Collections

Charles Rand Penney Trail

Niagara County Historical Society, Buffalo History Museum, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation, Buffalo Museum of Science, Niagara University - Castellani Art Museum, SUNY Buffalo State - Butler Library

Charles Rand Penney was a prominent collector. The Charles Rand Penney Trail unites his collections of Pan-American Exposition souvenirs, Papua New Guinea artifacts, Niagara County historical items, Larkin Company ephemera, and Niagara Falls artwork.

Clinton E. Metz Archives

Freeport Memorial Library

Research by Freeport Village historian Clinton E. Metz

Diaries of Helen Alexander

Cayuga Museum of History and Art

Diaries of Helen Alexander, who lived in rural Cayuga County from 1838 to 1923.

Diaries of Henry Wilcox

Swart-Wilcox House Museum

Diaries written by Henry Wilcox in Oneonta, NY.

Florence Service Collection

Watervliet Public Library

This collection contains both the history that Florence P. Service wrote in 1902 and a portrait that was taken of her by the Obenaus Studios in Albany, New York.

History of Seneca County Collection

Waterloo Library & Historical Society

Materials about the history of Seneca County.

Huntington Deeds

Huntington Town Clerk's Archives

Deeds documenting land transactions from the early history of Huntington.

Huntington Documents

Huntington Public Library

Historical documents related to the Town of Huntington and its various families.

The first page of the first circuit book that reads: Church Records of Hempstead Circuit

Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant Church Records of Hempstead, Jamaica, Rockaway and Rockville Centre (1826-1896)

Historical Society of East Rockaway and Lynbrook

Four books listing marriages, baptisms, deaths, membership and financial records.

Naples Library Manuscripts and Documents

Naples Library

The handwritten autobiography of John C. Morgan, a Presbyterian Minister and Missionary in the Naples, New York region during the mid 19th century.

Transcript of Interview With Mary Louise Stilwell, 2010

Personal Stories of the Backbone Ridge

Backbone Ridge History Group

Oral histories and diaries from the Backbone Ridge of the Finger Lakes National Forest.

Quarantine Memories

Bethlehem Public Library

Personal memories from residents of the Town of Bethlehem from the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020.

Reminiscent History of North Collins

Western New York Genealogical Society

A handwritten history of the agricultural town of North Collins, New York.

Schenectady County Community College History

SUNY Schenectady County Community College

This collection contains material on the history and development of Schenectady County Community College.

Victor Reinstein

Anna M Reinstein Memorial Library - Cheektowaga

Photographs, documents and pamphlets related to the life of Victor Reinstein, a pillar of the Cheektowaga NY Community

Writings of William H. Ross

Brentwood Public Library

Medical Writings of W.H. Ross