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.
This collection contains photographs of the outside and inside of buildings on the Albany Law School campus.
Photographs of the city of Auburn NY, featuring downtown businesses, residences, city buildings, banking institutions, and hotels.
Documents and texts relating to the cemeteries and burial grounds located within the Town of Elbridge.
Glass plate negatives of Hyde Park scenes, people, and architecture, taken by Charles Sylvester Piersaull.
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.
Store ledgers, account books, and other business records from Germantown, NY.
The minute books from Red Hook's two societies for the detection and apprehension of horse thieves.
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.
This collection contains materials from the papers of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, 1800-1933.
Scrapbook listing the name of militia enrollees from Tuxedo Park.
Historical artifacts including clothing, tools, and medical equipment.
This collection contains photographs taken by the Northern Survey Company of Albany, NY of family houses, farms, businesses and public buildings in New York State and New England, 1878 to 1900.
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.
This online collection contains stereoscopic images (one side of the stereoview card) from The Robert Joki Collection. These images highlight important landmarks in the Spa City.
A scrapbook of Ablett Mill, with interior and exterior photographs of the wool mill in Whitesboro.
This album dates from 1889-1890 and is a collection of photographs of soldiers with the 23rd Separate Company, recruited for the Spanish-American War and serving at Camp Wetherill near Greenville, South Carolina.
This collection documents the history of higher education in New Paltz, NY.
Official records generated by the Town of Germantown including highway records, relief rolls, voter registrations, and more.
This collection contains North African Postcards of Jewish women, children, and families dating back to the early 20th Century.
Images taken by William Seward (Will) Teator (1860-1930), between 1890 and 1910, of Upper Red Hook (N.Y.) scenes, people, family groups, buildings, etc.
Two scrapbooks compiled by Anne Maycock Hopkins, wife of Dr. Horace G. Hopkins, physician at former Willard Asylum and Willard State Hospital from 1874-1894.