Collections

The Port Washington Library History Collection contains images from the planning and construction of the library in the mid-1960s to life and library activities that have taken place since that time.

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

Various publications promoting the evolution of the East Rockaway and Lynbrook communities.

This collection contains historic images, postcards, and documents from across Putnam County.

The bicentennial edition, published on April 8, 1985, of the founding of the Register-Star of Hudson, New York, includes information associated with the paper’s history.

This collection includes items belonging to the Reher family as well as artifacts that were recovered during an archeological dig near their building.

The Rochester Public Library Local History Division Picture File Collection contains diverse images relating to Rochester’s history.

This collection consists of images of ephemera taken from the vertical file collection ("pamphlet file") of the Rochester Public Library's Local History & Genealogy Division.

Letters received or collected by Samuel Jones from his family, friends, and associates, and Samuel Jones’ diary which he kept from 1821 to 1855.

Items from the Local History Collection of the Sayville Library.

Images of farms, businesses, and related people from Schuyler County.

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

Oral histories of Sea Cliff residents

A sampling of documents from the Colonial period and Revolutionary War.

Photographs of Kingston, New York signs and their accompanying buildings from the archives of the Friends of Historic Kingston.