This collection includes family papers for the Bedlow, Corpron, and McRae families, who were related through marriage and adoption. The Bedlow family was originally from Massachusetts before settling in Plattsburgh, then Champlain, New York. The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, personal papers, ephemera, and photographs.

On November 21, 1868, under the guidance of Dr. Ebell, sixty-two people, mostly teachers, alumni, and students from the Albany Female Academy (known today as the Albany Academy for Girls) met in the school to form the Albany Chapter of the Dana Natural History Society. The Society was named in honor of Dr. James Dwight Dana a famous geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist from Yale College. This collection contains materials such as newspaper clippings, member written articles, histories, documents from meetings and proceedings, scrapbooks, photographs, letters, awards, and other ephemera.

Hendrickson was born in Albany, in 1866, and spent the majority of his years living and working as a professional photographer in and around the downstate city of Yonkers. This collection includes material relating to the photographer’s artistic and commercial work rather than his personal life.

The collection contains photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, trade publications, press releases, promotional material, price catalogs, receipts, and other ephemera related to the Hudson Valley Paper Company during its time of operation from 1875-2011.

Jared Holt opened his leather store in Albany, New York, in 1834. The company eventually grew to become well-known in the shoe wax industry and closed in 1992.

John Dunn Murphy worked at the Municipal Gas & Light Company, the Albany Fire Department, the New York State Civil Service Commission, and was an Albany County Court attendant until 1997. This collection contains correspondence, clippings, publications, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums.

Collection includes the following printed material about Cooperstown, NY: The Scenic Tour; A Year in Cooperstown; Hotel Bon Air; Mt. Otsego Observatory; Souvenir of Cooperstown and Otsego Lake; Subscriptions to assist in enlarging and improving Christ Church, 1864; timetable Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley RR Co, 1900; Cooperstown Coterie, 1888; and A Man Who Lived for Men: Alfred Corning Clark. Francis U. Johnston’s papers include a bankbook, account book, and checks; University of the State of New York College of Physicians and Surgeons matriculation tickets, class passes, and session passes; medical notes; Memoir of the Late Francis U. Johnston, M.D. by Richard L. Morris, M.D., 1858; and sympathy card on the death of Francis U. Johnston, M. D. from the Richmond County Medical Society, 1892. Indenture between Miles Benjamin to Elizabeth Cooker, Fourth and Water Streets, Cooperstown, NY, 1822; Obligation to Miles Benjamin from Robert Campbell and Henry Scott, Cooperstown, NY 1827; Indenture between Miles and Elizabeth Benjamin and Robert Campbell, Fourth and Water Streets, Cooperstown, NY, 1827; and Judgement between Henry Scott and Miles Benjamin, Fourth and Water Streets, Cooperstown, NY, 1829. Photographic copies of the Casley House, Johnstone House, and other homes on Mill Street, River Street, and Estli Avenues, Cooperstown, NY. Invitations to Clark family weddings, correspondence and telegrams to Henry Scott, By-laws of New-York Hospital, 1820, and photograph of the "Johnstone" Farm and the "F.U. Johnstone" and family, Otsego Lake, NY.

The collection includes photographs from the two locations of Madison Liquor and Wine (1060 Madison Avenue and 1078 Madison Avenue), documentation for construction work done in 1954 to the 1078 Madison Avenue location, receipts pertaining to the construction, Madison Liquor and Wine ephemera like business cards, matchbooks and newspaper articles.

Mary Palmer Calverley Byrne-Ivy (1870- ) was a singer, pianist and voice teacher. Mary's father was Charles Calverley, an artist who served as an assistant to Erastus Dow Palmer for a time in Albany, New York.

Parker Dunn was a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The bridge over the Hudson River was named in his memory. An American Legion Post was named for Parker Dunn.