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Digital collections are locally-produced and curated by Libraries’ staff. Special Collections Research Center materials make up the majority of our digital objects while other collections come from holdings in the Libraries' General Collections and through partnerships with other community members.

 

As we are still migrating materials from their legacy location to this new platform, our collections are not yet centralized. You may browse all migrated collections, search for specific objects using the search box below, or search our legacy platform.

 

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The Plastics Collections

The digitized Plastics Collections at Syracuse University Libraries are comprised of images from our extensive plastics artifacts collection, photographs and drawings from plastics engineer, Edwin F. Bushman, a full run of the Antique Comb Collector's Club Newsletters, and images from the Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) Catalogs.

Syracuse University Glass Plate Negative Collection

The images in this collection cover a wide range of Syracuse University history between the 1890s and the 1950s, including the campus grounds and surrounding area, athletic events, student traditions, and the Students' Army Training Corps of the First World War.

Gerrit Smith Collection

Gerrit Smith (1797-1874) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. Born in Utica, New York, he spent much of his life in nearby Peterboro. The collection includes portraits, correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, broadsides and other publications on such topics as abolition, suffrage, temperance, and land ownership.

Syracuse Insurance Atlases Collection

This collection contains the 1908, 1924, and 1938 Insurance Atlases of Syracuse NY published by G.M. Hopkins and Co. of Philadelphia, PA and the 1892 Insurance Atlas of Syracuse NY by J.W. Vose & Company.