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Statewide Resources: Web Exhibits

Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives
Title Online Exhibits Description A variety of online exhibits which incorporate photographs and documents hosted by the ViaHealth Archives Consortium. The constorium specializes in the preservation of healthcare history in Rochester, specifically focusing on the Rochester General and Genesee Hospitals and their associated organizations.

Barnard College
Title Barnard Interactive History Dept/Division Archives Description Includes timelines chronicling the development of the college, images of campus buildings (1888-1989), documents relating to campus construction, and capsule biographies of select administrators and faculty.

Title A Century in the Life of Barnard in Photographs Dept/Division Archives Description Images of 19th- and 20th-century classroom and extracurricular activities, administrators, and speakers Margaret Mead and Malcolm X.

Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
Title Neighbors: The People of Erie County Description A brief introduction to the ethnic communities that dot the Buffalo area. The virtual exhibit that complement installations at the site.

Title Bflo. Made! Description Provides a brief overview of some of the more than 700 successful products that were invented and produced in Buffalo.

Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Title "I Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America Description Photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, and published material documenting the abolitionist movement. Among the New Yorkers profiled: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Samuel J. May, Solomon Northup, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, and Sojourner Truth.

Title Invention & Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a Nineteenth-Century Life Dept/Division Cornell Institute for Digital Collections Description Telegraph pioneer, agricultural innovator, and state legislator, Cornell was also the founder of Cornell University.

Farmingdale State College
Title Student Life at Farmingdale Dept/Division Archives Description Chronicles the history of student life on the campus throughout its 90-year history. Includes excerpts from yearbooks and other student publications, photographs of male and female students, and information about changes in the colleges mission and size. Arranged by decade.

Title College Presidents Dept/Division Archives Description Briefly chronicles the lives and work of the college's seven presidents.

Title New York State Egg Laying Contest Dept/Division Archives Description Chronicles the history of the New York State Egg Laying Contest at the Farmingdale campus from 1920 until the 1950s.

Title Campus Buildings-Past, Present, and Future Dept/Division Archives Description Campus Buildings-Past, Present, and Future Photographs of and information about many of the academic and agricultural buildings on the Farmingdale campus, including several that are no longer standing.

Title 90 Years of Technology at Farmingdale: A Pictorial History Dept/Division Archives Description Chronicles the study of technology at the college from the schools founding as an agricultural institution to the present day, when it offers courses in materials testing, video production, engineering technology, and other subjects. Includes 1944 images of female workers learning how to assemble military aircraft.

Hofstra University Archives
Title Hofstra's Own Tuskegee Airman Description Overview of the life of Charles Dryden, an African-American man from New York City who enrolled in the Tuskegee Institute's military aviation program during the Second World War. After serving in the Second World War and the Korean War, Dryden attended Hofstra University. Note: this exhibit is a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Title The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Dept/Division Cornell University Description This website includes digital images and primary documents that trace the events and aftermath of New York State's best-known industrial disaster.

Miscellaneous Resources
Title Child Labor in America 1908-1912: The Photographs of Louis W. Hine Description Consists of images of child laborers and the text of Hine's original notes about each photograph. Images of New York City children include: a bootblack, a hat carrier, garment-industry homeworkers, nutpickers, and applicants seeking work permits. One photograph depicts Albany newspaper boys gambling in an alley.

Morrisville State College
Title Morrisville State College History & Images Dept/Division Library Description Images and information about the college's presidents and development of the campus. Also includes images of Franklin Delano Roosevelt visiting the campus and students playing football.

Museum of the City of New York
Title New York on the Rise: Architectural Renderings of Hughson Hawley Description Reproductions of the drawings and paintings of Hawley, who could study architectural drawings and project the appearance of the finished construction. Hawley's work played a pivotal role in informing New Yorkers what their city would look like and garnering their support for mammoth construction projects.

Title The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation Description Images, documents, and text chronicling how the City of New York came to include not only Manhattan but the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Also provides a timeline of significant developments in settlement, incorporation, and consolidation.

Title The Astor Place Riot: Looking Back 150 Years Description Images and text detailing a deadly 1849 riot started by working-class New Yorkers determined to keep a controversial British actor from performing on an American stage.

