Collections

Handmade baskets by indigenous peoples living in present day United
States of America and Canada.

This collection contains the New Atlas of the City of Plattsburgh from 1916.

Images and postcards depicting Rockland County buildings, businesses, and landmarks.

Oral interviews documenting the changing landscape of Rockland County.

Photographs of historic places and architecture in the community of New Hartford, New York.

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

This collection includes personal papers created or kept by individuals and families chiefly of southern Ulster County, NY. The majority of the papers date from the mid-1600s through 1830.

Selected historical documents from the New Paltz Town Records.

The yearbooks provide an annual description of athletic, cultural, social and other student organizations' activities at the New Rochelle High School. Photographs of faculty and staff, students and their activities are documented within these volumes.

A selection of oral history interviews from the New Rochelle Public Library.

One of the nation's first institutes of higher education to accept students with no consideration to race or gender was open from 1849 to 1860.

Historical material from the New York Central College in McGrawville, the first college in the United States founded on the principle that all qualified students were welcome, regardless of sex or race.

A scrapbook containing newspaper clippings about the Buffalo Central Terminal at the time it first began operations.

The New York Ordnance Works Collection consists of photographs, maps, and official documents related to the New York Ordnance Works (NYOW), which was in active production during World War II.

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

A rural directory for locating farms and agricultural property in Onondaga County and a 1938 Map of Onondaga County.

The Oral History collection from the New York State Military Museum comprises over 2,100 interviews of veterans and civilians.

Items pertaining to the women's suffrage movement in New York State, 1848-1917.

Materials relating to Thomas Flyer automobiles and the New York to Paris Race in the early 20th century.

Postcards and photographs which depict the town of Newark, New York throughout the 20th century.

This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to the Newark Public Library throughout the 20th century.

Photographs from the City of Newburgh's 1916 property assessment.

This collection includes a variety of historic documents, photographs, postcards, booklets, and flyers, from the library's Local History Collection.

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

This collection contains municipal records from Newburgh, New York dating from the late 18th century through the early 20th century.