Collections

Stamp used in logbooks for record keeping.

Log Book and Manuscripts Collection

Whaling Museum and Education Center

Manuscripts recording maritime labor, business, and industry.

Long Beach Bridge Construction Photographs

Hofstra University - Hofstra University Library

Black and white photographs of the construction of the new Long Beach Bridge.

Lumber Camp Mission Slide Collection

Adirondack Experience

Presbyterian missionaries visited many Adirondack lumber camps in the early 20th century. This collection of glass lantern slides depicts their visits at the camps, as well as the loggers and logging industry.

Madden Collection

Canal Society of New York State

Historic glass negatives, prints, and postcards depicting the Erie Canal and other waterways in New York and Canada from the collection of Emily and J. Hayward Madden of Livonia, NY

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

Nancy Fitzroy Papers

miSci - Museum of Innovation and Science

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

Scrapbook of Ablett Mill

Dunham Public Library

A scrapbook of Ablett Mill, with interior and exterior photographs of the wool mill in Whitesboro.

Sterling Mines Photograph Collection

Tuxedo Park Library

Photographs of the mines built by the Sterling Mines Company during the 1920s.

Urban Renewal in Albany, New York

Albany Public Library

This collection contains photographs showing the demolition and construction of buildings in Albany's Clinton Square neighborhood during the late twentieth century.

Waterbury Mill

Oriskany Village Museum

Photographs and business documents relating to the Waterbury Mill, a felt mill in Oriskany, New York in operation for over a century.

William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript 1886

RIT Libraries, Cary Graphic Arts Collection

The William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript is an inventor's hand-written account in 1886 of his discovery of a printing method that produced multi-color printing with one impression. The collection includes color prints generated by the process.

Working on the Erie Canal

Erie Canal Museum

The “Working on the Erie Canal” collection contains photographs and documents relating to the canal and its workers.