Collections

Autographs
Corning Community College owns an autograph collection of over 100 noted statesmen, presidents, Revolutionary War heroes and authors including Henry Clay, Jules Verne, Theodore Roosevelt to name a few.
Clarke Family Business Papers
A collection of business, land and family papers of eight generations of the George Hyde Clarke family.
Delaware County Historical Association Sherwood Collection
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.
Gar Wood Collection
Gar Wood was a successful speedboat racer and business owner. This collection relates to his racing career and his business,GarWood Industries, which specialized in building motorboats.
General Electric Historical Documents
The collection features text documents highlighting the history of General Electric and its founders.
The Great Steamboat Race Letters
The Great Steamboat Race Letters collection features contest entries that proposed innovative designs for steam powered canal boats.
Hewlett-Jones Collection
The Hewlett-Jones collection is made up of records from the Cold Spring Whaling Company and the U.S. Customhouse at Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Parkway Sweepstakes 1908

Items related to the history of the Long Island Motor Parkway.

Melville Family Papers

Six audio recordings of Ward Melville, his family, and associates.

Nancy Fitzroy standing between two seated male colleagues at the GE Research Center. There is a chalkboard with writing on it behind them.

Papers of one of the first female engineering graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949.

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Letters received or collected by Samuel Jones from his family, friends, and associates, and Samuel Jones’ diary which he kept from 1821 to 1855.

Senate House Collection

A sampling of documents from the Colonial period and Revolutionary War.

Skaneateles Library Association Collection
Archival materials relating to the history and community of Skaneateles, New York primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Sterling Iron & Railway Company Correspondence Collection

Correspondence sent to the Sterling Iron & Rail Co. during the years 1865 and 1874.

Westinghouse Family Papers
This collection includes correspondence, an autograph book, legal documents and photographs from the Westinghouse Family from 1833-1913.
William Wallace Farley Papers
Papers of an Albany businessman and politician.