Collections

Photographs relating to the Love Canal environmental tragedy in the late 20th century.

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

Audiovisual recordings from Lynbrook, NY

The Maurice Leyden Collection consists of diaries, photographs, correspondence, financial records, essays and military records of Maurice Leyden. The collection also includes twenty-two diaries, dating from 1860-1886 and written Sarah Woodruff Pottle, a relative of Mr.

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

This book is an attempt to expand the concepts of Prison Theology by integrating concepts of Relational Theology.  Relational Theology can be seen as an understanding that God is embraced by the dynamic between two or more; that is, between the supreme self within the self or between the self and

Pamphlets from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, documenting salacious murders from around the country. This collection is of the covers only.

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.

Items pertaining to the women's suffrage movement in New York State, 1848-1917.

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.

Legal documents pertaining to local businesses in Oceanside from the early 1900s through the 1970s.

This collection includes articles, speech transcripts, reports, and other documents relating to the anti-slavery movement in Oneida County.

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.

A collection of reports, minutes, and scrapbooks relating to New York State chapters of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the bulk of which relate to the Unadilla, New York local union.

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.

Scrapbooks containing meeting minutes, programs, brochures, newspaper clippings and photographs concerning a late 19th and early 20th century women’s suffrage organization in Ithaca, New York. Some materials reference New York State and national suffrage matters.

An online newsletter published through Jesus the Liberator’s Prison Theology website.

PRISON THEOLOGY is an attempt to build a knowledge base that can offer solutions to “crime and punishment”.  This theology was developed among multitudes of incarcerated people in the American empire.  People most affected by punishment are assisting in the spiritual liberation of people incarcer

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.