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New York State Repositories and New York History

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Below is a growing list of  links for archival repositories in New York State.

Albany Academy Archives - holds materials pertaining to the history of the Albany Academy and the city of Albany, New York.

Albany Public Library - Albany, NY history and genealogy.

Albany Institute of History and Art McKinney Library - history, art and culture of the upper Hudson Valley region from the 17th century to the present.

Alfred University, Special Collections

Altamont Free Library

Arvilla E. Diver Memorial Library, Schaghticoke

Bard College Library, Special Collections, also The Bluecher Archive

Barnard College Archives

Berlin Free Town Library

Berne Public Library

Bethlehem Public Library

Binghamton University, Special Collections

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Library

Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection

Buffalo State College, Archives and Special Collections

Canisius College, Archives

Capital District Library Council - list of repositories in the Capital District area.

Castleton Public Library

Cheney Free Public Library

Cohoes Public Library

Columbia County Online Historical Archives

Columbia University Medical Center Archives & Special Collections

Columbia University

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Library and Archives (Smithsonian Institution)

Cooper Union Archives

Cornell University

East Greenbush Community Library

Eleanor Roosevelt ValKill Home

Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, LaGuardia and Wagner Archives

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library

George Eastman House Photography Collection

Grafton Community Library

Guilderland Public Library

Hamilton College, Archives and Rare Book Room

Hartwick College, Paul Fenimore Cooper, Jr. Archives

Houghton College

Hunter College Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

Ithaca College, Archives

Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Special Collections

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Research Center

La Guardia and Wagner Archives at La Guardia Community College

Lehman College, Special Collections

Leo Baeck Institute

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

Menands Public Library

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

Mount Sinai School of Medicine Archives

Municipal Archives of the City of New York

Museum of Modern Art, Archives

Museum of the City of New York

Nassau Free Library

National Archives-Northeast Region (New York)

National Baseball Hall of Fame Library

National Park Service. Manhattan Sites

New City Library

New School for Social Research, Fogelman Library Special Collections

New York Academy of Medicine, Historical Collections

New York Botanical Garden

New-York Historical Society Library

New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College

New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Brill Library Archives and Special Collections

New York Public Library for Performing Arts

New York Public Library

Manuscripts and Archvies

New York State Archives and Records Administration (SARA)

New York State College of Ceramics Archives (Alfred University)

New York State Historical Association

New York State Library, Manuscripts and Special Collections

New York University, Special Collections and Archives

New York University Medical Center, Archives and Special Collections

Niagara County Community College, Special Collections

NICHE Links (Upper Hudson Library System)

Ogdensburg Public Library. Special Collections

Olmsted Archives

Ontario County. Department of Records, Archives, and Information Management Services

Parsons School of Design

Petersburgh Public Library

Poestenkill Library

Queens Borough Public Library

Queens College, Louis Armstrong House and Archives

RCS Community Library

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Archives and Special Collections

Rensselaer Public Library

Rensselaerville Library

Rochester Institute of Technology, Archives

Rochester Museum and Science Center

Rockefeller University, Archive Center

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Sand Lake Town Library

Saratoga National Historical Park

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Division

Skidmore University, Special Collections and the Pohndorff Room

St. Lawrence University, Rare Books and Special Collections/University Archives

State University College at Buffalo, Archives and Special Collections

State University College at Fredonia

State University of New York at Albany

State University of New York Brockport, Archives

State University of New York at Buffalo

State University of New York at Oswego, Special Collections

State University of New York, Plattsburgh, Special Collections

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Special Collections Department

State University of New York. Health Science Center, Brooklyn

State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, Historical Collections

Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island

Stephentown Memorial Library

Syracuse University

Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives - a unique center for scholarly research on anarchism, communism labor history, and socialism.

Troy Public Library

Union College, Special Collections

Union Theological Seminary, Burke Library

University at Albany Department of Special Collections and Archives

University of Rochester

Upper Hudson Library System, NICHE Links

Valley Falls Free Library

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site

Vassar College, Special Collections

Voorheesville School District Library

Watervliet Public Library

Westchester Library System Special Collections

Westerlo Public Library

White Plains Public Library, Special Collections

William K. Sanford Town Library, Loudonville

Women's Rights National Historical Park

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Library and Archives

Outside of New York

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) - is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress.  NUCMC cataloging is placed in Research Libraries Information Network Archival and Mixed Collections file (RLIN AMC) which has close to 500,000 records available in the bibliographic database, for archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies located throughout North America.


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