Collections

Research by Freeport Village historian Clinton E. Metz

The United States of America incarcerates and medicates people at a greater rate than any nation on earth.  This is the first response to real or perceived crimes and illnesses.  Bringing light to this situation is the intention of this book.  The authors have survived the priso

This collection contains the papers of Henry Darwin Didama, who became a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1872 and Dean of the College of Medicine beginning in 1888.

This collection of letters, diaries, and ephemera documents Lucy Carlile Watson, a prominent suffragette and philanthropist from Utica, NY.

The Maurice Leyden Collection consists of diaries, photographs, correspondence, financial records, essays and military records of Maurice Leyden. The collection also includes twenty-two diaries, dating from 1860-1886 and written Sarah Woodruff Pottle, a relative of Mr.

This book is an attempt to expand the concepts of Prison Theology by integrating concepts of Relational Theology.  Relational Theology can be seen as an understanding that God is embraced by the dynamic between two or more; that is, between

PRISON THEOLOGY is an attempt to build a knowledge base that can offer solutions to “crime and punishment”.  This theology was developed among multitudes of incarcerated people in the American empire.  People most affected by punishment are

Beginning in 1777, this collection follows Roelof Josiah Eltinge through his legal troubles of being an accused loyalist in New Paltz, NY.

Board minutes from the Town of Red Hook in Dutchess County.

Letters received or collected by Samuel Jones from his family, friends, and associates, and Samuel Jones’ diary which he kept from 1821 to 1855.

This collection includes a portrait of Lucy Carlisle Watson and a manuscript describing the history of Utica's women's rights movements.

This collection contains images of diaries belonging to American men who served in various wars, including the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.