Collections

Don Schultz (1933-2013)

Scrapbooks assembled by Don Schultz depicting boyhood during WWII (World War, 1939-1945)

Leo Bock’s wife, Lillian Bock and their two children, Walter and Marie in a field of daisies in Lynbrook, NY. Circa 1912.

Images of Lynbrook captured by Leo H. Bock, a long time Lynbrook resident.

Military Memories & Veterans' Voices Oral History Collection

Military Memories & Veterans' Voices was a program held at the Library on December 3rd, 2017. The collection consists of five oral histories and photographs.

Jean (Jacob) Hasbrouck House, New Paltz, NY

This collection includes personal papers created or kept by individuals and families chiefly of southern Ulster County, NY. The majority of the papers date from the mid-1600s through 1830.

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.

Senate House Collection

A sampling of documents from the Colonial period and Revolutionary War.

Soldier seated with rifle

The Western New York and the Civil War collection represents a cooperative initiative between the State University of New York  at Buffalo and numerous historical societies from the Western New York counties of Erie and Niagara to share local history collections with the public through digitizati

Pilot Clifford Windsor Sr., World War I, 1910s

Photographs documenting Montauk from the 1910s to the 1960s.