SUNY Plattsburgh Special Collections - Manuscript Guides

Special Collections Manuscript Guides

These guides include diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, maps, audio-visual materials, photographs, ledgers, and other primary research materials.

Materials range from the mid-18th century to the present, covering such topics as the founding of Plattsburgh and other regional towns and villages, the Battle of Plattsburgh, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, folklore, land transfers, local businesses and politics, transportation, slavery and anti-slavery, and much more.

Manuscript Guides are available in print or as PDF downloads. (Note: The PDF files require the latest version of Acrobat Reader, which is available as a free download).

• Addoms Family Papers
• Adgate, D. Whitney Papers
• Adgate Family Papers
• Altona Central School Oral History Project
• Adgate, Asa Family Papers
• Andrus, Albert Collection
• Barber, Charles Collection
• Beckwith, George M. Papers
• Beth Israel Congregation Records & Judaic Studies Collection
• Broadwell Papers
• Broder, Lucas Collection
• Champlain College Collection
• Clinton County Land Papers
• Clintonville, N.Y. Iron Works Records, 1825-1890
  • Includes Collections 64.3, 65.5, and 65.10
• Collins Family Papers 
  • Mary's Diary: Courting, Schooling, and Skating in Mid-Victorian Plattsburgh, New York
• Cotter, Edwin N., Jr. Collection on John Brown
• Crown Point School District Records, 1866-1949
• Dean, James Letters
• Deming-Putnam-Hale Collection
• Estes Family Correspondence, 1856-1916
• Everest, Dr. Allan Seymour Research Materials
• Everett Family Papers
• Felton Collection
• Fleury, Joan and Jim Collection of Karen J. Fleury Memorial Bicycle Path Materials
• Freligh Family Papers
• Grant, John Collection on Grant, Giraud, and Platt Estates
• Hartman, Paul H. Collection
• Havens, Levi Civil War Letters 
• Hopkins-Stearns Papers
• Howell Witherill Hotel and Family Papers
• Hudson Family Papers
• Keese Family Letters
• Kellogg, Dr. David Sherwood Collection
• Langdon Commando, Mary Dorothy Letters
• Larkin Collection
• Lobdell Collection
• Macomb, Alexander Letters
• New York Postcards in Special Collections
• Penfield Collection on Mooers, Altona, and West Chazy, 1822-1912
• Plattsburgh Feed & Grocery Company Records, 1919-1938
• Pollard, Dr. Gordon C. Archaeological Research Materials, 1964-2010 
  • Pollard Collection Photograph Index
• Porter, Marjorie Lansing Papers 
  • Guide to the Marjorie Lansing Porter Photograph Collection 
  • Guide to the Marjorie Lansing Porter Ballad and Lore Collection 
• Rogers, J. and J. Company Records
• Ross Family Letters 
• Sawyer, Asa and Joseph Family Letters
• Skaggs, David Curtis Commodore Thomas Macdonough Research Collection
• Society of the Second War with Great Britain in the State of New York Collection
• Sperry Family and Business Papers 
• Stetson-Thew Family Papers
• Stevenson, George Papers
• Stowell, Frank W. Business Records
• Thew Family Letters
• Tormey, Michael-William Hartwell Correspondence
• Torrance Family Letters, Receipts, and Other Material
• Tremblay, Peter Business and Personal Papers
• Trimble, Chilion A. Correspondence, 1809-1861
• Trombly, Charles Sr. and Charles Jr., Homestead Financial Records, 1873-1959
• Walworth, Hiram Collection on Alexander H. Grant, Joseph Giraud, and Zephaniah C. Platt
• Weed-Standish Collection
• Wells, Phyllis Collection on Clinton County Churches and Other Clinton County History
• West Bangor Collection
• Windsor Hotel Records
• Wool, John Ellis Papers