This collection is comprised of photographs and ephemera reflecting the life of Emerald McKenzie ’52. Emerald Rose McKenzie (1928-1989) was one of the first African American woman to attend Bard College. She was also blind, having lost her sight at the age of 16. The bulk of the collection was donated to Bard College by her family after Emerald’s death in 1989. Some items were donated by Cynthia Maris Dantzic ‘54. Cynthia was McKenzie’s reader and friend at Bard from 1950-1952.

Emery George, born in Hungary in 1933 and naturalized as an American citizen in 1954, is a prolific poet, translator, and scholar of Germanic literature. His collection contains manuscripts of original and translated poetry, published works, and business correspondence.

Collection consists of typescripts of Emiliia Vitol'dovna Brusinskaya's reminiscences of Siberia in the late 19th century. There are also two newspaper clippings with her publications, 1 drawing, clipping with image of ballerina, and a brief essay (typescript) written by Konstantin Bruzinskii about his grandfather, Iakub Geishtor.

The Emily Howland Papers contains items from the personal papers and library of abolitionist, suffragist, and peace activist Emily Howland, including her collection of political pamphlets, posters, program documents, articles, conference papers, short papers, and other publications relating to topics such as women’s suffrage, anti-slavery movements, Indian rights, the Unitarian Church, and temperance.

The collection consists of Emlen D. Evers manuscript "Moscow Diary and Letters" — her diary and letters of Moscow 1937. As she explains, "The Diary and letters ... are actual with some corrections and deletions of repetitions," with addtion of some of her father's "comments from his handwritten diary and from the two manuscripts which [she] assembled from the closed file at the Library of Congress and the letters and some recollections."

Mr. Weil apparently used film packs for his 4x5 shots and made his selection for printing after developing them. He also apparently used a 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 cameras at the same time, so that he has negatives of the same scene in a couple of formats and several different exposures. Mr. Weil also made several duplicate prints; some of which may have been made for commercial purposes; some for technical reasons, as he notes in various places different exposure times and paper types.

This is a collection of materials put together by the Albany Institute of History & Art staff and volunteers.

Erastus Corning 2nd (1909-1983), was a member of the New York State Assembly, the New York State Senate, and was served as the Mayor of Albany, New York, from 1942-1983. This collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other personal and political materials.

Erastus Corning I (1794-1872) was born in Norwich, Connecticut to Bliss Corning. He moved to Troy, New York at age 13 to work with an uncle, and moved to Albany at age 19 for a job in the mercantile business with James Spencer. Corning had multiple business interests during his life, including Erastus Corning & Co., which bought and sold iron products, involvement in numerous railroad companies, served as Mayor of Albany, a member of the New York Senate, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He married Harriet Weld in 1819, and together, they had five children. This collection contains account books, business records, correspondence, financial records, and other materials.

Papers including constitution, annual meetings and minutes for Erie County Sunday (Sabbath) School Association.

Important subjects in this collection include World War I in Albania and malaria control in Greece, Albania, Costa Rica, British Honduras, and Brazil.

The Ethel Tower Collection documents student life at Wells College in Aurora, New York, at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. The collection consists primarily of letters written from Ethel while at college to her mother living in Detroit. The letters span the years 1899-1903, the years that Ethel was a student at Wells. Ethel graduated in 1903. She was a member of the basketball team and involved in the Psychology department.

This collection consists of a single letter written by Elizabeth Titus Sweet of Dutchess County, New York on March 20th and March 21st, 1864, regarding Maggie Sweet’s diagnosis of smallpox. This letter is addressed to Elizabeth Titus Sweet’s brother Stephen Titus and sister-in-law Margaretta Titus living in Meigs County, Ohio.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, research material, and photos created or collected by Everett Lee Millard who researched and wrote about John H. I. Browere and his life masks of historic figures.

Manuscript and typescript memoirs (38 p.) that touch on such topics as his family history and his education.

Record of doctors' prescriptions filled by Ewen McIntyre & Son, pharmacists, who at this period were located at 992 Sixth Avenue, New York City.

The Fairchid Family Papers are comprised of materials that were assumed to have been compiled by members of the Fairchild Family, although it's unknown as to who compiled them.

