Collections : [Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts]

This series contains correspondence pertaining to book club business, organizational history, laws, and membership information.

The majority of the Menands Book Club Records consists of meeting and treasurer notes and program schedules. There also is correspondence, club histories and an information packet of the village of Menands, NY Anniversary.

The Administrative series consists of Board and business meeting minutes, constitutions, proposed changes to the constitution, annual and executive meeting files, files of some Club Presidents, and rules and regulations.

The Woman's Club of Albany Records document the day-to-day operations of the first 100 years of this community organization founded in 1910.

Dorothy (nee Langley) Sweeney graduated from St. Mary's Institute in Amsterdam, New York in 1941. After graduation, Sweeney accepted an office position at General Electric in Schenectady. In her off hours she spent time at WGY, GE's AM radio station, where her brother Edward Langley acted and wrote for the station's dramatic productions. She later worked at WGY and in radio in New York City. Sweeney provided sound effects for several programs and her scripts from this work form the bulk of this collection.

This series consists of copies of art and professional vitae, newspaper clippings about Geof Huth and his work, school records, records relating to readings given by and art shows displaying Huth's visual art and visual poetry, and files relating to associations Huth has been active in (including archival associations).

The majority of these papers focus on Geof Huth's artistic activities: his creation of artworks, his involvement in the fields of visual and experimental poetry, his productions as a micropublisher, and his work as an active blogger in the worldwide network of online poets. They also document his personal life and professional career in archives and records management.

Includes documentation of Huth's art activities and non-work writing activities, including files on his art exhibitions and poetry readings. Includes one cubic foot of odd-sized exhibition records, about a cubic foot of rolled acetates from a year 2000 exhibition, and two metal file card cases documenting the submission of his writing to journals.

The collection consist of the Bridge Line Historical Society's newsletter, as well as original maps, drawings, and related material documenting the Delaware & Hudson Railway, a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States.

The Delmar Progress Club Records document the day-to-day operations and communitiy activities of this Bethlehem-N.Y. based organization founded in 1901.

The Gregory Maguire Papers are a collection of materials from the American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Out of Oz, and several dozen other novels for adults and children.

The Henry T. Hettger Papers document Hettger's published and unpublished contributions to various numismatic publications, his coin purchases, and various correspondence.

The Joachim Frank Papers document Frank's artistic pursuits and accomplishments.

This collection documents the annual meetings and conferences of the New York Archives Conference (NYAC) and its predecessor organization, the Lake Ontario Archives Conference (LOAC).