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News from SCRLC
Ask the Archivist
Learn about ESLN's newest service, Ask the Archivist, on October 28 at 10 am. Heidi Ziemer from WNYLRC, Susan D'Entremont from CDLC, and Nichole Menchise from LILRC will talk about the service.
New Collection: Robert Bellamy Collection
This collection from the Chenango County Historical Society was funded with Consider the Source money, available because it represents the historically underrepresented. Robert Bellamy was born in 1911 in Norwich. The Bellamy family was a prominent African American family in Chenango County.
New Collection: Isabel Howland Collection
Seymour Library worked with the Howland Stone Store Museum (which has worked with Wells College in the past) as part of their ARPA-funded project to digitize materials of Cayuga County. Isabel Howland (1859-1942) was a woman’s rights activist who worked closely with Harriet May Mills, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Eliza Wright Osborne, and Carrie Chapman Catt.
New Collection: Irene Fay Photograph Collection
This collection comes from the Fenimore Art Museum. Irene Fay (1914-1986) was born in Poland (then part of Russia) and spent her formative years in Warsaw. For graduation, she was given a Rolleiflex camera which began her love-affair with photography that endured nearly half a century. These 137 prints are from the New Kingston area of New York from the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.
New Members
I've gotten so wrapped up in digitization that I forgot to introduce our new members! This year, with help from a few grants, the SCRLC membership has dramatically expanded. In the last 12 months, we've been joined by the Allegany County Historical Society, Cayuga Museum of History & Art, Chenango County Historical Society & Museum, Dryden Town Historical Society, Edmeston Museum, Interlaken Public Library, Steuben County Historical Society, Swart-Wilcox House Museum, and the Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Resource Center. Welcome all, and I can't wait to see your new digital collections!
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