Fanzines (from "fan magazine") are generally self-published in support of some form of fandom. They originated in science-fiction fandom and comics fandom became an offshoot. They have a variety of foci: reviews; news; specific characters, creators, or publishers; fan comics.

This collection consists of material related to Seth Field and Lucy Mix Field who lived in Geneva in the 19th century.

These papers of Fordyce w. Ames and his son, Frederick L. Ames primarily consist of business records of the father who was a farmer and the son who was a printer. Included are correspondence; farm, household, and insurance account books; bills and receipts; a Typographical Union membership certificate and working card for F. L. Ames, and a surveyor's report of a parcel of land in Tromp Township, DeRuyter, Madison County, NY.

Fleet's direct predecessor was the Providence Bank, in Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 1791. Through mergers over the years, it settled as Fleet Financial Group in 1992. After becoming FleetBoston in 1999, the company was bought out by Bank of America in 2004. This collection contains minutes, annual reports, newsletters, scrapbooks, photograph albums, photographs, and other business records.

Personal and business papers compiled by Grace Louise Fletcher Chase (1888-1974) of Norwood, NY and Cambridge, MA., relating to the Fletcher, Hale, and connected families of St. Lawrence County.

This collection contains the research files of Florence Christoph. Research notes are on various Albany families such as Winne, Schuyler and the Van Rensselaers. There are no specific dates for when the research was undertaken, but the estimated dates are from the 1960s through the early 2000s. The researched information dates as far back as the late 1600s through the early 1900s.

A large collection of original comic and illustration art; a considerable number of articles of clothing; tapes and CDs; documents; photographs; ephemera.

The Fonda Family were some of the early Dutch settlers in Albany, New York. Fonda relatives were also found in Schenectady and Saratoga counties, as well as some members becoming tenants of the Rensselaerswyck Patroon. This collection includes deeds, personal correspondence, bonds, and other legal documents.

Research notes compiled by Susan Bonynge Strange and Lucretia Booth Evans in researching the Foot(e), Booth, and Colt lines of their family trees. This collection contains correspondence, genealogies, and photographs.

Includes drawings for Long Island, N.Y. residential projects.

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.

Gerald and Viacita Fowler were residents of Geneva from the late 1920s for the rest of their lives and were very involved in the Geneva community and political spheres.

The collection is primarily composed of miscellaneous materials from Frances de le Montayne's association with Wells College, including an extensive collection of Goodnight Notes from her classmates. Most the material from this collection is estimated to be from the late 1920s when Frances was a student at Wells.

The Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston Collection covers three periods of the life of the famed Wells alumna. The years of 1884 to 1885 cover Frances' attendance at Wells College as a student. The second covers her life as a newly wedded First Lady of President Grover Cleveland from 1886 until the early twentieth century. The third part of the collection cover Frances' departure from the White House to her return to Aurora, New York in 1913, when she married Thomas Preston, who taught at Princeton University before teaching at Wells College. The collection also contains portraits, articles, and photographs of the commemoration after her death in 1947.

This small collection is related to the Arthur Mitchell Collection, and consists mainly of Dance Theater of Harlem publications, performance history, and Frank Bara's drawings and other materials that he used to create the Dance Theatre of Harlem 20th Anniversary Puzzle. Including some of Bara's original drawings and mock-ups for the DTH Puzzle, a digital copy of the VHS tape made when he presented it to Arthur and members of the DTH company in 1991, a DVD on the Biographical Luciano Pavarotti Jigsaw Puzzle made by Bara, and a DVD of the work of David and Abraham Roentgen and the Marie-Antoinette automaton filmed for the Metropolitan Museum by Bara's partner Marvin Hayes, artist, innovative videographer and software designer.

Correspondence between Michael Meredith Hare, architect, philosopher and author, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Taliesin Fellowship member, William Bye Fyfe, when Hare was an architecture student at Yale in 1933, concerning Hare's inquiry into a Fellowship at Taliesin and Wright's views on architectural education. Also includes a 1940 autobiographical sketch of Hare.

This collection contains individual and group interviews which were used as source material for Frank Besag's book Anatomy of a Riot: Buffalo, 1967, a case study comprised primarily of interviews with witnesses to the events in Buffalo from June 26 through July 1, 1967. Also included are newspaper clippings about the study and a copy of the book.

