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

The collection contains a significant amount of material pertaining to the Delaware and Hudson Railroad (D&H) where Harry E. Schultz, Jr. was employed as a civil engineer for more than 40 years.

The Henry T. Hettger Papers document Hettger's published and unpublished contributions to various numismatic publications, his coin purchases, and various correspondence.

This collection contains a hand-corrected typescript of a novel later published in 1983, Tdische Anstsse.

This collection documents the establishment and first quarter century of activities of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.

James Sullivan was the principal of the Boy's High School in Brooklyn, New York, 1907-1916. The collection contains photographs compiled by Sullivan of the interiors of high school libraries in Albany, Buffalo, and New York City from 1916-1929. In 1940 the Department of Librarianship at the New York State College for Teachers (a predecessor of the Information Science program at the University at Albany) added photographs of high school libraries in Albany, Elmira, Glens Falls, and Malverne, as well as several school libraries in Detroit, Michigan.

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

This collection documents Leona Train Rienow's professional career as a writer. The papers contain a significant number of drafts of Leona Train Rienow's manuscripts, papers concerning her research for her books and articles, and correspondence files.

This series consists of drafts of several books, short stories, and articles authored by Leona Train Rienow, many of which are undated. Drafts pertaining to her books include The Friar's Lantern; A Kingdom for Ethelfleda; Locusts; Mystery of the Midnight Fire; Fleda, King Alfred's Daughter; Mesaba Plunder; and River without Any End. Drafts of short stories include Bed and Breakfast; Cradle of Humanity; Fair on Morrow; Gekocht Aardappelen; Gory Glory; The Great Salt Age; Hospitality-Old World Style; I Dare You to Sleep in Your Own Guest Room; I Dare You to Sleep in Your Own Spare Room; It's the British Air!; Monuments by God; Peasoup and Snails; Peeking Gendarmes; Professor, Your Goodwill is Showing; Screwball Authorities: Our Idolatry of Big Names; Tourists Delight; You Can't Buck Tradition; and We Become Class-Conscious.

This collection contains anonymous manuscript masses and other liturgical music dating from approximately the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

A hand-corrected carbon copy of a dissertation on the economic philosophy of National Socialism, which was written, probably in the late 1920s, for a doctorate at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

The Mark Nepo Papers contain a manuscript and research materials related to his literary career.