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The Fred Rollins Post Card Collection consists of over 3000 of St. Lawrence County locales.  The oldest postcards in the collection date to the first years of the twentieth century, and the collection includes postcards published up to 2000. Many of the images are of buildings in the county.  There are also postcards for St. Lawrence County Railroads, and postcards with images of or advertisements for businesses located in St. Lawrence County. The postcards were manufactured by a variety of different companies.

The collection consists of correspondence, poetry manuscripts, and ephemera related to the 1987 St Lawrence University David B. Steinman Festival of the Arts entitled “Art and the Vietnam Experience.” The collection consists mostly of unpublished poem manuscripts written by people who served in the armed forces during the Vietnam War.

The collection consists of drawings, prints, and monographs that are illustrated by British sculptor and engraver Eric Gill. The collection primarily consists of illustrations made for books, with special interest in illustrations done for Golden Cockerel Press books.

Approximately 500 photographic images (mostly glass plate negatives) documenting people and places, mostly in Canton, but also Potsdam, NY, from the 1890’s to the 1940’s.

The Adirondack Collection consists of ephemera, promotional literature, maps, magazines, commercial photo albums, picture books, Seneca Ray Stoddard photographs, and 2 groups of unidentified photographs. Also included are the records of Citizens to Save the Adirondack Park, from 1975-1982.

The St. Lawrence Seaway Collection at St. Lawrence University consists of approximately 1200 items. The whole collection is actually made up of four smaller collections or series, each with its own strengths and unique characteristics. Most of the materials in the overall collection come from the period 1930-1959. One of these series is the papers and documents accumulated by St. Lawrence University. The other three series were donated by individuals with some connection to the St. Lawrence Seaway project.

The Young collection documents five decades of national and international business and political history, including the post World War I reparation period which saw Young as the key figure in the Dawes Plan of 1924 and the Young Plan of 1929 with its provisions for the still existing Bank of International Settlements.

This collection covers two organizations of which Wright was president: the Dairy Farmers’ Union of the 1930’s and the Farmers’ Union of the New York Milkshed of the 1940’s and 1950’s. Also included are personal papers and correspondence of Wright, copies of radio talks which he gave on WSLU, and secondary materials on the milk business. The University owns the literary rights.

The Parish-Rosseel collection, numbering approximately 1600 items, (38 linear feet) includes correspondence, financial papers, legal documents, prints, photos, maps, and memoranda. Covering more than a century, the collection extends from 1807, with the correspondence of the first Parishes and Rosseels in America, to the present, with the correspondence of the living descendents of both of the families. The bulk of the material falls within the period 1807
to 1816.

This collection documents the widespread effort over a two year period (1978-1979) to raise public awareness of and
build opposition to the post-Olympic use of the athletes’ housing as a federal prison. It consists primarily of photocopies of hundreds of newspaper and magazine stories, newsletters, editorials and other material documenting
the opposition to the prison effort. Also included is internal and external correspondence among and between North
Country clergy active in Stop The Olympic Prison (STOP), the New York Moratorium on Prison Construction, and