Collections

In the late 1980s, New York State considered Cortland County for a new low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) dump.  Local residents protested and ultimately, there was no dump. 

This collection consists of scanned images and documents related to the courthouses of Rochester, New York.

Photographs of Tompkins County people and places in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Images taken by various members of the local community.

Photographs and news clippings collected by Montauk native Craig Tuthill.

This collection consists of documents relating to politics, business, foreign affairs, and the family’s personal affairs, which not only offer a glimpse into nineteenth century rural life in New York State, but detail machine politics on a regional, state, and national level into the early twenti

This collection contains photographs, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and sheet music relating to the history of the Crane School of Music dating between 1869 and 1993.

This collection contains photographs of the Crane School of Music providing music for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

The Crawford Collection contains photographs and glass negatives taken around Liverpool, New York by various photographers including Toby Crawford III’s father, George “Waxy” Miller and James T. Rogers.

Photographs and family bibles documenting the Crounse and MacHarg (also known as McHarg) families of Albany County, New York, 1780s-1890s.

The Crouse Hospital History collection contains black & white and colored photographs of Crouse Hospital and the staff and students who resided there from the late nineteenth through twentieth centuries.

Photographs and ephemera relating to Crystal Beach during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Cure Cottages, offering rest and fresh air, were used as a tuberculosis treatment in the late 19th and early 20th century. This collection of photographs depicts many of the Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake.

Images of aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, Curtiss aircraft & Curtiss Engineering Corp., Garden City, L.I.

Photographs and architectural drawings of the D’Youville College campus throughout its history.

Photographs related to the Danforth family of Jefferson, New York. 

A photograph collection from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, documenting hydro-electric power industry in Niagara Falls, NY

Personal friend and secretary to NYS Governor Grover Cleveland. After Cleveland was elected President of the United States, Lamont was appointed his Secretary of War and close confidant.

The collection showcases photographs from the Danny Biasone Collection of the early history of the NBA through the lens of the Syracuse Nationals or Nats, housed in the Tatyana Popović Archives and Special Collections at Le Moyne College.

Niagara Falls has a history of enticing people to dare the rapids. These daredevils have crossed the Falls over tightropes, barrels, boats, and other contraptions.

Photographs depicting Darwin Martin, his family, and his Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes.

Photographs, including aerial views, of Montauk and the buildings that define it, along with group shots of people, and their organizations and activities, including a large number of photographs documenting the heyday of Montauk sportfishing.

Photographs of passenger service railroads in the southern Finger Lakes region in the 1940s and 1950s.

Minute and treasurer books of the Delhi Equal Suffrage Club, along with a few letters and a photograph, dating from c1914.

A collection of images depicting the Rochester Dental Dispensary and School for Dental Hygienists in the early and mid-20th century.

The DeWitt Community Library History collection contains photographs and images related to the history of and events occurring within the library.