Collections
Acorn Stove trade cards printed between 1850–1900. The cards were created to advertise Acorn Stoves manufactured by Rathbone and Sard of Albany, NY. The cards feature illustrations of men, women, and children, including some representing stereotypes of African American children.
Materials about the Cayuga and Seneca Canal from the 1840s and 1850s.
A collection of family correspondence between 1850 and 1920. Mary Gale Clarke labeled and categorized much of family correspondence but the author's name and date.
This collection consists of 66 maps of Newburgh and the surrounding area created between 1852 and 1858.
Photographs of the Erie Canal in and around Schenectady, New York. Includes images of the construction of the canal and architectural features of the canal, such as aqueducts, bridges and locks.
This collection contains an index of Family Bibles.
A collection of the mid-19th century anti-slavery newspaper, the Frederick Douglass' Paper, a successor to Douglass’ first abolitionist paper, The North Star.
Photographs and descriptions of buildings in Glen Cove, Long Island.
Papers Belonging to local resident, Helen Rogers
This collection contains the papers of Henry Darwin Didama, who became a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1872 and Dean of the College of Medicine beginning in 1888.
Legal manuscripts of early Huntington, NY.
The Jackson Health Resort was a renowned health treatment facility in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection contains photographs and documents relating to the facility and its treatments.
Three 19th century diaries of James E. Horton, resident of Newburgh, NY.
This collection contains materials from the papers of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, 1800-1933.
A collection containing records from the family of Edmund L. Judson (1830-1890), mayor of Albany from 1874-1876.
Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck's diaries (1838-1841), and portraits of the Hasbrouck and Lawrence families.
This collection contains photographs of when the Little Falls Public Library was a residence and competitions for the Little Falls Camera Club, and other materials relating to Little Falls.
Manuscripts recording maritime labor, business, and industry.
Issues of the women's dress reform newspaper, The Sibyl, created by Lydia Sayer.
Historical material from the New York Central College in McGrawville, the first college in the United States founded on the principle that all qualified students were welcome, regardless of sex or race.
A collection of the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, published by noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the mid-19th century.
This collection includes articles, speech transcripts, reports, and other documents relating to the anti-slavery movement in Oneida County.
A collection of the Radical Abolitionist newspaper published by the Central Abolition Committee during the mid-19th century.
Letters received or collected by Samuel Jones from his family, friends, and associates, and Samuel Jones’ diary which he kept from 1821 to 1855.