyack history, from the collection of Leonard Cooke, Nyack resident and activist.

A collection of the noted abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, dating from the mid-19th century and Civil War era.

Photographs of migrant workers from the 1940s and 1980s, some of which were taken by other workers for a photography exhibit.

Selected issues of the newspaper, National Anti-Slavery Standard, which promoted equality and emancipation during the mid-19th century.

An issue of the National Freedman, an anti-slavery publication, from 1865.

The abolitionist newspaper, New National Era, was published by Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. between 1870 and 1874.

One of the nation's first institutes of higher education to accept students with no consideration to race or gender was open from 1849 to 1860.

Historical material from the New York Central College in McGrawville, the first college in the United States founded on the principle that all qualified students were welcome, regardless of sex or race.

A collection of the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, published by noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the mid-19th century.

Oral history interviews with African-American residents of Nyack, NY.

A collection of the Radical Abolitionist newspaper published by the Central Abolition Committee during the mid-19th century.

Photographs, postcards, and ephemera relating to the Bellamy Family and their friends in Norwich, NY.

Sharon Turner is a professional photographer working in Rochester, N. Y.'s Third Ward who has extensively documented the Clarissa Street Reunion gatherings over time.

In the summer of 2018, Daemen College gratefully accepted a large collection of photo collages from Kiddy Skateland, a roller rink owned and operated on Buffalo’s East Side.

A collection of photographs from the groundbreaking and early years of the Southside Community Center, some taken by photographers from the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program that supported the creation of the Center.

This collection covers the daily news stories in Onondaga County and the Onondaga Nation from 1965 to 1974, with an emphasis on activism and social justice history.

Newsletters produced by the United States Colored Troops Institute for Local History and Family Research, or USCTI, at Hartwick College.

This collection contains photographs relating to the Urban League of Onondaga County, Inc. activities.

Oral histories documenting African-American, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented communities in Cayuga County.