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Our collections include diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, maps, audio-visual materials, photographs, ledgers and other primary research materials.
Materials in our collections range from the mid-18th century to the present, covering such topics as the founding of Plattsburgh and other regional towns and villages, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, folklore, land transfers, local businesses and politics, transportation, slavery and anti-slavery, and much more.
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- Addoms Family Papers
- Adgate, D. Whitney Papers
- Adgate, Asa Family Papers, 1799–1888
- Adgate Family Papers, 1796–1931
- Adirondack Wind Ensemble Concert Programs, Posters, and Publicity Materials, 2002–
- Altona Central School Oral History Project
- Andrus, Albert Collection
- Arnold Family Papers, 1858–1914
- Baker Family Papers, 1801–1824
- Barber, Charles H. Collection of North Country Business Records, 1819–1891
- Battey and Ketchum Store Accounts, West Harkness, NY, 1821–1827
- Beckwith, George M. Papers
- Beekmantown, N.Y. School District Records, 1849–1954
- Benton, Lloyd B. Papers, 1913–1969
- Beth Israel Congregation Records & Judaic Studies Collection
- Broadwell, David Family Papers, 1793–1897
- Broder, Lucas Collection
- Brown, George Justice of the Peace and Other Records, Crown Point, N.Y., 1832–1879
- Carnes, Fred Collection of Deeds, Advertising Broadsides, and Court Orders, Clinton & Essex Counties, NY, 1788–1891
- Casey, William C. Store Ledger, Altona, N.Y., 1905–1924
- Champlain College Collection
- Chazy, N.Y. School District Records, 1811–1910
- Cheever Iron Ore Company Papers, 1887–1895
- Clinton County, N.Y. Board of Supervisors Proceedings, 1829–1843
- Clinton County, N.Y. Land Papers
- Clintonville, N.Y. Iron Works Records, 1825–1890
- Includes Collections 64.3, 65.5, and 65.10
- Collins Family and Business Papers, 1814–1904
- Columbe, Filmore J. Business Records, 1886–1928
- Conners, Frank P. Correspondence and Clinton County, N.Y. Historical Writings, 1902–1956
- Cotter, Edwin N., Jr. Collection on John Brown
- Davis, Darius and Orson Tannery Records, Crown Point, N.Y., 1808–1836
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Saranac Chapter (Plattsburgh, N.Y.), Scrapbooks and Other Materials, 1913–1973
- Dean, James Letters, 1801–1817
- Deming-Putnam-Hale Collection
- Ellenburg, NY Supervisor’s Journal, 1846–1856
- Engelhart, Carl William and Margaret Stevens Engelhart Correspondence and Family Papers, 1939–2016
- Estes Family Correspondence, 1856–1916
- Everest, Dr. Allan Seymour Research Materials
- Everett Family Papers
- Feinberg, Benjamin F. & Robert J. Feinberg Political Papers, 1907–1964
- Felton Collection
- Fleury, Joan and Jim Collection of Karen J. Fleury Memorial Bike Path Materials, 1982–1990
- Freligh Family Papers and Business Records, 1772–1906
- Grant, John Collection on Grant, Giraud, and Platt Estates
- Hagey Institute Records, 1894–1896
- Hale, George Washington Starch Factory Accounts, Westville, Franklin County, N.Y., 1871–1880
- Hale, Robert French Collection on Malone and Franklin County, N.Y. History, 1815–1963
- Hartman, Paul H. Collection of Plattsburgh Normal School Sheet Music
- Havens, Levi Civil War Letters
- Heyworth Family Papers, 1814–1916
- Hopkins-Stearns Papers
- The Howell Witherill Hotel Records and Howell Family Papers, 1882–1969
- Hudson Family Papers and Research Materials
- Junior Plattsburg Records, 1916–1919
- Keese Family Letters, 1832–1849
- Kellogg, Dr. David Sherwood, Journals; Clinton County Historical, Military, and Archaeological Research; and Family Materials
- Kent-Delord Collection
- LaDue, Robert Property Surveys
