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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

This collection contains records of Women Together: The Journal of North Country Women.

This collection consists of correspondence, prints, books, and some ephemera. The bulk of the correspondence is from RK to his second wife, Frances, which dates mostly from their separation through his death.

This collection documents the activities of Save The River, from its founding in 1978 to present, although some of the earliest years have gaps. The original order of the records is uncertain, reflecting the early evolution of the organization. The collection has been arranged into series in consultation with the current administration of Save The River.

The collection consists of over 13,000 negatives and some prints. The photographs are of businesses, farms, main streets of towns, local colleges and natural phenomena in most towns in St. Lawrence County and a few from the surrounding North Country area in the early to mid twentieth century. Most of the photographs are aerial views.

The 16th New York Infantry regiment consisted of 1247 men from three counties in Northern New York State.  These included companies A, B, F, G, H, and K from St. Lawrence County, C, D, and E from Clinton County, and I from Franklin County. This collection includes correspondence, clippings, records and photographs from the members of the 16th New York Infantry Regiment.

Personal diary kept by unidentified student/teacher in Canton area of St. Lawrence County, N.Y. in 1875.

This collection consists of transcripts and tapes of an oral history project documenting the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. Interviews are mostly with North Country individuals involved with the local organization of the games. Project headed by Jonathan Rossie, SLU History Department.

The collection consists of 136 glass plate negatives taken between 1895-1910 by Jameson of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. The negatives depict families and scenes in the Ogdensburg-Black Lake area.