Finding Aids A-Z
These research tools are available to help discover the archives and special collections at OCPL. Below you'll find the A-Z list of all of our Finding Aids. You may also use the Finding Aids Category Index to further assist your research.
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- American Humane Association 'Be Kind to Animals' Poster Collection, Syracuse, NY
- Autograph Manuscript Collection
- Bell's British Theatre
- Bible Records Collected by the Genealogy and Local History Department of the Syracuse Public Library
- Bookplate Collection of the Syracuse Public Library, Syracuse, N.Y.
- Carlton O. Miller Jr. Photographs, Syracuse, NY Collection
- Central New York SPCA Collection
- Chapman Family of New York and Allied Families
- Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum Field Books
- Civil War Letters and Journal of Charles F. Weller
- Clemons Family of New York and Allied Families
- Dear Family Documents
- Family Bible Records collected by the General Asa Danforth Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Syracuse, N.Y.
- First Presbyterian Church United of Syracuse, N.Y. Collection
- Frank N. Decker Papers on Early Onondaga County History
- The Frank T. Wood, Jr. and Peggy W. Wood Collection contains correspondence, awards, articles, newspaper clippings and photographs concering the life and work of Frank T. Wood, Jr. and Peggy Wood in Syracuse, NY. from 1950-2011
- Gaylord Family Collection
- A Genealogical Record of the Shepard, Williams, and Cuyler Families of Aurora, N.Y., including an Autobiography Written for His Children in 1847 and 1848
- George G. Cotton Collection of Canal Papers, 1808-1849
- George W. Fenner World War I Photographs, Syracuse, NY Collection
- Interview Collection of Human Rights in Syracuse: A Selected History from 1963-1983
- Ketcham Family Files
- Landmark Theatre Archives
- League of Women Voters of the Syracuse Metropolitan Area Collection
- Leon A. Congdon Family Research Collection
- Lincoln Auditorium, Central High School Programs Collection
- Lovina Powers Correspondence
- Memorial Monuments & Tablets in Syracuse, NY
- Merritt Wesley Barnes Family Photographs
- Mohawk Valley, N.Y. Genealogy and History Newspaper Clippings Collection
- New York State Board of Charities
- New York State Comptroller's Office Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates
- New York State Rural Farm Registers, 1936-1940
- Onondaga County Civil War Roundtable Archives
- Onondaga County Pioneer Index
- Onondaga County Public Library Beauchamp Branch Photodocumentation Project
- Onondaga County, NY County Clerk Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1847-1849 and other Early Miscellaneous Onondaga County Records
- Onondaga Historical Association Local History Leaflets, 1896-1904
- Pamphlets of Syracuse native Williard Rouse Jillson, 1918-1961
- Papers Pertaining to the Purity Ice Supply in Syracuse, N.Y.
- Parish Register, Christ Church, Jordan, New York
- Peace Newsletters
- Postcards of Syracuse and Central New York
- Quilt Patterns of Onondaga County, 1919 - 1923
- Religious Census, Syracuse, NY, 1911
- Reverend William H. Giles, Methodist-Episcopal Records, including Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, New York State, 1879-1913
- Richard G. Sheeran Collection of Early Onondaga County and Syracuse Manuscripts
- Sawyer Family Research
- Schramm Autographed Cachet Collection
- Sedgwick Hazard Library Club Papers
- Slavery in the United States Pamphlet Collection, 1836-1932
- Smith Family Letters
- South Presbyterian Church of Syracuse, N.Y. Collection
- Syracuse Central High School (Central Tech) Collection
- Syracuse Gay Rights Activism- 1968-1993
- Syracuse, N.Y. Armory Records
- Syracuse Public Library Archives
- Tennant-Younglove-Wooden and Allied Families
- Urban League Collection
- War on Poverty, Syracuse, NY, 1964 - 1972
- Weather Bureau Records
- WFBL Radio Programs, Syracuse, New York, 1961-1962
- Women’s Suffrage Pamphlets
- World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters, Syracuse, NY Collection
- Works Progress Administration (WPA) Files
- Zelda Stockham World War II V-Mail Collection, 1943-45
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