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