Collections List
St. Lawrence County Early Land Records Collection
This collection contains letters, maps deeds and other documents describing land speculation, purchases and other transactions in parts of St. Lawrence County prior to 1815.
St. Lawrence County Town Clerk Vital Statistics Records 1847-1850
Lists of births, deaths and marriages recorded in the Town Clerk's offices of all 25 St. Lawrence County towns then organized between the years of 1847 and 1850.
St. Lawrence Figure Skating Club Collection
This collection consists of correspondence, financial statements, minutes of meetings, rules and regulations of the club, its constitution and by-laws. Also included are photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs of the club's annual ice shows.
St. Lawrence Seaway Collection
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.
St. Lawrence University Images
This digital collection consists of 100+ images selected from the campus photographs housed in the University’s Archives. The originals are from the 1860’s to present.
Stage Door Canteen
Stage Door Canteen collection consists of a 23 page lecture on its history, 35 photocopies of pictures, and 35 photographs.
Steinman Vietnam Veteran Poetry Collection
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 The collection consists mostly of unpublished poem manuscripts written by people who served in the armed forces during the Vietnam War.
Stereoscopic Views of a moose hunt
The collection consists of eight stereoscopic photo cards depicting activities related to a moose hunt by members of the Oh You! Scraggy Club in 1910.
Stillwater Club Records
The Stillwater Club, an Adirondack hunting club, occupies 14,600 acres on the North and Middle Branch of the Grass River in the town of Clare, St. Lawrence County. This collection has mainly two types of materials: photographs and notebooks.
Stop the Olympic Prison (S.T.O.P.) Collection
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
state and federal politicians, as well as posters, brochures and fliers, and a transcript of a civil lawsuit filed by the
USOC against STOP. The collection is organized chronologically by type of material.
Sudds Family Photographs
Photos show family portraits, interiors and street scenes in Gouverneur, N.Y. as well as river scenes in Chippewa Bay, N.Y. May also include Todd family photographs.
Sunderland Family Civil War Correspondence
This collection consists of 65 letters (64 originals and one photocopy), transcriptions of letters, 9 envelopes, photocopies of national archives records and research papers on both Darwin and John Sunderland prepared by St. Lawrence University students.
Sunderland Family Correspondence
Letters describe camp life, battles, hospitals, and medical care during the Civil War.
The Hill News
A digital archive of the "Hill News", St. Lawrence University's student newspaper, is now available for editions published between 1911-2008. The entire archive is fully indexed and searchable.
Thomas John Carlisle Papers
The collection consists of approximately 800 poems, 29 letters and 2 pieces of sheet music. The poems are typewritten and many contain references to biblical verses. The correspondence consists of letters to and from publishers about his books.
Thomas Purves Collection
The collection consists of two manuscript notebooks written by Purves donated to St. Lawrence University in 1989 by Allegra Fourtanati (relative of Purves) of California. The first notebook is an account of Purves and his family's journey from Scotland to America in 1819. The second book is entitled "A Shorthand Dictionary Consisting of Invented Characters for Words and Sentences." Also included is a newspaper article about the notebooks.
Thousand Islands Collection
This collection contains photo booklets of the Islands and the St. Lawrence River, newspapers, index to summer cottages in the late 18th century, and an engraved plate for making money from the Sackets Harbor Bank.
Tintype of Native American
A tintype photograph of a Native American in traditional dress about 1870.
Town of Colton Collection
This collection consists of an assessment roll for 1868, voting registers of general elections, a 1919 Ballot, mortgages, and receipts of paid bills.
Twentieth Century Paperbacks Collection
This collection consists of 220 paperbacks, published between 1929 and 1978. They represent 19 publishing houses, most notably Pocket Books. The cover art represents the work of a score of anonymous illustrators. The heft, feel, smell, and aura of the books embodies the iconic place these everyday objects have in libraries and people’s lives.
U.S. Presidential Inauguration Memorabilia
The United States Presidential Inauguration collection was donated to St. Lawrence University by J. Harold Launders, class of 1932. Mr. Launders was a member of the Inaugural Committee for several years during which time he collected the materials.
Ulysses S. Milburn Collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne
This collection consists of letters written by Hawthorne dating between 1837 and 1863, and letters written by family members. The collection also includes manuscripts by Hawthorne, members of his family, and historical documents.
