The Political Study Club of Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York, was an outgrowth of the Equal Suffrage Section of the Ithaca Women’s Club, which had been formed in 1894. The members of the Equal Suffrage Section felt that they could do more active work if they were an independent organization. In 1899 they separated and formed the Political Study Club of Ithaca, and began advocating more intensively for the right to vote for women in New York State. Around the same time other Tompkins County suffrage organizations formed, including the Groton Suffrage Club, the Newfield Suffrage Club, and the Equal Suffrage League of Cornell University. New York State sponsored a referendum on women’s suffrage in 1915 that failed, but in Tompkins County it passed by 115 votes. Final success came in 1917 when women won the right to vote in New York, and in 1920, with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, giving women around the nation the right to vote.

The Syracuse Polish Home was founded in 1919 as a community center and cultural meeting place for Polish immigrants in Syracuse, New York. It has served first generation Polish immigrants to American citizens of Polish descent. Currently it also serves the greater Syracuse community by hosting events for a variety of cultural groups and societies.

The Plattsburgh normal school was founded in 1889 in the city of Plattsburgh and operated as a school for the training of teachers until 1948 when it became the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. The school was destroyed by fire in 1929, and reconstruction was not completed until 1932

Plattsburgh Barracks, located in the Town of Plattsburgh, New York, operated as a military instillation, under various different branches of the armed service, from 1814 to 1995.

The Plainview Library opened its doors on January 7, 1956 in the Jamaica Avenue School. In 1957, the Library relocated to rented space in the Morton Village Shopping Center. It remained in the Morton Village Shopping Center until the current building opened in 1963. In March of 1966, the library's charter was amended and its named changed to the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library to accurately reflect the one school district and two communities the Library serves.

Henry K. Landis was among the mass influx of German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania (Lancaster County) in the 1700s. Henry, along with his brother George where the founders of the Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Landis, was also the editor of the local publication “Plain Talk”, during a stint in Port Washington, N.Y. Very little is known about the time Landis spent in Port Washington, however he was an avid picture taker who photographed various parts of Port and established long-standing friendships with Port Washington residents such as Charles N. Wysong and J.S. Witmer Jr. Once he returned to his Lancaster, Pennsylvania birth place in 1914, after several years in Port Washington, the magazine ceased operation.

In the year 2000, Hofstra University alumnus Robert L. Harrison began his quest to photograph all the places of worship in Nassau County. Eighteen months and over 3000 miles later, he had completed a stunning visual record of the religious diversity in this rapidly changing area of Long Island.