This collection contains material regarding the Fort Orange Garden Club such as minutes and reports from meetings, genealogies, general histories, personal histories, membership lists, projects, flower shows, public works, newspaper articles, awards, magazines, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, photographs, and slides.

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.

This collection contains various media related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Media includes newspapers, clippings, magazines, books and a print of the late president.

Lowell Thomas was a renowned broadcaster, writer, and world traveler who made a significant impact on journalism. The Lowell Thomas Papers: Periodicals Collection consists of various periodicals that Lowell Thomas collected during his lifetime.

Includes various issues of Journal des Demoiselles, Paris (1872-3), The Delineator (1892-5), hand-painted needlepoint patterns from Berlin and Paris, etc.

Robert Russell Fayles (1890-1918) was born in Albany, New York, and died in Watervliet, New York, in 1918, of typhoid fever.

A collection of materials from Albany resident William Gorham Rice, mostly related to his interest in and publications on the subject of the Carillon Bell.