Collections
A collection of photographs depicting the Genesee Valley Hunt at the turn-of-the-century.
Store ledgers, account books, and other business records from Germantown, NY.
Newspaper clippings and other material about the glove industry of Spencer, NY.
Presented here are selected images of Red Hook (N.Y) and the Hudson Valley taken by Harriet Martin Dey.
The collection contains images from the 19th and 20th Centuries showing historic views of Forest Lawn. These images are digitized from original glass plate negatives, photographic prints, lithographic drawings, stereoscopic views and commercial postcards.
Photographs and ephemera relating to Lakewood, New York in the early 20th century.
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.
A sampling of printed articles, photographs and correspondence from the James Milne archive at SUNY Oneonta.
The Jenks family papers include letters written to Willard S. Jenks and his wife, Rhoda, from their daughter, Jessie Elvira Jenks. Jessie lived from 1873-1964.
A portfolio of gelatin silver prints taken in Montauk in 1900.
This collection contains materials from the papers of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, 1800-1933.
Paintings, sketches, and letters written by members of the Wiles Family including Lemuel Wiles, Rachel Ramsey Wiles, and Irving Wiles.
This collection of letters, diaries, and ephemera documents Lucy Carlile Watson, a prominent suffragette and philanthropist from Utica, NY.
Photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to the early campuses of the Syracuse University College of Medicine in Syracuse, New York in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Scrapbook listing the name of militia enrollees from Tuxedo Park.
Historical artifacts including clothing, tools, and medical equipment.
Handmade baskets by indigenous peoples living in present day United
States of America and Canada.
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.
Historical materials from the town of Brutus in Cayuga County.
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.
A ledger containing records from soldiers who served in Ward Post 191 during the Civil War.
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.
This collection consists of images relating to Rochester selected from the Archives’ full collection of 10,000 glass plate negatives dated 1865-1920.
This collection consists of images of ephemera taken from the vertical file collection ("pamphlet file") of the Rochester Public Library's Local History & Genealogy Division.