Title Gotham Comes of Age: New York Through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1842-1942 Description More than a hundred images of buildings, street scenes, entertainment, sporting events, ships, people at work, and children at play.

Title Berenice Abbott's Changing New York Description More than three hundred images of New York City structures and street scenes taken by preeminent photographer Abbott between 1935-39.

Title New York Before the War: The Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project Description More than a thousand images of New York City life in the 1930s, including Jewish Sabbath observances, African-Americans in Harlem, subway construction, the shipping, processing, and sale of food, adults and children at the Coney Island amusement park, work in the garment industry and on loading docks, and street scenes

New York City Fire Museum
Title The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Turning Point in Fire Prevention Description This online exhibit features photographs from the collection of the New York City Fire Museum depicting scenes and accounts from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

New York Public Library - The Research Libraries
Title A Hudson River Portfolio Dept/Division Digital Library Collection Description Maps, images, and writings documenting the development of transportation and commerce along the river and depictions of the river in literature and visual art. Includes a geographic index of images presented within the collection

New York Public Library, The
Title Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection Description This exhibit consists of stereoscopic views of New York City and communities in New York State, New Jersey, and Connecticut produced 1850-1910.

New York State Museum
Title A Mohawk Iroquois Village: An Exhibit at the New York State Museum Description Three dioramas depict life in a Mohawk Iroquois village about 1600, before European influence greatly changed Iroquois culture. This exhibit presents scenes from these dioramas and explanatory text on Iroquois longhouses, village life and agriculture

New York Times Company
Title Stop the Presses: Behind the Brass Door Description A New York Times-created exhibit detailing the composition and printing processes used in producing the paper from its beginnings to the present day.

New York University
Title Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle Dept/Division Robert F Wagner Archives Description This exhibit traces the JLC's efforts to combat Nazism, which ranged from public agitation during the 1930s to rescue efforts and financial contributions to the anti-Nazi underground during the 1940s. The exhibit also highlights the group's postwar sponsorship of adoption programs for Jewish war orphans and support for legislation allowing war refugees to immigrate to the United States.

Title Sam Reiss: An Eyewitness to Labor History, 1948-1975 Description Web exhibit featuring the photographs of photographer Sam Reiss. Reiss used his camera to capture historic events that shaped American labor. Most of his work records the day-to-day building of the labor movement in New York City.

New-York Historical Society
Title Before Central Park: the Life and Deat h of Seneca Village Description Chronicles life in Seneca Village, a multi-ethnic community razed in the 1850s to make way for Central Park, furnishes information about New York City's nineteenth-century African American inhabitants, and furnishes an overview of the development of Central Park. Designed for middle and secondary school users, the exhibit also includes middle-school student projects and age-appropriate supplementary reading lists.

Out of State Resources
Title The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 Dept/Division Library of Congress Description Forty-five short films showing immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, construction of a skyscraper, fire-fighting equipment, subway and elevated railroad operation, parades, shopping, and other facets of life in Progressive-era New York City.

Title New York Underground Dept/Division PBS Description A companion exhibit to the PBS American Experience show "New York Underground," which chronicles the development of the New York City subway system.

Oyster Bay Historical Society
Title Transcriptions Description Transcriptions of land claims, deeds, letters, wills, genealogies, and other documents relating to the history of Oyster Bay.

People, Inc. of Erie County
Title The Birth of Newborn Screening Dept/Division Museum of Disability History Description Emphasizes the work of Robert Guthrie, a buffalo physician who developed a test to detect PKU, a metabolic disorder that can cause mental retardation if left untreated.

Private Resources
Title The Erie Canal Description This website includes photographs and postcards from local collections and the Smithsonian about the Erie Canal.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Archives
Title Amos Eaton Exhibit Description Records and artifacts documenting RPI founder Eaton's work as a natural scientist and educator, friendship with Emma Willard, and family life.

Title Symbols of Rennselaer Description Exhibit documenting the history of the official seals of RPI and flags, team mascots, and other symbols associated with the school.

Title Women of Rensselaer Description Documents the gradual transition of RPI from an all-male school to a coeducational institution; covers RPI founder Amos Eatons support for women's education, RPI's first female students (1942), and the postwar integration of women into RPI's student body and faculty.

