Collections

Edmund Blunt Topographic Map Collection

This collection consists of 66 maps of Newburgh and the surrounding area created between 1852 and 1858.

Two women seated near a bush

Glass plate negatives taken by Edna Benedict of her rural community in Delaware County, mostly taken between 1904 and 1925.

Edward M. Ruttenber Collection

This collection contains manuscripts, including handwritten copies of regimental histories and individual personal histories of Orange County soldiers who fought in the Civil War.

Edwards-Knox Central School Yearbooks Collection

This collection consists of issues of the Edwardian, the Seymour, the Hornet, and the Cougar dating between 1946 and 2010.

Edwin A. and Mary Hopper Hopkins Family Papers

The collection contains correspondence, recipes, diaries, business records and manumissions.

Lucy Agnes Hart Keyes (1900-1994) being interviewed by Fai Walker for the Eel Catching in Setauket Oral History Project, May 9, 1987

Oral histories of Native and African American community elders from the 1980s

The 1942 yearbook of Eldred Central School in Eldred, NY.

Digitized yearbooks from the Eldred Central School District, El Dorado.

Eleanor Disston Papers

The Disston Papers are comprised of a 24-page letter written by John D. Jones to his sisters describing his 1835 voyage aboard the Expeditious from New York to the Island of Nassau in the Bahamas.

Photo portraits of students and teachers

This collection contains full class photos for each teacher from Kindergarten through sixth grade at GCS for the years 1976, 1980, 1987, 1989, 1991. Other years may be added as they are found.

Elie Shneour Collection

Black and white photographs of Bard College students, activities, and events taken by Elie Shneour '47.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman in the world to graduate from medical school and become a physician. The collection includes images of Dr. Blackwell and her writings dating to the late 19th century

Elizabeth Ryan Collection

A scrapbook related to Elizabeth Ryan, an American Freestyle swimmer from Rockland County.

Ella Wheeler Glass-plate Negatives Collection - West Park in winter, 1902

These glass plate photographs of Oswego and family trips to Michigan, Connecticut, and the Thousand Islands were taken between 1900 and 1910 by photographer Ella Merrill Crippen Wheeler.

Ellenville Postcard Collection

Postcards depicting Ellenville landscapes, architecture, and daily life.

Ellis Hospital Collection

This collection is composed of photographs and publications of Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, NY.

Elma Mitchell working on East Meredith History

Photographs and postcards from the Elma Mitchell Collection, showing people and places around East Meredith. 

Elmira City Directories

Directories for Elmira, New York and surrounding areas in Chemung County, including Elmira Heights.

Elmira College Bulletin cover, 1940

Issues of the Catalogue, sometimes called The Bulletin, from Elmira College dating back to its founding in 1855. They contain trustee, faculty, and class lists, as well as mission statements, curriculum and financial information.

Elmira College Historical Collection

This is a collection of photographs of Elmira College dating from the founding in 1855 through the mid-Twentieth century.

Campus: The Elmira College Magazine, 2022

Campus and alumni magazines from Elmira College, highlighting the advancements and changes at the College. The magazines also spotlight the accomplishments of the alumni community.

Elmira College Women’s Rights and Suffrage Collection

Campus publications, photographs, student letters, student scrapbooks and official addresses that document the student, faculty and institutional role in the women’s rights movement.

Elon Howard Eaton Ornithology Collection

Elon Howard Eaton (1866-1935) was a noted ornithologist and author of Birds of New York. This collection includes papers related to his research, correspondence, and genealogical materials, as well as photographs of Eaton.

Elsie Gutchess Great Women of the USA Collection

Items from the papers of historian Elsie Gutchess, including primary and secondary materials relating to the history of women in the United States.

The Emancipator

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