The Emma T. Yates Collection is composed of materials related to the estate, finances, and land transactions of Emma T. Yates.

The collection comprises the records of the Townsend Club of Schenectady, including meeting minutes, notes, and treasurer’s records.

The records of the Woman’s Club of Schenectady collection consist of materials relating to the activities and daily proceedings of the Club, including yearbooks, meeting minutes, financial information, histories of the institution, and so forth.

The records of the Dialogue of Schenectady, Inc., also known as the Dialogue Coffee House, a non-profit organization aimed at creating dialogue through discussion groups and presentations.

The Strong Collection is composed of land records, legal documents, correspondence, receipts, genealogical information, photographs, and other documents pertaining to the Bradt, Strong, and Van Patten families, collected by H. Elizabeth Strong (Hannah Elizabeth Vedder Strong). The collection includes a significant amount of material related to early settlement of Schenectady, as well as the land and trusteeship disputes in the city.

The collection comprises records of Soroptimist International of Schenectady, a non-profit organization affiliated with the world’s largest women’s classified service organization, Soroptimist International, from 1953 through 2019. Materials range from board and business meeting minutes, event programs, membership rosters and board member lists, to Friendship link papers, scrapbooks, awards, newspaper clippings, photo slides and photographs, souvenir items, and more.

The collection is composed of the records of Schenectady Liederkranz, a German-American singing club and social organization founded in 1871 and disbanded in 2005. Materials in the collection include meeting minutes, sheet music, membership records, financial records, newsletters, photographs, event programs, audio-visual materials, plaques and awards, and ephemera.

This collection contains materials from the Schenectady High School system. The bulk of collection dates from 1931 to 1983, however, some materials date from as early as 1927 and as late as 1992. Materials are almost entirely from Linton High School (1957-1992) and Mont Pleasant High School (1931-1992), though a few materials relate to the whole district and a few to Nott Terrace High School (1903-1958). This collection contains newspaper clippings relating to staff and students of both schools, some theater performance materials and posters, Linton HS library and school construction materials, and some general Schenectady School district materials, school newspapers and literary newspapers, photographs, maps, and blueprints.

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

Scrapbooks including topics related to the history of Schenectady, NY, with particular emphasis on the history of railroads, the Mont Pleasant neighborhood, the Westinghouse family and company, local schools and churches, and the YMCA.