Collections

Isabel Howland and Friends Having Tea

Correspondence of Isabel Howland's and ephemera from the Howland Store Stone Museum's collection.

Jane Secor Collection

Photographs, books, articles, papers, World War II items and poetry from Jane Secor’s personal collection.

Jennie Curtis Cannon Collection

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.

Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck Collection

Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck's diaries (1838-1841), and portraits of the Hasbrouck and Lawrence families.

Kathleen Oser Collection

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.

League of Women Voters of Amherst

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

League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara

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.

Newspaper clipping from 1903, source unknown.

Letters from Margaret Scott to her niece, Evelyn Cook.

Portrait of Lucy Carlisle Watson

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

Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck Dress Reform Collection

Issues of the women's dress reform newspaper, The Sibyl, created by Lydia Sayer.

Anna Trasher Letter,July 22, 1904

Letters written to Mary Hunt, mostly by her young niece working in St. Louis, Missouri.

New York State Women's Suffrage Exhibition Collection

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

Otsego County Woman's Christian Temperance Union Collection

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.

Carrie Theodore Partridge

The collection consists of a variety of documents from the Partridge family.

Political Study Club of Ithaca Scrapbooks

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.

Rose Spadaccino portrait

Records, photographs and documents of Rose Spadaccino Muccigrosso (1873-1950), an Italian immigrant and midwife serving Elmira's Italian community.

Cover of the scrapbooks

A scrapbook about the history of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Seneca Falls.  Compiled by Town Historian Roberta Halden.

Somers Wright Reis Collection

Photos of Caroline Wright Reis and the Wright Reis homestead as well as ephemera documenting Wright Reis’ daily life.

Suffrage Documents of the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs

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.

Town of Henrietta Collection

A collection documenting the history of the Town of Henrietta, New York.

Twentieth Century Club of Buffalo

Photographs and documents relating to the Twentieth Century Club, a women’s club founded in Buffalo in the late 19th century to promote education and the arts.

Frances A. Goodale, Founder and First President of the New Century Club

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

Vassar Brothers Hospital first year student nurses with instructor 1959

Photographs, mementos, yearbooks and scrapbook pages from the VBH School of Nursing.

Last Day of Classes Opening Convocation Program and Candle

Photographs of Wells College as submitted by alumni after its closure.