The Schuyler Family was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey, with Philip Pieterse Schuyler immigrating to New Netherland and settling in Beverwyck before 1650. The family was connected by marriages to many of the other original settlers of New Netherland, and several members played important roles in the development of the new country. This collection contains correspondence, wills, estate records, and other documents.

This consists of several collections consisting primarily or wholly of scrapbooks.

Individual pieces of sheet music comprised mostly of works published and/or written in the Albany area. Also contains three bound albums of sheet music from personal collections.

Robert J. Shillinglaw was a public relations officer for the New York State Public Service Commission for approximately twenty years until his retirement in 1971. The Shillinglaw Photograph Collection primarily contains photographs made in and near Albany.

Collection contains stamps from the Untied States, various parts of the British Empire, the Netherlands as well as a few other nations. The collection consists primarily of albums, some with handwritten notes on the history behind certain stamps.

Small manuscript collection from the musician known as Skip Parsons, a Dixieland Jazz Musician in the Capital Region. This collection contains several compact discs of live performance recordings, ephemera such as programs and advertisements for upcoming concerts, photographs taken of the band and its members during and between performances, correspondence, and newspaper clippings and articles about the band.

The collection includes Civil War letters associated with Oliver and John White; the W.H. Frazier Paper Company, Second Ave., Albany; the Stahler Funeral Home 1930, at different locations including Delaware and Hulburt Streets, Albany; Christopher Stahler Variety Bakery, 220 Lark Street.

St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church, includes records of the church which resulted when two congregations merged in 1881. The church was located on Clinton Avenue at Lexington Avenue. This collection includes record books.

The Street Academy formed in 1970 as a partnership between the Albany Chapter of the Urban League and a group of nuns from the Kenwood Academy of the Sacred Heart. This collection includes photo albums, VHS tapes, yearbooks, commencement programs, building plans, a history of the school, newspaper clippings, a collection of student writings, slides, a plaque, and certificates.

The subject vertical files contain varied information on specific subjects or topics in and around Albany, New York. Folders may include such material as clippings, photocopies, pamphlets, etc., and are arranged by subject headings.