Collections

The City of Buffalo, N.Y. rapidly grew from a small village along Lake Erie to a bourgeoning industrial hub with the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. The city later became a center for the Steel Industry and other manufacturing.

Students in Professor Laura Ettinger's History of Public Health in America course conducted audio interviews with relatives and friends about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their lives so that people in the future can learn about what it was like to live in 2020 and 2021.

Scrapbooks assembled by Don Schultz depicting boyhood during WWII (World War, 1939-1945)

This collection shares numerous stories from those living within Cortland County as well as those working or studying at the State University of New York College at Cortland. It primarily includes audio recordings and digitized scrapbooks.

Personal memories from residents of the Town of Bethlehem from the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020.

Survive, Remember, Thrive | Armenian Traditions in Western New York preserves the traditions, memories, and stories of the local Armenian community through this audio interview collection and the original shortform documentary video series produced by the C