Collections

Oral Histories of Tompkins County

This collection contains Oral Histories from people living and working in Tompkins County, New York.

Pa' La Calle Exhibition

An exhibit commemorating Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month featuring a series of paintings and video interviews.

Transcript of Interview With Mary Louise Stilwell, 2010

Oral histories and diaries from the Backbone Ridge of the Finger Lakes National Forest.

Phillip Trypuc Collection

Photographs of local businesses, events and people during the 1950s in and around Shirley, NY.

Portraits of Hope Collection

The exhibition Portraits of Hope: Faces of Refugee Resettlement in Central New York depicted survivors of war, genocide, and political strife who came to the U.S. and settled in the Utica region after living in refugee camps in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Water dam under construction

The Raquette River Oral History Project, conducted by TAUNY and project partners from 2014 to 2016, documents the stories of people involved in or significantly affected by the construction of the hydroelectric dams and powerhouses along the Raquette River, one of the most heavily dammed rivers i

Refugees Starting Over Collection

Over the past four years, Dr. Kathryn Stam, Faculty at SUNY Poly, has been gathering media and multimedia chronicling the lives of Refugees who have settled in Utica NY.

Remsen Yearbooks

This collection contains 79 yearbooks from Remsen Central School and covers most of the years 1938 - 2021.

Zion Hill dances with boom box

Sharon Turner is a professional photographer working in Rochester, N. Y.'s Third Ward who has extensively documented the Clarissa Street Reunion gatherings over time.

South of the Mountains Collection

Complete issues of South of the Mountains, Rockland County's local history quarterly.

St. Lawrence Central School Yearbooks Collection

This collection consists of every issue of the Centralian between 1951 and 2019.

Stony Brook University Archives Digital Collection

A digital collection of primary source materials from the University Archives that documents the history of Stony Brook University.

Summerfare! 1990 Playbill cover

This extensive collection contains playbills or programs from nearly every Musicalfare Theatre Company production dating back to 1990. Musicalfare, formerly known as Summerfare was originally started as a summer stock theatre at Daemen College.

New York Heritage Logo in Greyscale

Documents from commencement ceremonies at Schenectady County Community College.

SUNY Schenectady County Community College 50th Anniversary Collection

In honor of the SUNY Schenectady's 50th Anniversary of admitting its first freshmen class in 1969, this collection highlights the expansion of the campus from its initial building, the former Hotel Van Curler, to its current 57 acres and individuals who played prominent roles in the developm

Superstorm Sandy Collection

Photographs of the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy that made landfall in New York on October 29, 2012. 

Tappan, NY History Collection

This collection includes documents, images, and ephemera relating to the hamlet of Tappan.

Cover of Germantown Poor Book, 1855-1870

Official records generated by the Town of Germantown including highway records, relief rolls, voter registrations, and more.

Town of Henrietta Collection

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

Traci Schuster Art Collection

This collection contains 30 paintings by Traci Vedder Schuster, an artist from Fayetteville, NY.

Tupper Lake High School Yearbook

This collection contains issues of the Tupper Lake High School yearbooks, as well as commencement programs and senior annuals, published between 1917 and 1978.

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.

Voices Magazine of Fayetteville-Manlius

Fayetteville-Manlius High School students produce a literary magazine every year, full of original stories, poetry, art, and photography. This collection shows decades of teenaged creativity.

Wayne County Murals

Images of a mural depicting the history of Wayne County, New York. This mural celebrates the first Holstein cattle, a breed known for their milk production, to the region.