The majority of this collection includes the personal papers of Frank W. Rosell and his family. Correspondence and items regarding the works of Asher B. Durand are also present. Genealogies of several families are outlined.

Frederick Joseph Lawrence (1825-1904) was a prominent decorator and coach painter who resided in Albany, New York. This collection contains business papers, personal papers, Edward Tallmadge Papers, daguerreotypes, and newspapers.

This collection contains handwritten correspondence between family members from 1700 - 1880's

History, Constitution, Members and Officer Lists. Dated Books of Members, Minutes, Readers and Hostesses. Correspondence and Memorials. Photo Album of 105th Anniversary Party.

Small collection of late 19th century records of Fuller and Wheeler, architects, located in Albany, New York.

Contains material related to the Fuller Family's genealogy, 1620-1948 including the volume “Fuller Family Book of Origins” traced by Eliza Morehouse Smith with genealogies of the Fuller, Smith, Macomber, Worthington-Dorrance, Wells-Perkins-Smith, Pomeroy, Standish, and Cooper families; research material, correspondence, clippings, a family register of the Macomber family; and a map of Taunton.

Business records, correspondence, financial records, photograph reproductions, and scrapbooks of the firm.

Harmen Harmanse was the patriarch of the Gansevoort family in Albany, New York, arriving in the area by 1657. Although not the first Ten Eyck in America, Jacob C. Ten Eyck was the first to come to Albany, moving from Manhattan after 1654. The two families intermarried several times over the years, along with other Dutch families in the area. This collection includes correspondence, financial records, estate records, and other family-related information.

This collection contains Rand’s personal papers including family correspondence, household bills and receipts, certificate of his marriage, and correspondence of Isaac McConihe.

This collection consists mainly of business papers of Francis Patrick Garvan (1875-1937), Assistant D.A. in New York for 1901-1909, later lawyer and chairman of the Chemical Trust Fund Co.

This collection includes manuscripts, letters, correspondences, compilations, circulars, and photographs relate to Edmond Charles Genet and his diverse career as diplomat, inventor, farmer, and correspondent with the leaders of American government, society, and scientific thought.

Materials from this collection refer to the buildings on the corner of Milton and Pulteney Streets and the later building on Carter Rd.

This collection includes material related to the Geneva Medical College, which was a branch of Geneva College (now Hobart College), during the time it was in Geneva.

This collection includes material related to the Geneva Optical Company, Standard Optical Company, and Shuron Optical as the companies evolved from the AL Smith & Co Spectacle Manufacturers.

This material covers the time period from 1894-1927 with photos, directory listings, and other ephemera related to the business. Other materials originated from GHS staff or researchers from 1983-2008 including correspondence and photos.

This collection covers the Geneva YMCA from its founding in 1886 until it changed their name to Geneva Family YMCA.

George Hamlin (1868-1923) was an American tenor. His daughter, Anna (1900-1988), was a soprano and voice instructor. The George and Anna Hamlin papers, dating from 1868 to 1983, document the careers of both vocalists through clippings, diaries, autograph books, programs, publicity materials, scores, photographs, and correspondence.

A collection of family papers from George Hornell and Ursula Jane (Boyd) Thacher and their three children, Margaret Euphemia, John Boyd and George Hornell. The bulk of the collection is correspondence to and from various family members between the 1830’s to the 1880’s. The collection has a limited amount of the children’s schoolwork and grades; financial papers concerning day-to-day living and educational expenses including numerous bill heads of Albany business from that period; and a limited amount of unidentified photographs. Lastly, the collection includes financial materials from the Albany Army Relief Bazaar in 1864. A list of who donated money and other items is included.

This collection consists entirely of photographs and audiovisual materials.

Two letters (fragmanted) and four postcards, written to Ester Meyers [sic] and sent from France in 1917/1918 by future illustrator and cartoonist George Mann Shellhase. One letter and three postcards are illustrated; the fourth postcard is Shellhase's promotional card.

George MB Hawley was a lawyer and historian who lived in Geneva most of his life.

A manuscript by George Miles of a draft catalog of Fatimid coins.

