Collections
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.
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.
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.
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.
Selected interviews from the Historical Society of Rockland County's radio show, Crossroads of Rockland History.
Scrapbooks assembled by Don Schultz depicting boyhood during WWII (World War, 1939-1945)
The Gridiron is the annual yearbook of St. Lawrence University, founded in 1856 in the town of Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York.
Oral history interviews that document the immigrant experiences of Hudson Valley residents and their families.
Issues of "Manhasset Press", a local newspaper for Manhasset, NY.
This collection contains paintings by New Woodstock artist Mary Padgett, many of which are still lifes or plein air landscapes.
Images and historical documents related to the history of the Palisades region and the Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey.