Collections

This series contains photographs that document various arts programs in Tupper Lake ranging from community drama, local music groups and school bands, arts and crafts, and theater.

Journals recording testimonies from business owners who lost income due to the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir.

This collection documents life at Camp Awosting, a summer camp for boys, originally located in Kerhonkson, NY.

Gravestone transcriptions and other information about the cemeteries of Backbone Ridge, most of which were abandoned by the 20th century.

Datasets of fully transcribed United State Census records as completed by volunteers for the HistoryForge project.  

Historical documents, images, and artifacts relating to the Chester, New York community.

Photographs and ephemera from the Columbian Rope Company of Auburn.

Yearbooks and pamphlets from the Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Diaries of Helen Alexander, who lived in rural Cayuga County from 1838 to 1923.  

These glass plate photographs of Oswego and family trips to Michigan, Connecticut, and the Thousand Islands were taken between 1900 and 1910 by photographer Ella Merrill Crippen Wheeler.

The Fourth of July being celebrated in Fayetteville, New York.

Letters and photographs of the men who guarded the New York City Aqueduct during WWI.

Photographs taken by George W. Fenner during World War I, documenting the people and activities supporting the war efforts in Syracuse, New York.