Collections

Sepia photo

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). 

Pierson War Journal
Digital version of a journal kept by Angelo Solimino during his service in World War II.
Roberta Walsh Family Collection
Photographs, documents, and other materials relating to a prominent Mohawk Valley family during the the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Siciliano Restaurant World War II Veterans Collection
This collection contains photographs of World War II veterans who were from the Mechanicville area.
Taylor Civil War Letters
A collection of personal correspondence written during the Civil War by Union Soldier Edward H. C. Taylor.
Ten Eyck Fonda Collection
The Ten Eyck Fonda Collection consists of twenty-six letters written by Fonda while serving as a telegrapher for the United States Military Telegraph Service during the Civil War, and one political campaign card.
Thomas R. Bayles Collection
Watercolor paintings, photographs, and engravings from the collection of Thomas R. Bayles.
Virgil Crisafulli Collection
Historical materials relating to Virgil Crisafulli, a Utica College Professor, U.S. Navy veteran, and local politician.
War Diaries

This collection contains images of diaries belonging to American men who served in various wars, including the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.

William Henderson Baird Collection
Papers relating to Civil War Union Officer William Henderson Baird and his family at the time of the Civil War.
Pilot Clifford Windsor Sr., World War I, 1910s

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

Robert L. Ross form

Fifty-five forms filled out by hand noting the name, birth, family, address, school history, employment, enlistment date, training location, division, rank, citations, and death information for soldiers in World War 2 from Hornell.