Collections

Calendar records are listings of particular cases held on a certain date. The Albany County Court Calendar Records here list cases according to date. This collection contains calendar records.

Photographs, minutes, reports, and records of the Albany Fresh Air Guild from the years 1927-1957

This collection includes material related to the Albany Friends Meeting's social justice activities, specifically having to do with injustices within the New York State judicial system.

The Albany General Store Records contain business records kept by an unidentified proprietor of a general store which sold dry goods, rum, and other merchandise.

This collection contains the records of the Albany Hardware and Iron Co., a wholesale hardware distributor in Albany, New York. The collection contains administrative records, photographs, catalogs, and scrapbooks, along with newspapers ads and articles on the company and the men who ran it.

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings from both Albany, New York and the Netherlands relating to the “Albany Helps Nijmegen” campaign of 1947.

The materials in this collection deal with the erection, in Albany’s Academy Park in 1928, of a memorial to the Albany-born, eminent scientist Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Members and officers of the Albany Institute were active in this project. Materials include correspondence of the memorial committee concerning fundraising, choice of a memorial location and sculptor, and the ceremony marking completion of the monument. Also included are letters to and from, and contracts with, the sculptor chosen, John Flanagan (1865-1952). Programs for and invitations to the inaugural ceremony are included, as is some biographical material on Joseph Henry.

This collection includes a variety of Albany-related ephemera such as invitations, tickets, notices, trade cards, currency, greeting cards and envelopes.

The subjects of the collection are the letters and communications of Former Mayors of the City of Albany to others. This collection contains receipts, licenses, property deeds, supply queries, and correspondence.