Collections

This collection explores the contributions to the world made by James Ward Packard and his close family from the 1860’s to 1960. The Packard family was made up of inventors, business men, trail blazers, and philanthropists.

This collection contains images, postcards, maps, and documents related to Patterson NY history.

Photos from New Paltz State Teachers College in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Photographs of the Idle Hour estate as “Peace Haven.”

Images, documents, and ephemera relating to the formation and development of Pearl River, New York.

This collection shares numerous stories from those living within Cortland County as well as those working or studying at the State University of New York College at Cortland. It primarily includes audio recordings and digitized scrapbooks.

Photographs, postcards, and ephemera relating to the history of Norwich and Chenango County.

Photographs of students and campus life at Bard, taken by photographer Peter Aaron between the years 1964-1971.

Correspondence, photographs, and artifacts related to Peter Erwin (1910-1944) of the Arbor Hill neighborhood of Albany, New York, his wife Marjorie L. Walker (1915-1995), and daughter Effie Marie Erwin (1940-2021). 

Films circa 1916 and 1930.

Scrapbooks and Albums created by residents of Lynbrook, NY and the surrounding villages.

Documents, maps, images, and ephemera related to the village of Piermont, New York.

Historic postcards of buildings, streets, and landscapes throughout Kingston.