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.

This series is comprised of log books, receipts, account books, correspondence and other administrative documents. Two oversize boxes are present in this series that contain pins, a Pullman Company tea towel, a plate with the inscription The Empire State Express, as well as cash books.

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 Jewish Community of the Albany, New York area is featured in the Collection which was brought together to show community involvement in the region by the Greater Albany Jewish Federation and the University Libraries of the University at Albany, SUNY. This collection contains photographs, meeting minutes, commemoration papers, local area newspapers, academic articles, community reports, and a prayer book.

Series 1 contains the meeting minutes of the Congregation of Beth El Jacob from 1957-1961, local area Jewish newspapers, newspaper clippings, mortgage files, various local area Jewish organizations' anniversary commemoration pamphlets, academic articles, community reports, a master list of Soviet Jewish immigrants, and a bound volume of a Jewish prayer book in Yiddish.

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 includes autobiographical material and items from current biographical directories. Articles about Brown are from August 1962, January 1963, and August 1983. It also includes undated photographs. There are clippings concerning Lt. Col. Helen E. Brown, Anne Carroll Moore (obituary), Roaul Dufy, and Pierre Bonnard. Interview material (1964-82) is included as well as biographical information supplied by the processors.

A 1940 graduate of the New York State College for Teachers, Brown was a respected children's book writer and illustrator, and a three-time Caldecott Medal winner.

This series is divided into a small amount of personal correspondence and a large amount of professional correspondence including selected subjects (Alice Dalgliesh, Bertha Miller, Rith Holl Viguers, Lee Kingman, Lee Anna Deadrick as well as collected letters from librarians, teachers, and school children).The largest amount of correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to specific publishing projects.

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

This collection contains records of locomotive engines built between 1861 and 1921 and used by the Great Western Railway.

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.