Collections

Grande Glass Plates Collection

Depicts life in Saratoga Springs, New York from a "local" perspective as captured by photographer Harry B. Settle and a few aspiring photographers.

W.S. Teator Glass Plate Negative Collection

Images taken by William Seward (Will) Teator (1860-1930), between 1890 and 1910, of Upper Red Hook (N.Y.) scenes, people, family groups, buildings, etc.

Walt Whitman Collection
Photographs of the birth place and a manuscript of Walt Whitman.
Washingtonville Historic Photograph Collection

Historic photographs of local subjects from Washingtonville and Blooming Grove’s past.

Margarita Phipps, her son Michael and his wife Molly, posing at Westbury House

Images chronicling the Phipps family and their lives at Westbury House.

Soldier seated with rifle

The Western New York and the Civil War collection represents a cooperative initiative between the State University of New York  at Buffalo and numerous historical societies from the Western New York counties of Erie and Niagara to share local history collections with

Pilot Clifford Windsor Sr., World War I, 1910s

Photographs documenting Montauk from the 1910s to the 1960s.

Winston C. Perry Jr. Collection

Photographs and ephemera either donated or lent to the Nyack Library by Winston C. Perry, Jr. This includes images of local landscapes, architecture, people, and events.