Will Hicok Low (1853-1932) was born in Albany, New York, and became an artist, muralist, and writer. This collection includes correspondence, personal papers, photographs, and reproductions of his work.

The White Plains Collection includes books, photographs, maps, oral histories, pamphlets, clippings, and ephemera related to the history of White Plains, NY. The collection dates from 1870 to the present.

Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932) was born in Albany, New York, and became a prominent landscape painter. This collection includes diaries, correspondence, personal papers, studio books, and photographs.

Papers of Virginia Shattuck King (Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University School of Nursing, 1944) including photographs, programs, scrapbook pages, and an autobiography.

This collection contains the papers of Thomas A.C. Rennie and has two series: Patient Files and Professional Activities.

The Meadows collection is comprised of documents, papers, and photographs collected by the families that owned The Meadows mansion in Cazenovia, NY. These families include The Ledyards, The Hubbards, and The Oakmans, providing a snapshot of the personal life of an upper class family during the mid 1800s to the 1950s. Please see the scope and content note for a more in depth description of the collection.

Photograph album "The Way We Were, 1943-1946," documenting Patricia Hayes Keough's nursing education at the Bryn Mawr College Summer School of Nursing and the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing (later the Columbia University School of Nursing).

Diaries, reprints of scientific articles, photographs, genealogical material, certificates, and awards. The bulk of the papers consists of the diaries physician and public health official Norman Jolliffe kept intermittently from 1935 to a few months before his death.

This collection contains records from the New York Psychiatric Society. The collection has 5 series: Secretary-Treasurer, Committees, Society Publications, Papers Delivered to the Society, and Emergency Committee of Neuro-Psychiatric Societies.

Minutes of the “Scientific Meetings of German Physicians” of the German Hospital and Dispensary of New York.

The collection consists of the papers of members of the Melville family and are therefore arranged around these individuals. The papers span 1825 to 1979. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1942. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, photographs, film, audio tapes, maps, architectural drawings, ephemera, artifacts and other papers of the Melville Family. Although the bulk of the collection deals with the papers of John Ward Melville (commonly referred to as "Ward") it also contains the papers of his grandfather Francis Melville, father Frank Melville, mother Jennie Macconnell, himself and his wife Dorothy Bigelow. There are limited records of the Melville Shoe Corporation.

Mary Palmer Calverley Byrne-Ivy (1870- ) was a singer, pianist and voice teacher. Mary's father was Charles Calverley, an artist who served as an assistant to Erastus Dow Palmer for a time in Albany, New York.

Short entries on weather, visits made, work done, European trip of 1857, and guest lists for parties.

This collection contains the correspondence between Launt Thompson (1883-September 1894) and his three children, a son, Lancelot C. Thompson, and two daughters, Mariette and Florence ”Flossy” Thompson, mostly in the form of letters addressed to Thompson from his children dating from 1880 to 1888. Along with these letters, the collection contains a series of drawings addressed to Thompson from his children dating from the same period, as well as “Mental Photographs” (a list of hypothetical questions which the children answered) dating from 1886. The collection also contains a letter, dated February 24, 1883 from a man named Bayard addressed to Launt Thompson regarding Thompson’s sculpture, Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont, (1884) located in Wilmington, Delaware.

Records of patients seen by neurologists James Ramsay Hunt, approximately 4,219 cases dating from 1903 to 1937.

This collection, which dates from 1740-2004, includes dozens of hand drawn maps, and maps with engravings, most of them originals, as well as bound atlases, representing the City of Hudson and its immediate surrounding area, including Columbia County and portions of adjacent counties as well as New York State. These items contain important information about the history of Hudson and the surrounding region – from insurance and railroad maps, topographical and geological maps, to bird’s eye view drawings and developmental proposals. The collection also includes maps that provide information about The Hudson River as a site of commerce, industry, travel, and tourism, as well as wildlife and residential life, since the settling of the city of Hudson. The collection features maps and bound atlases from a multitude of important historic publishers, including Beers, Ellis & Co.; H.H. Rowley & Co; F.W. Beers; Hudson River Sloop Clearwater; The Sanborn Map Company; and Frank E. Richards, among others.

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.

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

This collection contains the papers of Eric T. Carlson, who was an American psychiatrist, historian, and director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry. The collection has 6 series: Writings, Publications, Correspondence, Adolf Meyer Seminars, Subject Files, and Audio-Visual Materials.

This collection contains the papers of Emily Martin, who worked for the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Frankwood E. Williams, Clifford Beers, and Thomas Salmon. The collection has 4 series: Photographs, Printed materials, Subject files, and Correspondence.

This collection contains the papers of Clifford W. Beers, who was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement. The collection has six series: Correspondence, Writings, Artwork, Photographs, Printed Materials and Scrapbooks, and Subject Files.

The Caroline Slade Collection reflects the life of author and activist, Caroline Slade, including drafts of her writing, personal and business correspondence, and scrapbooks she maintained. The collection also consists of published pieces, photographs, and ephemera.

An almanac is an annual publication that lists current information about one or more subjects. This collection includes almanacs.

Diaries of the Rev. Alexander Huntington Clapp of Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, and of his wife, Emily Copland Clapp; also an inventory of Rev. Clapp’s library, a record of sermons preached, and miscellany.