Collections

Records, photos, advertisements, and writing about the Women's Suffrage movement in Chemung County.

Yearbooks and pamphlets from the Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Diaries of Helen Alexander, who lived in rural Cayuga County from 1838 to 1923.  

This is a collection of photographs of Elmira College dating from the founding in 1855 through the mid-Twentieth century.

Miscellaneous materials concerning Jennie Curtis Cannon (Mrs. Henry White Cannon), including a scrapbook and other material related to her activities in the women’s suffrage movement.

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

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.

A hidden, limited collection within the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs records that demonstrate the complexity of the suffrage issue in the early 20th Century.

This collection includes a portrait of Lucy Carlisle Watson and a manuscript describing the history of Utica's women's rights movements.