Collections

Maps selected from the 1935 Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Report.

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.

Postcards and stereographs of many Buffalo Olmsted Parks from the late 1800s to early 1900s.

The Buffalo Photograph Collection of lantern slides contains images of cityscapes, street views, events, and architecture in turn-of-the-century Buffalo.

A collection of postcards depicting Buffalo in the early 20th century.

Materials relating to the cornerstone laying of the FDR Presidential Library.

Photographs of the city of Auburn NY, featuring downtown businesses, residences, city buildings, banking institutions, and hotels. 

This collection includes the Bullis Family & Friends Album. In 1837, Charles Bullis settled in Macedon, NY with his wife Eleanor. Charles attended Geneva Medical College and became one of Macedon's first physicians. Charles and Eleanor had two children, Abraham and Amy.

A collection exemplifying of english pottery dating between 1790 and 1860.

The Ticonderoga Historical Society is a research center and four-story museum housed in the historic Hancock House.

A collection of ephemera including matchbooks, advertisements, and drawings.

This collection contains historic photographs of businesses in Albany, New York.

The photographs in this series document a variety of businesses over Tupper Lake’s history from approximately 1880 to 2005.

This collection consists primarily of letters written by William Butler to his brother Edmund during the Civil War period from 1861 to his death in 1864. William served with the 69th Regiment of the New York Militia.

Materials related to Daniel Butterfield's service in the Union Army during the Civil War and his involvement in his father's company (what would become The American Express Company).

Pictorial family records documenting the Cahill, Stayton, and Eurell families of Montauk.

Historic photographs of locations in Cairo, NY.

Historic photographs of the Calderone chain of theaters in Long Island.

Documents and letters related to the family of John Caldwell Sr.

A collection of photographs documenting President Calvin Coolidge's visit to Paul Smith's College in 1926.

This collection documents life at Camp Awosting, a summer camp for boys, originally located in Kerhonkson, NY.

Historic photographs of Camp Mills.

This collection contains items from Camp Russell, a Boy Scout camp located in the Southwestern Adirondacks, dating from the early 1900s through the camp's closure in 2014.

This collection contains items from the Camp Russell Order of the Arrow collection held by the Camp Russell Museum in Woodgate, NY, dating from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Photographs taken at Camp Syracuse, a World War I training and recruitment center.