Capital District Reference Collection, 1868-2005, Undated
Collection context
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Summary
- Creator:
- State University of New York at Albany.
- Abstract:
- This collection was artificially assembled by University at Albany library staff in the mid to late 20th century to provide general reference information about cities, communities, and towns and various aspects of life in the Capital District of New York State.
- Extent:
- 15.13 cubic ft.
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, box, folder, Capital District Reference Collection, 1868-2005. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Capital District Reference Collection).
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists of reference materials primarily concerning cities, communities, towns and various aspects of life in the Capital District of New York State but also contains items concerning other regions of the state, including the Adirondacks, Buffalo, New York City, and Ulster County. The archivist has defined the Capital District as consisting of Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, and Washington Counties.
The collection primarily consists of newspapers and newspaper clippings but also includes advertisements, applications, art books, bank signets, booklets, book plates, brochures, bulletins, by-laws, catalogues, charts, circulars, city and community plans, club records, contracts, correspondence, digests, directions, directories, event flyers and programs, greeting cards, guides, histories of local communities and institutions, illustrations, information cards, instructions, lectures, lists, magazines and magazine clippings, maps, membership cards and forms, memoranda, monographs, newsletters, notices, photographs, political primers, posters, prints, proposals, reports, schedules, short biographies and descriptions, short publications, speeches, statements of condition, studies, and surveys. Finally, the collection contains materials pertaining to the Albany Times Union, such as audit reports, the organizations's by-laws and constitution, and a survey of employees' experience and wages from 1946.
Some newspapers articles in the collections are split between a folder and flat file, specificially those concerning Newburgh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, and Schuylerville.
The vast majority of the materials are in English, but one of the items, which concerns the Spanish Center in Albany, is in Spanish.
- Biographical / historical:
- This collection was initially assembled by library staff at the University at Albany sometimes in the mid 20th century and was later added to by library and archival staff over time until 2005. The vast majority of the newspaper clippings in the collection date from the 1950s to the early 1908s, and the bulk of them span the period from 1977 to 1981.
- Acquisition information:
- This collection was initially assembled and arranged by the library staff at the University at Albany sometime in the mid to late 20th Century. The exact date or year of initial creation is unknown. The exact manner in which the department of special collections and archives acquired the collection is also unknown, but its likely that library staff simply moved the collection from the library's main collections to those of special collections and archives.
- Processing information:
- The collection was processed by Michael David Munsey in in 2024-2025.
- Arrangement:
- The collection is arranged alphabetically, and there are no series.
- Physical location:
- The materials are located onsite in the department.
Indexed terms
Using these materials
- Access:
- The archives are open to the public and anyone is welcome to visit and view the collections.
- Restrictions:
- Access to this collection is unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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This page may contain links to digital objects. Access to these images and the technical capacity to download them does not imply permission for re-use. Digital objects may be used freely for personal reference use, referred to, or linked to from other web sites.
Researchers do not have permission to publish or disseminate material from these collections without permission from an archivist and/or the copyright holder.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming to the laws of copyright. Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and/or by the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. More information about U.S. Copyright is provided by the Copyright Office. Additionally, re-use may be restricted by terms of University Libraries gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks.
The Department of Special Collections and Archives is eager to hear from any copyright owners who are not properly identified so that appropriate information may be provided in the future.
- Preferred citation:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, box, folder, Capital District Reference Collection, 1868-2005. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Capital District Reference Collection).