Collections

Lecture XII: Prejudice Against Color. Colonization.

This collection includes articles, speech transcripts, reports, and other documents relating to the anti-slavery movement in Oneida County.

Oneida County Anti-Slavery Petitions
Petitions signed by the residents of Oneida County calling for an end to slavery in the mid-19th century.
Oswego Historical Society
This collection contains publications by the Oswego Historical Society from 1899 to 1976.
Otsego County Woman's Christian Temperance Union Collection
A collection of reports, minutes, and scrapbooks relating to New York State chapters of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the bulk of which relate to the Unadilla, New York local union.
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This collection contains materials created and maintained by the Overseers of the Poor of Schenectady, Glenville, and Rotterdam. These materials capture important information about the treatment and condition of poor people in Schenectady County in the 19th century.

Political Study Club of Ithaca Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks containing meeting minutes, programs, brochures, newspaper clippings and photographs concerning a late 19th and early 20th century women’s suffrage organization in Ithaca, New York. Some materials reference New York State and national suffrage matters.
Prison Theology Newsletter introduction

An online newsletter published through Jesus the Liberator’s Prison Theology website.

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PRISON THEOLOGY is an attempt to build a knowledge base that can offer solutions to “crime and punishment”.  This theology was developed among multitudes of incarcerated people in the American empire.  People most affected by punishment are

Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Land Office of New York State
The Proceedings provide a record of land disposed or acquired by the State of New York, including lands for New York’s canal system.
Provincial Exile: Roelof J. Eltinge's Banishment from the Paltz

Beginning in 1777, this collection follows Roelof Josiah Eltinge through his legal troubles of being an accused loyalist in New Paltz, NY.

Radical Abolitionist
A collection of the Radical Abolitionist newspaper published by the Central Abolition Committee during the mid-19th century.
Red Hook Town Board Minutes

Board minutes from the Town of Red Hook in Dutchess County.

Reid Gallery of Prominent Citizens of Rome, New York
The Reid Gallery of Prominent Citizens at the Jervis Public Library in Rome, New York, contains "photographic portraits of prominent men who have in some way been connected with the history of Rome, or its vicinity, who have been born in Rome or have lived in Rome and who have attained prominence in
Rochester Area Historian's Holdings
A collection of card index finding aids to the Monroe County Mail Newspaper, Fairport Herald Newspaper, and the Town of Perington, New York records from the 19th century through to the mid-20th century.
Flight of the Hyperion

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

New York Heritage Logo in Greyscale

Oral histories from employees, friends, and associates of the Roosevelt and Vanderbilt families.

The Roosevelts Visit Syracuse
Photographs and documents relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt’s visits to Syracuse, New York in the early to mid-20th century.
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Letters received or collected by Samuel Jones from his family, friends, and associates, and Samuel Jones’ diary which he kept from 1821 to 1855.

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The fifteen scrapbooks are filled with mostly newspaper clippings from Penn Yan, NY newspapers from the very early 1900s through the 1950s. The books were created contemporaneously by attorney George S. Sheppard and his son Oliver.

Staatsburg Library CCC Collection

Photos documenting Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) activities in Staatsburg, NY, during the 1930s.

Stephen Pearl Andrews and his family

Materials relating to Stephen Pearl Andrews and his family.

SU College of Law Student and Alumni Publications
The Syndicus, later called Syracuse Law Magazine, was the school’s magazine published from 1955 to 2016. It includes photographs, articles, and other information about SUCOL student life and events. Some issues detail the lives and plans of SUCOL graduates.
SU College of Law: A Historical Retrospective
Photographs, documents, and other materials relating to the founding and history of Syracuse University College of Law.
Suffrage Documents of the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs
The suffrage documents are a hidden collection within the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs records.
Still from newsreel of Congress of Racial Equality protest in front of Niagara Mohawk building (May 6, 1965 6PM WSYR Broadcast)

This collection covers the daily news stories in Onondaga County and the Onondaga Nation from 1965 to 1974, with an emphasis on activism and social justice history.