Included in this collection is Green’s journal which describes his journey from upstate New York to Mississippi where he acquires a teaching position, his social and professional activities, encounters with slaves and his detestation of slavery, and his health, which along with his distaste for “the country,” precipitates his return North. The journal picks up again as Greene is practicing law in Livingston County, NY and documents his professional, familial and social activities, and his health.

This collection contains photos taken and research done in the 1920s -1940s by a traveler with a deep interest in New York State history. Images of the following regions: the Adirondacks, Capitol, Catskill, Hudson and Mohawk River Valley, greater New York City, Long Island, and Niagara; and of the 1939 New York World’s Fair are included.

Papers include journals and diaries of travel to, and residence in, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), 1822-25, 1829; correspondence of Stewart and his wife (Harriet Bradford Stewart), 1822-36; and printed items. Other items are journals of voyages on U.S.S. Guerriere and U.S.S. Vincennes to and from Hawaii, 1829-30; to British Isles, 1832; to the Mediterranean on U.S.S. United States, 1834; to Spain and Portugal on U.S.S. Brandywine, 1839-41, along with a sketch book from the latter. There are also letter books kept on voyages on U.S.S. Congress to South America, 1850-52, and on U.S.S. Niagara, 1860-62, around the world via Japan, China, Mozambique, Cape of Good Hope, Charleston, South Carolina, and Cuba.

This collection consists of illustrations of American topics, mainly prints from various sources. It contains individually printed pieces and prints taken from books and magazines. Other illustrations include newspaper and magazine clippings, transparencies of works of art and other printed materials, advertisements, and photographs.

This collection consists of the records of Smalley Theatres, Inc., accumulated at its home office in Cooperstown, N.Y., 1912-1955. The daily and weekly statements, which constitute a significant portion of the records, were collected from the theaters in Camden, Cooperstown, Delhi, Dolgeville, Fort Plain, Hensonville, Johnstown, Norwich, Oxford, Sharon Springs, Sidney, St. Johnsville, Stamford, and Walton, N.Y., before coming to the home office. They provide excellent detail on attendance and box office receipts for films shown at each location.

This collection contains primarily business, as well as personal, papers of Stuyvesant Fish and his son, Stuyvesant Fish Jr. It includes 30 letterbooks from father and son, 1903-1944, which contain name indexes and subject indexes (after 1923). The Stuyvesant Fish letterbooks contain business and personal letters sent, including a substantial amount of discussion of political, historical, business, and cultural issues with various people in government, industry, and other occupations. The Fish, Jr. letterbooks focus more on the day-to-day running of the Nochpeem Corporation, a real estate and financial company, and his other business interests. Charles H. Wenman, secretary and treasurer of the Nochpeem Corporation, wrote a substantial number of the letters in the Fish, Jr. letterbooks. Additionally, there is an abundant amount of correspondence (8 folders) discussing the construction, furnishing, and maintenance of Stuyvesant Fish's mansion at 25 East 78th Street in New York City, 1896-1903; along with correspondence connected to Stuyvesant Fish, Jr.'s book, 1600-1914. The collection also contains 5 volumes of household expenses of Stuyvesant Fish and son; Nochpeem Corporation records, particularly receipts, invoices, and rents collected from 19-20 Gramercy Park in New York City by H.W. Fenniman Real Estate; records from the Stuyvesant Fish [Jr.] et. al. vs. Demotte, Inc. et. al. court case involving the 25 East 78th St. property; genealogy of the Fish, Anthon, and related families; Fish Land Corporation records; Fish family photographs, including an album from Stuyvesant Fish's trip(s) to Europe and North Africa in the early 20th century; and Hamilton Fish estate papers, along with his diary notes on "conduct" in Congress.

Minutes, stock transfers, and other papers, 1803-59; contracts, 1802-10; orders for dividends, 1810-13, 1823-27; dividend demand notes, 1821-59; receipts and bills for supplies and services, 1811-56; incomplete commuter lists, 1830-54; appointments of proxies, 1803-09; certificates, tables, and notices of elections, 1804-12; daybooks, 1811, 1832-35; and correspondence of Samuel S. Forman, 1829-35, and Sidney T. Fairchild, 1836-58, officers of the company. Also a photographic copy of a map of the road in Otsego, Herkimer, Madison, and Onondaga Counties, from near Richfield Springs to beyond Cazenovia.

The records in this collection document nearly every phase of operation of the Tuller House, Richfield Springs, New York. It consists of advertising copy; bills including those for goods, freight, power, and labor from scores of business establishments; broadsides; business cards and flyers; catalogs; cancelled checks; correspondence; employee applications and blank forms; employee rosters; inquiries from salesmen and prospective guests, entertainers, and employees; insurance documents; invoices; equipment manuals; newspaper copy; receipts including tax receipts; solicitations; statements; and telegrams.

This collection is the by-product of Van Cleaf Bachman's research into the Low Dutch language -- which he describes as a form of Holland Dutch spoken in parts of New York State and New Jersey by the early nineteenth century -- and the preparation of a Low Dutch dictionary.

This collection contains a rough draft and final copy of Jedlick's 1967 Masters Thesis, "Landscape Window Shades of the 19th Century in New York and New England" for the Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, NY; a 22 page booklet entitled, Shades of History; and material related to the thesis and booklet. It also of correspondence, b&w and color photographs, publications and related material in which Jedlick is credited for his scholarship and photography.