George Conover was a well-respected historian of the Geneva and Ontario County area. He served as a Geneva Village Trustee and President.

George William Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) was a British-American geologist and geographer. Featherstonhaugh served as the first geologist to the U.S. government and was one of the proposers of the Albany and Schenectady Railroad. This collection includes correspondence and other family-related documents.

A collection of about 106 mounted albumen prints created by George W. Rafter, a practitioner of high-powered photomicrography. In addition are a report by Rafter documenting his work and a modern reprint of an article he wrote for the Society of Microscopists. Plates 1-88 are described by a detailed inventory in folder 1; the descriptions here are abbreviated. Items 89-106 are smaller format prints, solely described from notes on the items themselves. Dated materials are from 1888.

70 titles of music scores (with some parts), totaling roughly 460 p.

This is a small collection of research work consisting of correspondence and copies of materials collected by Geraldine De Courcy for her published biography of Paganini and for her unpublished biography of Joachim. The papers also give details of the problems that followed her death, given that her will was not properly witnessed and could not be probated.

Germania Hall originated in 1890 following a Saengerfest or Singers’ Festival held at Appollo Hall as part of the Troy Centennial Year Celebration in 1889.

The Giacomo Patri Archive contains a bound manuscript of Patri's "White Collar", books from the Patri School of Art, notes on Patri, and several books on art, wordless books, and other topics. Each item is quantified, adding up to 6 books, 9 items (books and ephemera), and 9 additional items illustrated by Patri.

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) was born in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York. An American landscape painter and one of the Hudson River School artists, Gifford traveled extensively across New England and Europe for his subjects. This collection includes a scrapbook, correspondence, and a family genealogy. Seven sketchbooks and a paint box of Gifford’s were transferred to the Curatorial department.

Excerpts and summaries from the diary of Jennie Che-ju Chen.

Gladys Gray was a lifelong resident of Geneva and heavily involved with the Geneva Historical Society.

Scott Dumont Goodwin (1845-1935) was the legal representative and attorney for a number of influential Albanians and others whose affairs and estates are represented in this collection. Also included is the correspondence and diaries of Lieutenant George Wait Goodwin U.S. Air Force, who was killed in France in 1918, and Edward S. Goodwin, Albany physician, Helen Goodwin Yale, and Louise Goodwin, who were all children of Scott Dumont Goodwin. This collection includes correspondence, diaries, accounts, and legal papers.

The Gracey family were known for their involvement in the Geneva Daily Times and were heavily involved in civic affairs in Geneva.

The papers of Mr. and Mrs. William Grant and their children.

Ruth Gretchen Weeber (1913-1984) was an Albany, New York sketcher and painter of old Albany architecture. Her father Christian, developed the Weebermobile, and her sister, Marion, was a jewelry artist and designer. This collection includes photographs, exhibition information, memberships, awards, examples of work, and clippings.

Architectural drawings and papers.

A handwritten note about coins issued with E.R.I VIII (Edward VIII).

Two envelopes containing photographs of medals and tokens.

Arthur Julius Hacker (1916–1999) and Marilynn Agnes Pyne (1918-2002) married in 1947. They had two children, both born in Albany: Craig Arthur Hacker (1951- ) and Arlynn Jean Hacker (1948- ).

Materials relating to the activities of Hajo Christoph, specifically his time working for the Fort Orange Paper Company designing graphic designs, and time spent as a member of the Albany Artists Group.

Hannah Arendt was among the most influential political thinkers of the 20th century. She and her husband Heinrich Blücher lived in NYC and near Bard College where Blücher taught from 1952 to 1971. After Arendt’s death in 1975, Bard College acquired her personal library of approximately 4000 volumes from her last apartment in New York City. The bulk of the Hannah Arendt Ephemera Collection is made up of paper ephemera found in these books while they were being cataloged. This collection also includes papers from the 1976 Memorial Colloquium, “An Intellectual Appreciation of Hannah Arendt,” and the 2006 Conference, “Thinking in Dark times: A Legacy of Hannah Arendt.” In addition, there are some press clippings and a small collection of correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Alex Bazelow regarding the transcribing of Heinrich Blücher’s lectures.

Three ledgers containing a record of an American Numismatic Association convention auction.

