Collections

Materials documenting the City of Buffalo and Niagara Frontier in 1825.

This collection of images documents Rochester’s 1964 race riots, offering a vivid and revealing glimpse into Rochester’s, and the nation’s, past.

A collection of the African Repository and Colonial Journal which was published in 1837 by the American Colonization Society.

This collection contains documents and photographs relating to the alumni of Albany Law School.

This collection contains photographs of the outside and inside of buildings on the Albany Law School campus.

This collection contains photographs and documents related to the students of Albany Law School.

Albion W. Tourgee (1838 - 1905) was a Civil War veteran, politician, and lawyer. He played a pivotal role in the Plessy v. Ferguson case and was a pioneering civil rights activist. This collection includes his correspondence, as well as legal documents, articles, and photographs.

An 1843 publication by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society relating to the abolishment of slavery.

This collection contains annual bulletins from 1896 to 1900 and other Syracuse University College of Law materials.

Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Record, published in 1836.

Historical newsletters from the Village of Asharoken community.

Historical records from Bellmore and North Bellmore, NY.

This collection of photographs reflect Ben Gilman's work, travels and meetings with important leaders worldwide.

Correspondence and historical records from Brentwood, NY.

A collection of photographs documenting President Calvin Coolidge's visit to Paul Smith's College in 1926.

Selected issues of the Christian Investigator, an anti-slavery publication, created by abolitionist William Goodell in the mid-19th century.

Research by Freeport Village historian Clinton E. Metz

This collection contains items related to the life of Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth.

This collection contains images of medieval and early modern manuscripts, manuscript leaves, and book leaves.

These photographs and letters detail Coretta Scott King’s visit to Keuka College in June 1970.

In the late 1980s, New York State considered Cortland County for a new low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) dump.  Local residents protested and ultimately, there was no dump. 

Katharine Pratt Horton Buffalo Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Inc. is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women’s service organization that honors and preserves the legacy of its members’ patriot ancestors.

The Sherwood Collection is mainly comprised of letters to and from Samuel Sherwood (1779-1862), his second wife Laura Bostwick Sherwood (1790-1863), and members of their family.

Minute and treasurer books of the Delhi Equal Suffrage Club, along with a few letters and a photograph, dating from c1914.

The Douglass' Monthly is a newspaper created by Frederick Douglass, following the success of his earlier weekly publications. The newspaper relates to the abolitionist movement as well as other social reform topics.