Collections

Materials documenting the City of Buffalo and Niagara Frontier in 1825.

A collection of the African Repository and Colonial Journal which was published in 1837 by the American Colonization Society.

An 1843 publication by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society relating to the abolishment of slavery.

Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Record, published in 1836.

Roughly 500 manuscript pages of Lockwood’s various lectures, including some from the time of her campaign for president.

Selected issues of the Christian Investigator, an anti-slavery publication, created by abolitionist William Goodell in the mid-19th century.

This collection contains items related to the life of Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth.

The Douglass' Monthly is a newspaper created by Frederick Douglass, following the success of his earlier weekly publications. The newspaper relates to the abolitionist movement as well as other social reform topics.

Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Emancipator, from 1838 through 1839.

Collection of portraits, articles, memorabilia, and papers of Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, with emphasis on her time at Wells College, in the White House, and her time in Aurora, NY as a Wells College trustee and wife of Thomas Preston.

A collection of the mid-19th century anti-slavery newspaper, the Frederick Douglass' Paper, a successor to Douglass’ first abolitionist paper, The North Star.

The Frederick Lawrence Pomeroy Collection consists of family correspondence, news clippings, telegrams, and transcripts of sermons.

A sampling of early legal documents and photographs from the town of Huntington’s archives.

Utica resident Kathleen Oser was involved in many civil rights and women’s rights movements, especially the National Organization for Women (NOW.) The collection contains materials relating to Osner’s involvement in NOW.

Newsletters, newspaper articles, publications, meeting minutes and scrapbooks chronicling the history of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization from the early 20th century to present day.

A collection of the noted abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, dating from the mid-19th century and Civil War era.

Selected issues of the newspaper, National Anti-Slavery Standard, which promoted equality and emancipation during the mid-19th century.

An issue of the National Freedman, an anti-slavery publication, from 1865.

The abolitionist newspaper, New National Era, was published by Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. between 1870 and 1874.

Grant W. Johnson of Ticonderoga served as Essex County's lone State Assemblyman from 1953 until his death in 1965.

This collection provides a record of the Glebe's activities from the 1790s through the early 1900s.

A collection of the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, published by noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the mid-19th century.

Petitions signed by the residents of Oneida County calling for an end to slavery in the mid-19th century.

A collection of the Radical Abolitionist newspaper published by the Central Abolition Committee during the mid-19th century.

The Reid Gallery of Prominent Citizens at the Jervis Public Library in Rome, New York, contains "photographic portraits of prominent men who have in some way been connected with the history of Rome, or its vicinity, who have been born in Rome or have lived in Rome and who have attained promi