Historical Records

Brief Index to Historical Records at the Hart Cluett Museum - these sources are not digitized and are only available to view on-site.

Primary Sources | 19th & 20th Centuries

  • Diaries

  • Letters

  • Scrapbooks

  • Business Records

  • Ephemera

Secondary Sources | 19th & 20th Centuries

  • City Directories

  • County Histories

  • Family Histories

  • Labor History

  • Social History

  • Town & Village Histories

Maps/Atlases | early 19th century-1990

  • 19th & 20th century maps of town (a printed guide exists to this collection)

  • Sanborn Maps: 1903 - 1914, 1942, 1954

Photographs | 19th-21st century, representing various photographic processes

  • Aerial Views

  • Agriculture

  • Animals

  • Architecture: churches, commercial buildings, monuments, residences, schools, social and civic buildings, street scenes, details

  • Cemeteries

  • Disasters: blizzards, floods, & fires

  • Foreign Locations

  • Group Portraits

  • Individual Portraits

  • Landscapes

  • Objects: Burden Water Wheel, equipment, commercial products, plaques, & trophies

  • Panoramic Views

  • Parades

  • Recreation & Sports

  • Special Events

  • Transportation: air, land, & water

  • Waterways & Bridges

Special Collection Highlights

  • Cluett, Peabody & Co. Papers, Troy, NY

  • Congressman Dean P. Taylor Papers

  • Organizational Papers, e.g. Troy Chromatics, Thursday Morning Club, Troy Day Home, etc.

  • Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing Papers

  • Hart Family Papers (former owners of the Hart-Cluett House)

  • Papers of Rensselaer County Families

  • Cable Flax Mill Papers, Schaghticoke, NY

  • Burden Iron Company Papers, Troy, NY

  • Marshall Mills Papers, Troy, NY