- Langdon Commando, Mary Dorothy Letters
- Larkin Collection
- Lawrence-Webster Company Papers, Malone, N.Y., 1919–1945
- Lee, Warren A. Collection of Crown Point, N.Y. School District Records, 1866–1949
- Lobdell, Frank P. Collection of North Country, N.Y. Genealogical & Historical Materials, 1801–1922
- Macomb, Alexander Letters
- Masonic Lodge No. 281, Peru, N.Y. Records, 1852–1876
- McKinney Family Papers, 1882–1945
- Merrill, Emma Collection of Account Books and Sabbath School Records, Peru, N.Y., 1846–1916
- Murray Family Genealogy (Adirondack Murray)
- New York Postcards in Special Collections
- Northern New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes, Malone, N.Y. Records, 1884–1942
- Northern Railroad Business Records, 1823–1926
- Penfield Collection of Civil War Correspondence and North Country History, 1822–1912
- Peru, Clinton County, N.Y. School District Records, 1849–1937
- Pierson, Nathaniel H. Papers, 1814–1893
- Plattsburgh, N.Y. Town Court Records, 1815–1822
- Plattsburgh, N.Y. Feed & Grocery Company Records, 1919–1938
- Plattsburgh, N.Y. Planning Board Papers, July 1970–December 1977
- Plattsburgh, N.Y. Town Court Records, 1815–1822
- Plattsburgh Pride Inc. Materials, 1980–1984
- Pollard, Dr. Gordon C. Archaeological Research Materials, 1964–2010
- Porter, Marjorie L. Collection of Ballads and Lore
- Rabideau, Moses Joseph Family Papers
- Reynoldston and Franklin County, NY Oral and Digital History Website
- Rider, John Memorandum Book, 1854–1867
- Rogers, J. and J. Company Records
- Rosemeyer, Sean McNamara Collection on Marjorie Lansing Porter and Related Families
- Ross Family Letters
- Rowe, Cynthia Collection on Ellenburg, N.Y., Medical Wast Incinerator Controversy, 1989–1997 and Groundwater Contamination Issue, 1998–2010
- Sanders General Store, Wadhams Mills, N.Y. and Other Ledgers, 1849–1892
- Safford, Daniel Justice of the Peace Documents, Essex County, NY, 1829–1858
- Sawyer, Asa and Joseph Family Letters, 1835–1854
- Sax, Matthew Store Accounts, Chazy Landing, N.Y., 1809–1833
- Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, N.Y. Town Court Records, 1886–1897
- Skaggs, David Curtis, Commodore Thomas Macdonough Research Collection
- Smith, Kate H. Diaries, 1900–1924
- Smith, Orville A. & Co. Farm Account Book, Willsboro, N.Y., 1860–1884
- Society of the Second War with Great Britain in the State of New York Materials, 1873–1930
- Sperry Family and Business Papers
- Stetson-Thew Family Papers
- Stevenson, George, Journals and Papers, 1838–1857
- Stowell, Frank W. Business Records, 1901–1922
- Student Historic Preservation Projects for Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1989–2018
- Suburban Transportation Company Records, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1913–1914
- Thew Family Letters
- Tormey, Michael and William Hartwell Forest Lands Correspondence and Papers, 1857–1898
- Torrance Family Letters, Receipts, and Other Material
- Tremblay, Peter Business and Personal Papers
- Trimble, Chilion A. Correspondence, 1809–1861
- Trombly Family Homestead & Farm Financial Records, 1873–1963
- Union House, North Lawrence, N. Y. Hotel Register, 1877–1881
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U.S. Customs Office, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Correspondence, 1879–1884
- Walworth, Hiram Collection on Alexander H. Grant, Joseph Giraud, and Zephaniah C. Platt
- Weaver, Nathan R. Diaries, 1917–1927
- Weed-Standish Collection
- Wells, Phyllis Collection on Clinton County Churches and Other Clinton County History
- West Bangor Collection
- White, Philip L. Beekmantown, N.Y. Manuscript, 1769–1849
- Windsor Hotel, Elizabethtown, N.Y. Records, 1921–1937
- Winkel, Nina Papers and Sculpture Records, 1931–1989
- Wool, John Ellis Correspondence, 1830–1866