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New York Western House of Refuge 1876- 1960

Scanned inmate lists. The Western House of Refuge was a prison for children in Rochester, NY founded in the mid-1800's that was the first state managed reformatory in the United States. In the 1880's, the prison was changed into a vocational school known as the State Industrial School. In the early 1900's, the school would move to Industry, NY, where it now operates as the Industry Residential Center.

Monroe County

·fultonhistory.com·Nov 9, 2025

New York Western House of Refuge 1876- 1960

Buffalo (New York) Death Index

This collection holds images of the entire Buffalo, New York death index from 1852-1944. These files were obtained by the non-profit group Reclaim The Records using the New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).

Erie County #Deaths #Vital Records #InternetArchive

·archive.org·Nov 9, 2025

Buffalo (New York) Death Index

Digitizing Rochester’s Religions – A Public History Project

Details more than 150 years of religious history in Rochester’s southwestern neighborhoods, providing historical and ethnographic essays, documents from community archives, home movies, interactive maps, and classroom materials.

Monroe County #Religious Records

·digrocreligions.org·Nov 7, 2025

Digitizing Rochester’s Religions – A Public History Project

Steuben County Historical Society | NY

Steuben County #Historical Societies

·schsny.org·Nov 4, 2025

Steuben County Historical Society | NY

Mapping Historical New York

A Digital Atlas visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns shaped the city.

NYC #Maps #Tools & Resources

·mappinghny.com·Nov 4, 2025

Mapping Historical New York

The Grape Belt Archive | Chautauqua County, NY

Digital records compiled and curated by John Thomas Slater over the course of 20 years of his research into the vast and important history of agriculture, especially grapes, wine, and spirits, in Chautauqua County and beyond.

Chautauqua County #Digital Archives #Omeka #Occupations

·barkerarchive.cclsny.org·Oct 26, 2025

The Grape Belt Archive | Chautauqua County, NY

Portville History | Cattaraugus County, NY

Cattaraugus County #Personal Websites #Local History #Photographs

·pcs1979.com·Oct 26, 2025

Portville History | Cattaraugus County, NY

Portville Historical & Preservation Society

History of Portville, Cattaraugus County, N. Y. Founded in 1837 from Olean. Portville Historical & Preservation Society

Cattaraugus County #Historical Societies #Local History

·portvillehistory.org·Oct 26, 2025

Portville Historical & Preservation Society

Riverside Church Archive

The Riverside Church is an interdenominational, interracial, international, open, welcoming, and affirming church and congregation. Users can explore the collections through interactive finding aids and descriptive catalog records, access and download digitized and born-digital objects, and view curated digital galleries and timelines. Over 4,000 digitized audio files from WRVR-FM (Riverside Radio) are also available for streaming on the site.

NYC #Religious Records #Digital Archives

·riverside.whirlihost.com·Oct 20, 2025

Riverside Church Archive

NYC Municipal Archives Digital Collections

More than 2,300,000 items from the Municipal Archives’ vast holdings of historical records, including photographs, maps, blueprints, motion-pictures and audio recordings.

NYC #Digital Archives

·nycrecords.access.preservica.com·Oct 20, 2025

NYC Municipal Archives Digital Collections

Digital Archives of the Roeliff Jansen Community Library | Columbia County, NY

Newspapers titles available: Independent (1987-1995), Roe Jan Independent (1973-1987), Hillsdale Harbinger (1887-1943), Columbia County Independent (1992-1993), Hillsdale Herald (1880-1887)

Columbia County #Newspapers

·copake.advantage-preservation.com·Oct 20, 2025

Digital Archives of the Roeliff Jansen Community Library | Columbia County, NY

Preservation Long Island

NYC

·preservationlongisland.historyit.com·Oct 15, 2025

Preservation Long Island

DCMNY Digital Collections

Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York (DCMNY) provides online access to digital collections that document the history of the Metropolitan New York region. The collections include photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs from events, catalogues, memorabilia and ephemera, and more. New collections are being added on an ongoing basis, and contributors are also adding new material to existing collections.

NYC #Digital Archives

·dcmny.org·Oct 15, 2025

DCMNY Digital Collections

Columbia University Library Digital Collections

Tons of digitized collections from their archives.

Manhattan #Libraries #Digital Archives

·dlc.library.columbia.edu·Oct 2, 2025

Columbia University Library Digital Collections

Digital Long Island | NY

Small collection

Queens #Digital Archives

·digitallongisland.org·Oct 1, 2025

Digital Long Island | NY

Woodside in Photos

Queens #Rootsweb #Personal Websites #Photographs

·freepages.rootsweb.com·Oct 1, 2025

Woodside in Photos

Oakwood Cemetery Association | Nunda, Livingston County, NY

Records of plot owners, submitted family memories, and more!

Livingston County #Cemetery Records #Personal Websites #Historical Societies

·nundaoakwoodcemetery.org·Sep 30, 2025

Oakwood Cemetery Association | Nunda, Livingston County, NY

Bayside Historical Society

Primary source material, artifacts, real and personal property of historical interest, records, material and ephemera which document the continuing growth, development and activities of the communities in Northeast Queens.

Queens #Historical Societies #Omeka #Photographs #Maps #Local History

·baysidehistoricalsociety.omeka.net·Sep 21, 2025

Bayside Historical Society