Collections

Acorn Stove trade cards printed between 1850–1900. The cards were created to advertise Acorn Stoves manufactured by Rathbone and Sard of Albany, NY. The cards feature illustrations of men, women, and children, including some representing stereotypes of African American children.

Store ledgers, account books, and other business records from Germantown, NY.

Images of Elmira used for the HistoryForge project.

Selected objects from miSci’s collection of 15,000 science and technology artifacts.

Correspondence and documents, 1853-1948, created and received by the Olcott Family of Albany, New York.

A scrapbook of Ablett Mill, with interior and exterior photographs of the wool mill in Whitesboro.

The William N. Weeden Color Printing Manuscript is an inventor's hand-written account in 1886 of his discovery of a printing method that produced multi-color printing with one impression. The collection includes color prints generated by the process.