Collections
![1825, a Pivotal Year on the Niagara Frontier](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VHB006.jpeg?itok=QQtCAv3s)
Materials documenting the City of Buffalo and Niagara Frontier in 1825.
![African Repository and Colonial Journal](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/AfricanRepository.jpeg?itok=EqHL93mp)
A collection of the African Repository and Colonial Journal which was published in 1837 by the American Colonization Society.
![American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Anti_Slavery_Reporter.jpeg?itok=a0uZDFn5)
An 1843 publication by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society relating to the abolishment of slavery.
![Annual Bulletins](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Inauguration_of_the_Faculty_of_the_College_of_Law_in_Crouse_College_Hall_September_23_1895_3_O_clock_in_the_Afternoon_Page_1.jpg?itok=QWwIcN3V)
This collection contains annual bulletins from 1896 to 1900 and other Syracuse University College of Law materials.
![The Anti-Slavery Record](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZJ007.png?itok=znNiJNUM)
Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Record, published in 1836.
![Belva Lockwood Manuscript Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YTJ008_0.jpg?itok=ItTR7vFz)
Roughly 500 manuscript pages of Lockwood’s various lectures, including some from the time of her campaign for president.
![Christian Investigator](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZJ008.jpeg?itok=On5UcY8N)
Selected issues of the Christian Investigator, an anti-slavery publication, created by abolitionist William Goodell in the mid-19th century.
![Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XIE001-Mechanicville-Ellsworth.jpeg?itok=3lslOkpd)
This collection contains items related to the life of Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth.
![Portrait of Katherine Pratt Horton](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/download.jpg?itok=GIw4ADN5)
Katharine Pratt Horton Buffalo Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Inc. is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women’s service organization that honors and preserves the legacy of its members’ patriot ancestors.
![Delaware County Historical Association Sherwood Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Sherwood%2520Collection_0.jpg?itok=x63Djtli)
The Sherwood Collection is mainly comprised of letters to and from Samuel Sherwood (1779-1862), his second wife Laura Bostwick Sherwood (1790-1863), and members of their family.
![Delhi Equal Suffrage Club Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/DCHA001.jpg?itok=O9dNhsOr)
Minute and treasurer books of the Delhi Equal Suffrage Club, along with a few letters and a photograph, dating from c1914.
![Douglass Monthly](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Douglass_monthly.jpg?itok=WAbywN_Z)
The Douglass' Monthly is a newspaper created by Frederick Douglass, following the success of his earlier weekly publications. The newspaper relates to the abolitionist movement as well as other social reform topics.
![Elmira College Women’s Rights and Suffrage Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/p261501co1l12_877_medium.jpg?itok=Pt5OcQbI)
The Elmira College women’s rights and suffrage collection is an aggregate of records from the Elmira College Archives.
![Elsie Gutchess Great Women of the USA Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YSW005.jpg?itok=DaZxWpun)
Items from the papers of historian Elsie Gutchess, including primary and secondary materials relating to the history of women in the United States.
![The Emancipator](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZJ009.png?itok=_m4uRljk)
Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Emancipator, from 1838 through 1839.
![Emily Howland Papers](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YSW002.jpg?itok=-w1HHdVy)
Items from the personal papers and library of abolitionist, suffragist, and peace activist Emily Howland, including her collection of political pamphlets, posters, and program documents.
![Frances Folsom Cleveland Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/p15085coll2_3667_large.jpg?itok=4eDK4b5u)
Collection of portraits, articles, memorabilia, and papers of Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, with emphasis on her time at Wells College, in the White House, and her time in Aurora, NY as a Wells College trustee and wife of Thomas Preston.
![Frederick Douglass' Paper](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Frederick_Douglass_Paper.jpeg?itok=iyOnpx1y)
A collection of the mid-19th century anti-slavery newspaper, the Frederick Douglass' Paper, a successor to Douglass’ first abolitionist paper, The North Star.
![Frederick Lawrence Pomeroy Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR062.jpeg?itok=5Ttm-9Or)
The Frederick Lawrence Pomeroy Collection consists of family correspondence, news clippings, telegrams, and transcripts of sermons.
![Howland Stone Store Museum Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YSW006_posters_334.jpg?itok=nI1v4alU)
Collection of materials from the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood, N.Y. related to woman suffrage and local history, including woman suffrage posters and publications.
![Huntington Archives](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR058.jpg?itok=erYfMOZ-)
A sampling of early legal documents and photographs from the town of Huntington’s archives.
![Jennie Curtis Cannon Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/DCHA002.jpg?itok=GqH74-kN)
Miscellaneous materials concerning Jennie Curtis Cannon (Mrs. Henry White Cannon), including a scrapbook and other material related to her activities in the women’s suffrage movement.
Utica resident Kathleen Oser was involved in many civil rights and women’s rights movements, especially the National Organization for Women (NOW.) The collection contains materials relating to Osner’s involvement in NOW.
![League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/leaguewv.jpg?itok=7Y8T4Vn7)
Newsletters, newspaper articles, publications, meeting minutes and scrapbooks chronicling the history of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization from the early 20th century to present day.
![The Liberator](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZJ010.jpeg?itok=NZiRQrM7)
A collection of the noted abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, dating from the mid-19th century and Civil War era.