Grumman – For over sixty years the name Grumman had been synonymous with Naval aviation. This unique company had supplied aircraft which had consistently broken new ground both in design and performance. The Cradle of Aviation’s Grumman archives trace the development of a company that remained independent and unique for most of its history, from its founding in 1929 through the state-of-the-art jets of the late 20th century. The history of Grumman is also about the history of Long Island and the people who worked there over the course of seven decades.

A groundbreaking ceremony for a new Health Sciences Library at SUNY Upstate Medical University took place on August 14, 1992. During the early 1990s the official name of the campus was SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse. The proposed name for the new Library was declared to be the following; Library and Biomedical Information Resource Center. This name can be seen in the scanned documents of the collection such as: in the official program, invitation and speeches. However, a consensus developed in the succeeding years to change the name to simply, Health Sciences Library, and this is the name which continues to this day. The Library was originally designed to be over 70,000 square feet, but when it opened the actual space was about 35,000 square feet.

The Gridiron is the annual yearbook of St. Lawrence University, founded in 1856 in the town of Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York.

Jessie Elvira Jenks (1873 - ?). Her journals document her life from 1885-1892 between the ages of 12 and 19. Jessie jenks was born in Oneonta, New York to Willard S. and Rhoda Harris Jenks. Willard S. Jenks was a dairy farmer in Otego, New York. She was home schooled by her mother, and her home life was quiet, nonetheless she was well-read and had a well-rounded education. From 1892 - 1894 she attended the New England Conservatory in Boston. At the Conservatory she was exposed to new people and ideas, and she got to experience a metropolitan lifestyle in the city of Boston. She left the Coservatory after two years due to the financial strain on her family. She taught private classes for two years before entering the Oneonta State Normal School in 1896. Throughout her studies she remained very independent, and she frequently travelled. She was never married.

Great Neck is a region on Long Island that covers a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, which includes the villages of Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, and others, as well as an area south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border territory of Queens. On November 18, 1643, the Hempstead Plains, which included the peninsula of Great Neck, was sold to the Reverend Robert Fordham and John Carman. In the beginning, the Mattinecock Indians and the European settlers cooperated and coexisted very well together. During the late 19th century, Great Neck was the rail head of the New York and Flushing Railroad, and began the process of converting from a farm village into a commuter town. Great Neck—in particular the Village of Kings Point—provided a backdrop to F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby.

The Village of Great Neck is one of nine villages that (together with several unincorporated areas) make up Great Neck - part of the Town of North Hempstead and of Nassau County. Among Great Neck’s earliest settlements - some say the first “of any real importance and Presence” here - it is still called by many “the old village.” Like the rest of Great Neck, the Village was almost exclusively farm and orchard from its settlement in the 1660's into the 19th century. In that century, it became a small center of commerce for all of Great Neck, either selling to farmers, or servicing farmer’s needs. From 1870 to 1880, large estates were assembled. The Village experienced several real estate booms, especially after direct rail service to NYC was provided in the early parts of the century. From 1922 to 1960, the Village’s population quadrupled, and the area experienced great real estate development.