Settled in 1681, Glenwood Landing has a rich history of farming, sand mining, milling, oystering, fishing, boat building, and energy supply and production. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the community was a popular resort destination for celebrities and others, who vacationed at Karatsonyi’s Hotel, below, and similar facilities around Hempstead Harbor.

Look (1937 - 1971) was a magazine published out of Des Moines, Iowa. Issues were published twice a month. Rather than having written articles, the magazine’s main focus was on photographs taken in different parts of the country. During World War II era, Look photographers went to Glens Falls, New York, to take photographs for six articles, where they presented Glens Falls as a patriotic model of the home front during the war. Look anticipated that these articles would provide other communities with ideas to stimulate their own postwar planning. The author of the series of articles was George F. Koether, associate editor of Look. Look sent a team of photographers to Glens Falls, a city in New York State north of Albany, for several months in 1943 and 1944 in preparation for these articles. The principal photographers were Harold Rhodenbaugh and Betty Truxell. A person identified only as Sandberg also took a few photographs.

The Champlain Canal, celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2023. It runs from the Hudson River at Waterford, through Saratoga, and Washington Counties to Whitehall and Lake Champlain. The Glens Falls Feeder Canal was built in the 1820s and ran from Glens Falls to Fort Edward along a seven mile path. The purpose of the feeder canal was to feed water from Glen’s Falls, which is a high point on the Hudson River, to the highest point on the Champlain Canal. 

Glen Cove is a city in the north shore of Long Island. Glen Cove was used as a port by English migrants from New England and named "Moscheto" before 1668. On May 24, 1668 Joseph Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island purchased about 2,000 acres of land to the northwest of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock. In the 1830s, steamboats started regular service on Long Island Sound between New York City and Musketa Cove, arriving at a point still called "The Landing.” By 1850 the village of Glen Cove had become a popular summer resort community for New York City residents. The Long Island Rail Road was extended to Glen Cove in 1867, providing quicker, more frequent service to New York City. The availability of the train and the town's location on Long Island Sound made it attractive to year-round residents, and the population increased. On June 8, 1917, Glen Cove became an independent city, separating from the Town of Oyster Bay after 250 years

Surrounded by water of three sides, Glen Cove presently has over ten miles of waterfront including: three public beaches and two nature preserves. It was the waterfront that first attracted the Native Americans, the City’s founding fathers and ultimately the wealthy families who would later create the Gold Coast of Glen Cove.

These oral histories focuses on the impact of glass in Corning, NY, and around the world. The recordings in our collection explore a wide range of topics and professions, including glass artists and technicians, glass factory employees, Corning Museum of Glass institutional history,and topics unique to Corning, like the flood of 1972.

The Town of Greenwich was established during the late eighteenth century. The town is known for being part of the Underground Railroad. Greenwich also contains locations listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The photographs in this collection were taken by a man named George Whitfield Butts III. He took these photographs during several trips to the Adirondacks in 1907 and 1908.

Syracuse served as a recruitment and training location for new troops during World War I. Situated on the state fairgrounds and in nearby Lakeland, over 30,000 troops were stationed at Camp Syracuse.

George W. Fenner was a staff photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard Newspaper in the early 20th century.