Collections

Deeds documenting land transactions from the early history of Huntington.

Historical maps showing land purchases and boundaries in the Town of Huntington.

Legal manuscripts of early Huntington, NY.

Historical manuscripts relating to Huntington’s involvement in the Revolutionary and Civil War.

This collection contains correspondence between James Duane and his associates. James Duane (1733-1797) was a prominent lawyer, real estate investor, and politician in New York.

Photographs of Lynbrook, 1975 to 1991

A collection of photographs, pamphlets, letters, and other materials highlighting 20th century citizen political activism, grassroots conservation, daily life, and outdoor recreation in the Adirondacks in New York State.

A portrait collection of New York judges and court staff spanning over a century.

Utica resident Kathleen Oser was involved in many civil rights and women’s rights movements, especially the National Organization for Women (NOW.) The collection contains materials relating to Osner’s involvement in NOW.

Documents relating to the Amherst League of Women Voters in the mid to late 20th century.

Newsletters, newspaper articles, publications, meeting minutes and scrapbooks chronicling the history of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization from the early 20th century to present day.

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

This collection of letters, diaries, and ephemera documents Lucy Carlile Watson, a prominent suffragette and philanthropist from Utica, NY.

A collection of correspondence and documents relating to Buffalo, New York native, and 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore.

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.

Grant W. Johnson of Ticonderoga served as Essex County's lone State Assemblyman from 1953 until his death in 1965.

This collection provides a record of the Glebe's activities from the 1790s through the early 1900s.

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

Petitions signed by the residents of Oneida County calling for an end to slavery in the mid-19th century.

This collection contains publications by the Oswego Historical Society from 1899 to 1976.

This collection contains materials created and maintained by the Overseers of the Poor of Schenectady, Glenville, and Rotterdam. These materials capture important information about the treatment and condition of poor people in Schenectady County in the 19th century.

The Proceedings provide a record of land disposed or acquired by the State of New York, including lands for New York’s canal system.

Beginning in 1777, this collection follows Roelof Josiah Eltinge through his legal troubles of being an accused loyalist in New Paltz, NY.