Collections

GCS Class Day Exercises

Material documenting Class Day, a Germantown Central School tradition from the early 1930s until at least the middle 1950s.

GE Research Lab Photographs

miSci - Museum of Innovation and Science

This collection contains images documenting the inventors and inventions of the GE Research Laboratory from 1900 - 1990.

Genesee Valley Town and Country Collection

Houghton University - Willard J. Houghton Library

A collection of photographs of the people, towns, and countryside of the southern Genesee Valley region during the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries.

Geneva Public Library Digital Collection

Geneva Public Library

Photographs relating to the history and development of Geneva, New York in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Drawing from the front page of the 1955 Sunquam Elementary School Dedication Program, 1955

Half Hollow Hills Scrapbooks, Booklets, and Programs

Half Hollow Hills Community Library

Documents that celebrate the history of Half Hollow Hills.

A choice painting collection that dates to the early 19th century. It includes works by such notables as Henry Walton, whose lithographs depict mid-19th century life, and Alison Mason Kingsbury Bishop, an exemplar of a mid-twentieth century modernist style.

Historic Rockville Centre Telephone Directories

Rockville Centre Public Library

The collection contains vintage Rockville Centre phone books.

History of Crandall Public Library

Crandall Public Library

This collection contains images illustrating the rich history of Crandall Public Library (founded in 1892).

Hudson Valley Technical Institute, 1953 -1958

Hudson Valley Community College

This collection reflects the diversity of the student body as well as the broadening scope of the curriculum as the Institute responded to the wants and needs of employers and students in the region.

Ithaca Tax Assessment Photographs

Historic Ithaca

This collection includes photographs of buildings in the city of Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York, taken in 1954 by Roy Wenzlick and Company.

John S. Apperson Jr. and Paul Schaefer Collections

Union College

A collection of photographs, pamphlets, letters, and other materials highlighting 20th century citizen political activism, grassroots conservation, daily life, and outdoor recreation in the Adirondacks in New York State.

Library History

Guilderland Public Library

This collection documents the library’s early years (1957-1969), beginning through the initiative of the Westbrook Women’s Club.

Livingston County Audio and Video Collection

Livingston County Historian (New York)

A collection of oral interviews, recordings of events, and film clips in Livingston County, mainly created by the Livingston County Historian's Office.

Luca D'Auria Collection

SUNY Upstate Medical University - Health Sciences Library

The collection includes both military photos from the 52nd General Hospital and personal family photos of Luca, his wife Lilian, and their relatives.

Manhasset Public Library Oral History Collection (1953-1988)

Manhasset Public Library

Oral histories of Manhasset residents

New York State Assemblyman Grant W. Johnson and the Adirondack Northway

Ticonderoga Historical Society

Grant W. Johnson of Ticonderoga served as Essex County's lone State Assemblyman from 1953 until his death in 1965.

NY Ontario & Western Railway Photographs

Hamilton Public Library

This collection contains photographs of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway near Hamilton, NY.

Oceanside Community

Oceanside Library

20th century images relating to the people and places in the Oceanside community.

Oceanside Legal Documents

Oceanside Library

Legal documents pertaining to local businesses in Oceanside from the early 1900s through the 1970s.

Syracuse Nationals Game at the War Memorial

Onondaga County Local Sports Collection

Onondaga Historical Association

This collection covers various sports competitions and activities in Onondaga County from the 1950s.

Photographs of Bob Wyer

Delaware County Historical Association

Bob Wyer’s photographs cover the late 30s to the late 70s, showing life in and around Delhi, NY. They cover a wide range of activities, including schools, businesses, and community activities.

Photographs of Mary Flagler Cary

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Images of landscaping, tree plantings, employees and buildings around Mary Flagler Cary's Millbrook estate as well as her family's estate, Edgewood.

Polster Photographs of Lockport, NY

Nioga Library System - Lockport Public Library

Mid-20th century photographs of Lockport, New York by Edwin Polster.

Rochester Municipal Archives Modern Collection

Rochester Public Library

This collection includes images relating to Rochester from the years 1920 to around 1960 selected from over 50,000 prints, safety negatives, nitrate negatives, and lantern slides.

Schuelke Collection

Liverpool Public Library

Ted Schuelke was a Liverpool, New York resident and his photograph collection is comprised of pictures taken in the immediate Liverpool area and in the Adirondacks.