E-mail this pageSpecial 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 Family Papers
- Alexander Macomb Letters
- Altona Central School Oral History Project
- Asa Adgate Family Papers
- Asa and Joseph Sawyer Family Letters
- Albert Andrus Collection
- George M. Beckwith Papers
- Broadwell Papers
- Charles Barber Collection
- Chilion S. Trimble Papers
- Clinton County Land Papers
- Collins Family Papers
- D. Whitney Adgate Papers
- Deming-Putnam-Hale Collection
- Dr. David Sherwood Kellogg Collection
- Edwin N. Cotter, Jr. John Brown Collection
- Felton Collection
- Freligh Family Papers
- George Stevenson Papers
- Grant Papers
- Havens Civil War Letters
- The Hiram Walworth Collection on Alexander H. Grant, Joseph giraud, and Zephaniah C. Platt
- Hopkins-Stearns Papers
- Howell Collection
- James Dean Letters
- Judaic Studies Collection
- Keese Family Letters
- The Larkin Collection
- The Lobdell Collection
- Lucas Broder Collection
- The Mary Dorothy Langdon Commando Letters
- Penfield Collection
- Plattsburgh Republican Index
- Rogers Collection
- Ross Family Letters
- Society of the Second War
- Sperry Papers
- Stetson-Thew Papers
- Stowell Papers
- Tormey Papers
- Tremblay Collection
- Weed-Standish Collection
- West Bangor Collection
- Windsor Hotel Collection
Contact Information
For more information about the Special Collections at SUNY Plattsburgh, please contact:
Debra Kimok
E-mail (for best results): debra.kimok@plattsburgh.edu
(518) 564-5206