The Gene Horton Collections contains over 300 newspaper clippings, articles, booklets, letters, and photographs detailing the history of Blue Point in the early Twentieth Century. These materials were used for compiling information for his various publications on local history.

Senator Willian H. Reynolds acquired the 1084 acres of marsh and meadows from Town of Hempstead on April 2, 1907, which was voted upon by the people. The barren marsh would be transformed into the land that Long Beach is today. The City of Long Beach became official in 1922. The photographs in this collection depicts the very beginnings of Long Beach and tells the story of the many projects like the dredging of Reynolds Channel, the building of our amazing boardwalk and the grand hotels that brought the rich & famous to our shores for the cool breezes and night life and of days gone by.

This collection contains scrapbooks from Fletcher Steele's travels and client work, featuring photographs spanning from 1882 to 1968.

Between 2020-23, students in Professor Laura Ettinger's courses conducted audio interviews with relatives, friends, and fellow students about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their interviewees and/or their interviewees' families and communities. The majority of the interviews were conducted in September 2020 and in late January/early February 2023 by students in her History of Public Health in America courses. Two were conducted in late January/early February 2021 by students in her History of the American Family course, and two were conducted in December 2022 by first-year students in her Clarkson Seminar course. The collection also contains an interview that Professor Ettinger conducted with her mother in May 2020. With the permission of the interviewees, Clarkson University students, along with Professor Ettinger, shared their interviews with this project so that people in the future can learn about what it was like to live during the pandemic.

John Drennan – Drennan (1906 – 1986) was a news reporter and commercial photographer. He worked at Roosevelt Field from 1927 – 1951, except during World War Two. He started out as an aviation photographer, based at Roosevelt, who supplied photos of the many notable aviators and happenings on the field to the New York newspapers and wire services. Thus he photographed many famous figures from the early years of American aviation history. He also specialized in photos of construction and accidents in Nassau County.