A collection of the Harder and Glass family papers and photographs

This collection contains the personal papers, photographs, writings, and scrapbooks of Mr. Harris Ottaway (1904-1999) as well as his decades of correspondence (1978-1999) with countless pen pals, most of whom were residents at the Kingsway Arms Nursing Home and retirement centers. Mr. Ottaway’s personal organizational system of the correspondence materials is left intact and generally follows a pure chronological order with an index.

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.

Heath Babcock (1901-1992) worked at the New York State Library for 38 years as a medical librarian. This collection contains personal papers, photographs, and a scrapbook.

Papers of Helen Fairchild Smith, Lady Principal, Professor of English, and Dean of Wells College from 1876-1905, including correspondence and diaries.

This collection primarily contains financial records from Aurora Inn Inc., miscellaneous correspondences, and photographs from Wells in the early 20th century.

Personal papers of Helen Quirini, a union organizer, community activist, and lifelong resident of Schenectady.

The collection includes many unpublished projects.

The Hemiup family were residents of Geneva from around 1799 to the 1950s.

The New York residence of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a prominent art collector and industrialist, was designed by Thomas Hastings and completed in 1914. The house, located at One East 70th Street, was opened in December 1935 as a public art gallery, The Frick Collection. Correspondence, telegrams, lists, notes and invoices document the furnishing and interior decoration of the house from 1913 to 1920.

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a Pittsburgh industrialist who made his fortune in coke and steel, was also a prominent art collector. This series consists largely of Frick's incoming correspondence, with some outgoing letters, on matters relating to business and investments, art collecting, political activities, real estate, philanthropy, and family matters.

This collection is made up of business documents and papers that were kept by Henry H. Potter. These documents and papers include bank notes, bills and receipts, checkbooks, checks and cancelled checks, miscellaneous materials, daybooks, and ledgers.

D-Cady Herrick was a prominent Albany lawyer, jurist, and democratic politician whose influence and recognition extended to the national level during the late 19th and early 20th century. This collection contains correspondence, clippings, obituaries, scrapbooks, ledger books, and other business records.

Collection includes correspondence, personal family documents, photographs, and artworks that predate Hetty's time in New York and San Francisco, where she established her reputation as a dynamic member of the psychedelia- tinged counterculture. Before she worked as an illustrator and designer for The Oracle, an influential and cutting- edge San Francisco magazine, and before she met her future husband, experimental musician Angus MacLise, she was sketching cities in Europe, honing her signature graphic style, jotting down marijuana recipes in notebooks, raising her first son, Jason Paul McGee, and corresponding prolifically with individuals like Gerald Brenan, a noted writer and Hispanic scholar who was friends with Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group. This archive attests to all these activities, and the depth with which she pursued them. Hetty brought these materials to the United States with her when she moved to San Francisco in the mid-1960s. She stowed them with her friend, photographer Lisa Law where they remained for several decades. Hetty had discussed these materials with her friend Rachel Marco-Havens, and several years after Hetty's passing in 2011, Law transferred the materials to Marco- Havens as their owner.

Contains business records and other materials created or collected by owners of the Hickory Grove Inn, Otsego County, NY prior to 2015 including Marie Green Coupier. Business records include financial records and four reservation logs, 1979-1983. These annual logs record dining room reservations for individual parties, groups, and events. Also contains Hickory Grove Inn-related material such as advertising, clippings, ephemera, letterhead, menus, photographs, items removed from a scrapbook, and guest book pages for an event celebrating "Jim and Polly's retirement from the Inn," October 1985. The Research Material folder contains numerous copies and some originals of brochures, post cards, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Cooperstown and The Hickory Grove Inn in particular. It is unclear who collected this material.

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.

This collection focuses on New Lisbon, Otsego County, NY and includes labeled photographs and slides of buildings (primarily houses and mills), gravestones, street scenes, residents taken in Garrattsville, Laurens, New Lisbon, and Morris and copious research notes on New Lisbon, and Grasshopper, an Oneida chieftain. Material concerning Mitla C. Parmelee and Elizabeth Pope and correspondence addressed to John Maine or Mayne, Gilbertsville from various men in New Lisbon or Garrattsville, and to Jonathan R. Neff of Garrattsville concerning financial matters are also included.