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
- Champlain College Collection
- Charles Barber Collection
- 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
- Levi Havens Civil War Letters
- The Hiram Walworth Collection on Alexander H. Grant, Joseph Giraud, and Zephaniah C. Platt
- Hopkins-Stearns Papers
- Howell Witherill Hotel and Family Papers
- Hudson Family Papers
- James Dean Letters
- Judaic Studies Collection
- Keese Family Letters
- The Larkin Collection
- The Lobdell Collection
- Lucas Broder Collection
- The Mary Dorothy Langdon Commando Letters
- Paul H. Hartman Collection
- Penfield Collection
- Plattsburgh Feed & Grocery Company Records, 1919-1938
- J. and J. Rogers Company Records
- Ross Family Letters
- Collection on the Society of the Second War with Great Britain in the State of New York
- Sperry Family Papers
- Stetson-Thew Family Papers
- Frank W. Stowell Business Records
- Thew Family Letters
- Michael Tormey-William Hartwell Correspondence
- Torrance Family Letters, Receipts, and Other Material
- Peter Tremblay Business and Personal Papers
- Chilion A. Trimble Correspondence, 1809-1861
- Weed-Standish Collection
- West Bangor Collection
- The Windsor Hotel Records
- John Ellis Wool Papers
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