Title Online exhibits Description RPI has a number of online exhibits which incorporate the use of photographs and documents.

Title The Williamsburg Bridge: Alumni Ingenuity Description Documents the involvement of RPI alumni in designing and constructing the Williamsburg Bridge. Includes photographs of the bridge at various stages of completion and of RPI alumni who helped to build it, design notes for the cable used in the bridge, and an invitation to the opening ceremony (1903).

Title Rensselaer History Description An array of material relating to RPI's history: a 1767 map of the area on which the campus was built; founding documents, catalogs, and program notices (1824-1834); biographies of RPI presidents and academic heads (1824-present); material ocumenting student traditions (1865-present); campus buildings (1824-1990); and RPI Alumni Hall of Fame inductees.

Title The Approach Description Documents the history of The Approach, a massive granite staircase built to connect RPI to the city of Troy.

Rochester Institute of Technology - Wallace Library
Title RIT Archives Photography Collection Description Images documenting academic life and student activities at RIT, ca. 1900-present.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Title The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Legacy for the 21st Century Description Chronicles the development of the Schomburg Center from 1938 until the present day, emphasizing the institution's unique role and collections.

Title Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community Description Contains images of and excerpts from primary texts by and about African Americans who lived in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Biographical sketches of artists, writers, business leaders, athletes, and activists predominate. Also includes a guide for teachers.

Skidmore College, Scribner Library
Title The First Hundred Years: A Pictorial History of Skidmore College Dept/Division Special Collections Description Documents the evolution of Skidmore College from the Young Womens Industrial Club (founded 1903) to a coeducational liberal arts college.

Title Educated to Serve: Skidmore College Department of Nursing, 1922-1985 Dept/Division Department of Special Collections, Lucy Scribner Library Description The college arranged the records of its Department of Nursing (1919-85) and produced a finding aid and MARC cataloging descriptions. It also created a Web exhibit featuring images and documents drawn from the records.

Southeast Museum
Title The Croton Water System Description Discusses the construction of the system, which supplies water to New York City, and its impact upon the landscape and local economies of Putnam and Westchester counties.

Title Iron Mining in Southeast Dept/Division Southeast Museum Description Discusses the development, economic impact, and decline of the Tilly Foster iron mine, which was located close to the Village of Brewster. Includes images of mine facilities and workers.

Title Borden's Milk Factory Dept/Division Souteast Museum Description Discusses the impact of Gail Borden's milk-condensed process and production facility on the local economy and factory's decline as a reservoir construction reduced the number of dairy farms in the area. Also contains several recipes published by Borden's in the early twentieth century.

Title All Aboard to Brewster Description A narrative of the development of the rail system linking Brewster to New York City and changes in commuter rail travel from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

Title Brewster Railroad History Dept/Division Southeast Museum Description Traces the rise of railroads and their impact upon the community.

Title From Petticoats to Prohibition: Women's Lives Through Fashion, 1880-1930 Description Traces changes in women's fashion and related developments such as the invention of the sewing machine, the rise of Butterick and other pattern companies, the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and the women's suffrage movement.

Title Tops, Blocks, Slates, and Smocks: Children's Lives, 1900-1940 Description Details the rise of mass-produced toys, the impact of the sewing machine and paper patterns on children's clothes, and the evolution of schooling in the Brewster, N.Y., area.

State University College at New Paltz
Title A Rephotographic Tour of Campus from the 1950s to the Present Dept/Division Sojourner Truth Library Description Exhibit contrasting photographs of campus buildings taken in the 1950s and 1960s with images of the same facilities created in 1999.

Syracuse University Archives
Title "Remembering the GI Bulge": Honoring Students who Attended S.U. Under the GI Bill Description An exhibit honoring those students who attended Syracuse University with the assistance of the "GI Bill".

