Collections

Charles Henry Miller Digital Collection

A digital collection of etchings titled “New York and Long Island Landscapes” by artist Charles Henry Miller (1842-1922).

Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna Pennybacker on CWC Porch

The Chautauqua Women’s Club, founded in 1889, has enjoyed a long, proud and vital history as an integral part of the Chautauqua experience.

Cherry Hill Receipt Books

A collection of manuscript cookbooks kept by several generations of Cherry Hill women (and a few men) spanning the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Chester Historical Society Collection

Historical documents, images, and artifacts relating to the Chester, New York community.

Family Photo 1

This series includes a great number of photographs of various citizens from approximately 1860 to 2010 including candid pictures of individuals, group shots at various events.

Clarkson University COVID-19 Interviews

Students in Professor Laura Ettinger's History of Public Health in America course conducted audio interviews with relatives and friends about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their lives so that people in the future can learn about what it was like to live in 2020 and 2021.

black and white image of a horse and carriage outside of bakery

Photographs and postcards relating to the history of Claverack, N.Y.

"Freeport As It Was" by Clinton E. Metz

Research by Freeport Village historian Clinton E. Metz

Coe Family Photographs

Historic photographs of the Coe family.

Culinary Institute of America Menu Collection

A sampling of historical menus drawn from the CIA's world-renowned menu collection.

Excelsior Daily Journal 1880

Handwritten diary belonging to Harriet Maria Elmendorf “Hattie” Gould (1844-1920). The diaries date from 1879-1884.

Diary Cover

The diaries of Jonathan Pearson, a notable Union College graduate who served as a professor, librarian, and treasurer at the college after graduating top of his class in 1835. It includes reflections on his time as both a student and faculty member, along with accounts of his travels.

St. Alphonsus Church Fire

This series includes photographs showing both natural and man-made disasters that occured in Tupper Lake from1899 to approximately 2010. This includes floods, fires, murder, car accidents, low water, and wind storms.

Don Schultz (1933-2013)

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

Perry B. Duryea Jr. unloading lobsters from a seaplane, date unknown.

Photographs from three generations of Duryea and Kirk families of Montauk.
 

Edmonds Family Album

This collection contains numerous photographic portraits of various members of the Edmonds family.

Lucy Agnes Hart Keyes (1900-1994) being interviewed by Fai Walker for the Eel Catching in Setauket Oral History Project, May 9, 1987

Oral histories of Native and African American community elders from the 1980s

Elie Shneour Collection

Black and white photographs of Bard College students, activities, and events taken by Elie Shneour '47.

Group of firemen in uniform posing with fire truck out front of firehall at 21 High St.

The photographs in this series document the various emergency services in Tupper Lake from approximately 1921 to 2010.

Erma DeWitt Photographs

Erma Dewitt’s historic photos, which act as a snapshot into the people, places, and events of Ulster County in the 40’s and 50’s.

Families of Upstate New York

This collection contains photographs and contextual information related to families in the upper Hudson Valley and southern Adirondack regions.

Family Bible Records  Schoharie County NY

This collection contains an index of Family Bibles.

Front page of January 21, 1973 edition of the Fifth Freedom

A collection featuring the Fifth Freedom, Buffalo and Western New York's first and largest gay-interest and gay-rights publication

Floyd Memorial Library Podcast Logo

Audio recordings relating to people living on the North Fork of Long Island.