Ulysses S. Milburn Illustrated Lecture Photograph Collection
The majority of items in this collection consist of hand-colored photo glass slides, glass slide negatives and gel negatives of scenery, buildings and people in England, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland and other European countries; Mexico, Central and South America, and Africa.
Universalism Collection
The collection consists of booklets, magazines, pamphlets, photographs, sermons, and clippings all relating to the Universalist churches throughout the United States and written by Universalist clergy.
Van de Water Family Postcard Collection
This collection consists of approximately 600 vintage and a few contemporary post cards of locations, destinations and points of interest around the Cranberry Lake area.
Van Horne St. Lawrence County Postcards Collection
The collection consists of approximately 450 photographic postcards and lithograph images dating from before the turn of the 20th century to the 1960's.
Vietnam War-era Photographs
Photographs by American G.I.s and nurses depicting battlefields, soldiers, prisoners, and villages and city life in Vietnam, as well as protests and peace marches in the United States.
W.F. Willson & Co. Business Ledgers
This collection consists of five bound volumes: four account books and an index from W.F. Willson & Co., Dealers in General Merchandise, located in Massena.
Wal-Gene Camps Collection
Collection consists of a guest register, photograph album, photographs and post cards of the camp, unidentified guests, fish and lake.
War of 1812 Pamphlet Collection
This collection consists primarily of contemporary pamphlets and newspapers published during the War of 1812. Also contained in the collection is an Orderly Book pertaining to the Battle of Plattsburgh.
Watson Berry Papers
This collection consists of correspondence, railroad ephemera, and photographs of logging in the North Country. Also included are pamphlets on the Mohawks, transcriptions of Preston King letters and assorted research material and stories on the North Country written by Berry.
Wells Family United Nations Stamp Collection
The collection consists of sheets of commemorative UN postage stamps issued between 1983 and 2009, First Day Covers (colorful UN-issued envelopes with cancelled stamps) issued between 1969 and 1991, and UN postal cards issued between 1989 and 1996. Also included are commemorative philatelic collection cards from 1972 to 1994.
Wetherell Family Papers
This collection documents the lives of several St. Lawrence County families including the Coltons, Hatchs, and Randalls, and the social and cultural history of the county as well as the ethnic history of the settlers responsible for the westward expansion of the United States.
William B. Goodrich/P.H. Wells Coll.
This collection consists of letters, diaries, business papers, photographs, and memorabilia.
William H. Carr Diary
The collection consists of a diary kept by Carr from January to July 1865 and a student paper by Heather Ford that contains transcriptions of most of the entries.
William H. Davies Papers
The collection consists of 54 letters and a Declaration for Invalid Pension (1890). Correspondence to his family in which he describes his activities in camp & on the Virginia battlefields while serving with the 16th New York Volunteers.
William H. Rasbeck Collection
This collection consists of 28 diaries of William Rasbeck, one for each year from 1887 through 1916. The diary entries most concern the weather for each day and the routine happenings and chores of the day.
William L. Fox, Jr. Papers
William L. Fox, Jr. was the 18th President of St. Lawrence University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Lawrence University (1975), a Master of Divinity from Harvard University (1978), and a Ph.D from George Washington University (1989). He served as President of St. Lawrence University from 2009-2021, the President of Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri, 2003-2009, and held a number of roles at Goucher College between 1999-2003. He also held ministerial positions at the Pilgrim Congregation Church in Pomona, California, Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington D.C., and Theodore Parker Unitarian Church in Boston. He published numerous books and articles on topics related to American Higher Education, religious thought, and Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
William Rose Benet Collection
The collection consists of galley proofs for books of poetry by various authors (Frances Frost, Howard Griffin, Alfred Noyes, Edith Sitwell and Stephen Spender).
Women Together
This collection contains records of Women Together: The Journal of North Country Women.
Our Manuscript collection is comprised of 221 distinct collections, comprising nearly 1800 linear feet of material. Each of these collections is described in brief on records in the SLU Libraries’ online catalog. Additionally, our manuscript collections have detailed finding aids, which are available on this page and through our catalogs If you find you have questions about the collections after you have read the catalog entries or finding aids, please contact us.
Paul Doty, Interim Librarian for Special Collections & University Archives Voice: (315) 229-5483 e-mail: pdoty@stlawu.edu