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Featured Research Topics

These collections represent our most frequently requested records. This list will be updated regularly to reflect changes in researcher interest. You can also search our finding aids to find information on all of our holdings.

Genealogy

Probate & Wills

Will of William Tom, of New Castle 1687

Land Records

View looking northeast across Schoon Lake at the narrows in the Adirondack Mountains. 1912

The Attica Uprising

Constitutions

New York State Constitution of 1821, Article II

Environmental Records

View of the Niagara River at the American Falls in the winter, c. 1900

Birth, Marriage & Death

Naturalization

United States Immigration Station building on Ellis Island. A ferry named "Laura" is docked in front of the building. c. 1900

Film Scripts

Dancing On a Dime (1940) movie scene from Motion Picture Division Collection.

Business Regulation

Buffalo car production line showing a Ford Fairlane 500

Courts

Old State House, Albany, built 1835-1842

Governors

Governor Hugh Carey and running mate Mario Cuomo, June 13 1978

Prisons & Inmates

Sing Sing prison admission record for Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, 1944. Buchalter was the highest-ranking mob boss to be given the death penalty in the United States, and was electrocuted at Sing Sing in 1944.

Military

Military_NYSA_A0412-78_B11_F14_Tennent.jpg

Bill & Veto Jackets

2010, Line Item Vetoes 1221-1270 – Page 6

Colonial Governments

Duke of York's Charter from his brother King Charles II, granting him the colony of New York, 1664.

Dutch Records

Bill of lading for fifty horses loaded at Aruba for New Netherland, May 18 1660

Mental Hospitals

Dunham Hall, Utica Psychiatric Hospital, 1960s