The collection comprises archival materials related to the Urban League of Onondaga County, Inc. It includes minutes, historical newspaper clippings and albums of black-and-white and colored photographs. Some are duplicated on a CD in JPG and TIFF format. The collection is divided into six main series, supplemented by subseries of miscellaneous records. The main subseries are: Annual Reports and Minutes; Legal Documents; Annual Celebrations and Special Events; Publication and Printed Documents; Correspondence and Ephemera Objects and Photographs. Some of the records are not dated and a big percentage of the photographs don’t have any information related to the creator, the event, or the people on the pictures. The records are arranged in chronological order, whenever possible.

Series 1: Annual Reports and Minutes.

This series contains documents related to Urban League of Onondaga County, Inc. These documents include Annual Meetings Minutes of the Board of Directors, President’s reports, Board of Directors Lists, Vice-Chairs List and other documents related to the management of the organization records. Date coverage is from 1976 to 1997. However, not all years are presented.

Series 2: Legal Documents.

This category includes important legal records related to the Urban League of Onondaga County Inc., such as By-Laws, Requirements for Audit Reports and training materials conducted by the National Urban League, Inc., Manual of the Affiliates for the National Urban League, Inc. Under miscellaneous subseries are described varieties of other administrative documents. All of the records are arranged in chronological order, when the date is available. Date coverage is from 1987 to 1996.

Series 3: Annual Celebrations and Special Events

The Annual Celebrations and Special Events series contains a compilation of printed programs for the annual celebrations and special events. These programs have diverse information about the history, offered programs and news of the organization. Each annual program includes a list of the staff, Board of Directors, Annual Reports, Harriet Tubman Award winners, notes for the special guests, speakers and more. There is also a subseries with miscellaneous records of some of the Black History activists. The date coverage is 1984 to 1997.

Series 4: Publications and Printed Materials.

Publications and Printed Materials series includes documents that provide information about the offered programs and services. These include educational books, booklets and fliers. The subseries of Newspaper Clippings contain interviews, organization news and announcements from 1973 to 2002.

Series 5: Correspondence and Ephemera objects.

This series includes three correspondence envelopes and some personal items, such as a two Pins with the symbol of the Urban League (the equal sign in a circle) and a business card. In the correspondence envelopes along with letter notes are enclosed photographs, with descriptive notes and newspaper clippings.

Series 6: Photographs.

This series contains a large number of photographs and one photo CD from different Urban League events. Some of the photographs have description of the persons, the date and the photographer, but most do not. The photographs are organized into five albums housed in polypropylene pockets by size. Many images are missing dates and displaying them in chronological order is not possible. There are also three additional albums: 6, 7 and 8 which are preserved in the original order in photo albums, as they were donated by the Urban League of Onondaga County. The CD contains digitized duplicates of some of the images in JPG and TIFF format. For the convenience and easy access the photographs with a description note were scanned and uploaded to New York Heritage website, where they can be viewed free of charge. Date coverage is from 1978 to 1994, and some are undated.