Syracuse University Library
Title Erie Railroad Stations and Related Activities: A Collection of 8x10 Glass Plate Negatives ca. 1909 Dept/Division Department of Special Collections Description Reproductions of more than seven hundred images of Erie Railroad stations, tracks and track work, and workers social organizations in New York State, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Title Hoist Up the Flag for Abraham : Lincoln's 1864 Presidential Campaign Description Web exhibit highlighting the 1864 Presidential Campaign of Abraham Lincoln. This exhibit features songs from an Abraham Lincoln Songster circulated during the 1864 presidential campaign

Title Street & Smith's Preservation and Access Project Description This exhibit chronicles efforts to preserve and make accessible the nineteenth- and twentieth-century records of the Street & Smith Publishing Company, which produced "dime novels" for children and adults.

Teachers College Library
Title Teachers College and Modern Chinese Education: A Photographic Exhibition Dept/Division Special Collections Description Documents the colleges U.S.-Chinese exchange program for educators, 1910-1940. Includes photographs of Teachers College faculty, Chinese teachers, members of the Rockefeller family, and others involved in the program.

Title A Tribute to Grace Dodge Dept/Division Special Collections Description Chronicles the life of Dodge, founder of Teachers College and noted Progressive Era reformer and the development of Teachers College, Also includes images of the campus building dedicated to Dodge's memory and information about the Dodge family's ongoing support for Teachers College.

Ulster County
Title Duty and Disaster: Records Management and the Burning of Kingston Dept/Division Ulster County Archives Description A sampler of English Colonial documents saved from the burning of Kingston in 1777. Includes digitized images, transcriptions and some interpretive text relating to the documents.

University at Albany, University Libraries
Title Documenting Labor Inside and Out Dept/Division Special Collection and Archives Description This exhibit features the labor-related collections held in the Archives of Public Affairs and Policy and shows the wide array of records that labor organizations generate and the types of information that those records provide.

Title Elements of Design and Illustration Dept/Division M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives Description Using over 30 images from the Miriam Snow Mathes Historical Childrens Literature Collection, the exhibit highlights design and illustrations used in children's literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Illustrations convey the range of artistic styles and media inherent in antique children's books.

University at Buffalo
Title Sesquicentennial Exhibit Dept/Division University Archives Description Transcribed archival material documenting the founding of the university in 1846, with particular emphasis upon the university's medical school (established 1849).

Title E. B. Green and UB's Main Street Campus Dept/Division University Archives Description Focuses on the plan and construction of the University at Buffalo's Main Street campus, which was designed in 1930 by E.B. Green. Includes artists' renderings, aerial photographs, and photographs of individual buildings.

Title Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901 Dept/Division University Libraries Description Group of exhibits concerning many facets of the Pan-American Exposition, including: art exhibitions, musical performances, food and drink providers, medical and sanitary facilities, development of electric power in the Buffalo area and its use at the Exposition, involvement of the University and Buffalo's immigrant communities in the Exposition, and the assassination of President William McKinley.

Title June in Buffalo 25th Anniversary Exhibit Dept/Division Music Library Description Chronicles the history of the June in Buffalo festival of contemporary music. Includes images of composers such as Philip Glass and John Cage and excerpts from manuscript scores of several works introduced at the festival.

Title Graycliff - The Isabelle R. Martin House: A Virtual Tour Dept/Division University Archives Description Photographs documenting the construction and architectural features of Graycliff, the Derby, N.Y. home Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Isabelle R. and Darwin D. Martin.

Title Student Life at UB Dept/Division University Archives Description Explore a brief history of Student Life at UB during the 20th century. This online multi-media exhibit includes pages on University songs, dorm life, the Unions, Greek life, student activities, and traditional events and dances.

Title Remembering Leo Smit (1921-1999) Dept/Division Music Library Description Chronicles the life and work of noted composer and music educator Smit, who taught at the university and led the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra. Also details his friendships with Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Buffalo jazz pianist Pete Johnson.

University of Rochester
Title Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement Dept/Division University of Rochester Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Description This exhibit furnishes biographical information about images of, and excerpts from the writing of women's rights activists in Central and Western New York. It also details their involvement in abolitionism, temperance, and other social movements.

Yorktown Historical Society
Title Archival Holdings Description Online transcriptions of letters, census records (1880), oral history interviews (ca. 1970), listings of fire prevention committee members (ca.1930) and female voters (1918). Online photograph collections documenting the history of Yorktown and surrounding communities, and reproductions of published material concerning local history. Select Archives to obtain access to these resources.