Collections

The 1913 Watervilet Flood collection is a collection of photos shows the flooding in Watervliet, New York, along some of the main thoroughfares.

A collection of photographs portraying the remains of the Genesee Valley Canal.

This collection contains images of Lake George, New York.

A collection of photo-postcards with images of Albany and Schenectady, NY. The postcards date from 1901-1953.

A collection of photographs dating between 1870 and 1900 depicting numerous houses and great camps, major bodies of water, and portraits of Adirondack residents and tourists.

Collection of photographs showing various Adirondack scenes that includes people, towns, landscapes, camps etc. Images were taken in the 1890s.

Photos taken from airplanes around Central New York.

This collection includes paintings from Central New York artist Agnes Elliott's personal collection. Her paintings represent her love of flowers, nature and the landscapes of both Florida and central New York State.

The Green Lakes Collection is mostly comprised of photographs that belonged to Arvin Almquist, who was Superintendent of Green Lakes State Park from 1928 to 1948.

Photographs of the commercial fishing industry in Montauk.

Postcards depicting scenes on and along the Hudson River, from Manhattan to points north of Albany.

This collection contains images and documents related to the Battenkill River and surrounding area.

Oral histories of Long Island baymen.

Snow crystal images and their associated documentation taken by Wilson A. Bentley in the late 19th and early 20th century.

This collection contains items related to the history of Bethlehem, New York.

This series contains photographs that document the various stages of Mt. Morris, or “Big Tupper,” as well as Big Tupper’s predecessor, SugarLoaf Ski Center.

Drone photography covering the Village of Aurora with Wells College, the Village of Moravia, the Village of Union Springs, the City of Auburn, as well as neighborhoods and farmlands of Genoa.

Brightwaters Village throughout the years, early promotion to infrastructure.

Postcards and stereographs of many Buffalo Olmsted Parks from the late 1800s to early 1900s.

This collection contains items from Camp Russell, a Boy Scout camp located in the Southwestern Adirondacks, dating from the early 1900s through the camp's closure in 2014.

The Champlain Canal Collection contains images of the construction of Lock # 2 on the Champlain Canal near Mechanicville, New York.

This collection contains photographs, postcards, art work, and images pertaining to the Champlain Canal that runs from the Hudson River at Waterford, NY to Lake Champlain.

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

This collection contains photographs from Charles W. Lanning, who graduated from the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1898.

A collection of photographs relating to the Hamlet of Childwold, New York in the Adirondacks.