Collections

18th- and 19th- Century Cooking in the Hudson Valley

Documents and images related to cooking and food preparation in the 18th and 19th centuries.

African American Presence in the Hudson Valley

Documents and photographs relating to African-American history in the early United States.

Archives Films
This collection contains digitized versions of the College's 16mm Film Collection which includes films of early College activities and a variety of other subjects such as a family vacation, product demonstrations, and maple syrup operations as well as footage of the 1910 fires at Paul Smith's Hotel
Scene in Buffalo's Little Italy

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.

Carrie Jones Family Collection
A collection of materials on Jones family of Utica, New York providing detailed glimpse of family life and the community in Central New York during the mid-twentieth-century.
Colonial Manuscripts

Archival documents relating to the early development of the town of New Paltz, NY.

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.
Dunham Family Collection
The Dunham Family History collection contains portraits, photographs, and various documents saved by the Dunham family.
Elmira College Women’s Rights and Suffrage Collection
The Elmira College women’s rights and suffrage collection is an aggregate of records from the Elmira College Archives.
Family Bible Records  Schoharie County NY
This collection contains an index of Family Bibles.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Family History in the Hudson Valley

Photographs, Correspondence, and other historical materials relating to the Roosevelt and Delano families.

Gene Horton Collection

Collection of materials by Blue Point historian Gene Horton.

Central New York Fair, Oneonta, NY 1909

Ephemera and materials relating to the Henry Wilcox and his diaries.

Historical African American Experiences at Cherry Hill

Documents and artifacts related to enslaved people and African American servants at Cherry Hill, a historic house located on South Pearl Street in Albany, New York, United States.

A History of the Black Community of Syracuse
Photographs and documents from the mid-1800s to early-1900s, relating to African American life and history in Central New York.
Joseph H. Treyz Collection of Civil War Patriotic Envelopes
The Joseph H. Treyz Collection contains 149 patriotic envelopes printed during the Civil War.
New York Heritage Logo in Greyscale

Collection relating to Julia Boyer Reinstein

Long Island Digital Collection
A digital collection of primary source materials from Special Collections that documents the history of Long Island.
Margaret Woodbury Strong Papers, 1897-1969
Margaret Woodbury Strong amassed an outstanding collection of dolls and toys which formed the basis for The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
MMSCL., Local History
Books, photographs, memoribilia, and other documents from the Mastic-Moriches-Shirley Community Library.
MMSCL., Vertical Files

Newspaper articles, documents, and pamphlets from the The Virginia La Tassa Local History Room, at the Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library.

Montauk Social Life, Customs and Community Organizations
Historic photographs, advertisements, and maps of social life on Montauk.
Blank Immigration form

These case files are all of persons of Polish descent who arrived in Niagara Falls, NY and required assistance regarding citizenship. The International Institute provided translation and other services to these people.

Quarantine Memories

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

Roberta Walsh Family Collection
Photographs, documents, and other materials relating to a prominent Mohawk Valley family during the the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries