This collection contains portraits of several presidents of Bard College.

This collection contains photographs related to all buildings of Bard College, past and present.

This collection includes class pictures from St. Stephen's and Bard College.

This collection contains photographs, letters, and other manuscript material pertaining primarily to the relationship between John and Margaret Bard and Reverend James Starr Clark. These items illustrate the beginnings of St. Stephen's College in Annandale; and in Tivoli, Trinity Church and School, and Trinity Academy.

This collection includes yearbooks from 1887 to 2014. These yearbooks were all published by the secondary school in Baldwinsville, NY, and contain information about the school, its students, and their education and activities. The school and the yearbooks changed names several times over the years. Several yearbooks contain additional inserted materials, including newspaper clippings, photocopies, and pamphlets. These materials are also digitized and included in the collection.

Corning Community College owns an autograph collection of over 100 noted statesmen, presidents, Revolutionary War heroes and authors including Henry Clay, Jules Verne, Theodore Roosevelt to name a few.

This collection consists of historic maps from New York City to Troy, NY. The maps are split into segments, each detailing information such as land ownership, structures, businesses, schools, churches, railroads, and bodies of water in the region.

This collection consists of bound handwritten journals recording testimony from business owners who suffered loss of income as a result of the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir. Entries include the amount of money they were asking in recompense and the amount awarded.

Arthur Koweek, owner of the Town Fair toy and baby furniture shop, chaired the Hudson City Planning Commission during the urban renewal project of 1971-1973. Urban renewal transformed neighborhoods from west of Front Street, north of Warren Street and west of Second Street to the Hudson River. This collection, containing Koweek’s slides of the impacted areas, is being displayed publicly for the first time in nearly 50 years. Most of these photographs document buildings that were later demolished.

The text for the photographs was written by Ted Hilscher, Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson. Hilscher collected oral history, utilized Beers Atlas of 1873, Polk’s 1962 Directory, and an aerial photograph of the city made prior to the urban renewal. In each instance, the title being used for a photograph is the identification placed on the original slide by hand. The date being used is the date stamped into the cardboard mount for each slide. Photographers were from the Federal Urban Renewal Program and are unidentified.

Arthur B. Gregg was the Town Historian for the Town of Guilderland for many years. His personal collection of more than 100 titles on local, regional and state history previously resided at Farnsworth Middle School and was later donated to the library. Two of his most essential publications have been digitized: Old Hellebergh: historical sketches of the West Manor of Rensselaerswyck, including an account of the anti-rent wars, the Glass House and Henry R. Schoolcraft and Outline history of the Town of Guilderland, Albany County, New York.