Collections

Abuelas Grandmothers Project

La Casita's "Abuelas (Grandmothers)" exhibit. The new exhibit features shared narratives and family stories about abuelas, along with works by Latinx artists Juan Juarez, Juan Cruz, Bennie Guzman, Peggy Robles-Alvarado and Daisy Arroyo.

Scene in Buffalo's Little Italy

The City of Buffalo, N.Y. rapidly grew from a small village along Lake Erie to a bourgeoning industrial hub with the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. The city later became a center for the Steel Industry and other manufacturing.

Entrance to Catskill Village Cemetery

Short-form documentary videos featuring notable people buried in the Village of Catskill Cemetery.

Logo for Craft Beverage Memory Project

The Cayuga and Seneca Lakes Agriculture and Craft Beverage Memory Project is a two-year oral history project. The interviews document and preserve the personal stories of wine, cider, beer and other beverage producers between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes. The project was created by The Edith B.

Chittenango Oral History Collection

This collection includes oral history videos conducted as a special project by Diana Cashman’s 5th-grade students at Chittenango Middle School.

Clarkson University COVID-19 Interviews

Students in Professor Laura Ettinger's History of Public Health in America course conducted audio interviews with relatives and friends about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their lives so that people in the future can learn about what it was like to live in 2020 and 2021.

Commencement

A collection of documents from graduation ceremonies at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Shakira Santos at her Interview

Interviews at La Casita Cultural Center in Syracuse, New York for WSYR's Christie Casciano in the fall of 2021. Part of a special program commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month.

anti-nuclear parade float

In the late 1980s, New York State considered Cortland County for a new low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) dump.  Local residents protested and ultimately, there was no dump. 

COVID Memory Project of Chemung County

Oral histories of Chemung County residents describing their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and related events.

Covid-19 Pandemic Photographs

Photographs of Tompkins County people and places in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Images taken by various members of the local community.

COVID-19 Pandemic Summaries and Resources

Summaries of Covid-19-related information and resources for the Tompkins County community.

Crossroads of Rockland History Radio Program

Selected interviews from the Historical Society of Rockland County's radio show, Crossroads of Rockland History.

Don Schultz (1933-2013)

Scrapbooks assembled by Don Schultz depicting boyhood during WWII (World War, 1939-1945)

Freeport Historic Photographs

Photographs newspaper clippings, and postcards of Freeport, NY.

Freeport Memorial Library Board Minutes

Library board minutes from the Freeport Memorial Library.

Freeport Music Scores, Playbills & Programs

Historic sheet music, playbills, theater programs, and advertisements from Long Island.

Freeport Oral Histories

Oral histories from Freeport, NY

Gridiron Yearbooks

The Gridiron is the annual yearbook of St. Lawrence University, founded in 1856 in the town of Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York.

New York Heritage Logo in Greyscale

Oral history interviews that document the immigrant experiences of Hudson Valley residents and their families.

LaFayette Yearbooks

This collection contains yearbooks from LaFayette High School, 1920 - 2020.

Lantern Slide Collection

Lantern Slides, on various topics, from the Freeport Memorial Library’s Long Island Room collection.

Little Falls High School Yearbooks

This collection contains yearbooks from Little Falls High School.

Manhasset Press

Issues of "Manhasset Press", a local newspaper for Manhasset, NY.