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The collection contains audition posters for the years 1961-1984, performance posters for the years 1960-1987, the 1986 Albany High School 45th Anniversary Reunion program, 1969 reprints of Metropolitan Opera House Performance posters from 1907 and 1931, and four bound scrapbooks which contain letters, newspaper clippings, thank you letters, organization constitution, outline of plans for organization, photographs of performances and rehearsals.

The Capitol Hill Choral Society was a mixed choral group created by Judson Rand (conductor) in spring 1953, with its premiere performance on December 18, 1953. The Society’s constitution from 1953, states that it was created to educate both the members of the organization and the outside community through the study and artistic presentation of choral music of the highest quality. This collection contains songbooks, a photograph, and performance programs.

The collection consists of a random grouping of ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and tintypes; all photographic techniques popular in the United States from the late 1830’s to the turn of the century (19th into 20th). Most of the collection, like the predominant subject matter of these photographic processes, are portraits. Some landscape photography was done using each of the three photographic techniques; few survive. Landscape photography would blossom with the advent of the “paper process” which, though still cumbersome by today’s standards, was much less cumbersome than the equipment and process required, even for the tintype.

Robert W. Gibson was the architect for the Cathedral of All Saints, in Albany, New York. This collection includes 47 drawings and sketches on linen and tissue, 10 photos of interior, 1891 in a photo collection. Details of windows, columns, choir, etc, circa 1883.

Records of the Center Square Association consisting of correspondence, meeting minutes, legal documentation, photographs, printed material and newspaper clippings re: to issues of concern to the Association, including zoning, code enforcement, parking, neighborhood and community affairs.

The collection is composed of seven bound volumes compiled and written by Charles Alexander Clinton, the son of former New York Governor, DeWitt Clinton. Included in the collection is a copybook of letters drafted soon after his father’s death, a commonplace book, a volume of notes from a law class and four volumes called Flim Flams that contain newspaper clippings mostly dealing with his father’s political career.

Contains prints, photographs, and texts related to the planning of the Robert Burns statue in Washington Park Historic District (Albany, New York). Calverley researched Robert Burns’ true appearance, previous depictions, statues of Burns, statues of the intended style, and illustrated interpretations of Burns’ most famous poems. Information concerning the St. Andrew’s Society, who commissioned the statue, is included.

The City Neighbors Project Collection includes materials collected between 1989 and 2001 and primarily contains documents relating to immigrants’ personal family lives, and community life in Albany. Items in this collection are primary research materials. A large body of materials documenting the administrative and organizational functions of the City Neighbors Project remains unprocessed as of July 2002. The research collection is divided into 4 series: Oral History Tapes; Oral History Documentation; Research Materials; and Photos.

Clarence Hamilton Corning was born in 1834. A nephew of Erastus Corning, Clarence eventually became an iron merchant in Albany, New York. Corning fought for the Union during the Civil War, and was eventually wounded at Cold Harbor. Following the war’s end, he married Mary Catherine Libby in June 1866. They had one child, Howard. Clarence Corning died in Albany in July 1879. This collection contains military materials and ephemera.

Consolidated Car-Heating Company (CCHC) was formed by the merger of two companies, McElroy Car Heating Company, Albany, New York, and Sewall Safety Car Heating Company, Portland, Maine. CCHC was incorporated in the State of West Virginia on June 24, 1889. This collection includes patent files, financial records, stockholder records, corporate records, legal files, and miscellaneous files.