The Albany Institute of History & Art Library is a non-circulating research library with collections related to the art, history, and culture of the upper Hudson Valley of New York. Collections include manuscript materials, photographs, maps, rare books, and other collections dating from the seventeenth century to the present.
Liesel Hiemenz was born around 1913 in Germany. She had some memories of living through World War I, and many from World War II, and much of the collection consists of her stories.