Harry Douglas Yates (1903-1996) was a banker, politician, and developed the Dutch Village apartment complex in Menands, New York. This collection contains diaries, correspondence, deeds, scrapbooks, and other related papers.

The collection contains letters and postcards from Christine Polydouris to her husband Nicolas Polydouris that spans their courtship, engagement, and first years of marriage from years 1953-1954. It also contains business cards, telephone directory forms, and other information in relation to the Albany Linen Service as well as other pamphlets and forms.