Local History

The Cayuga Community College Library continues to develop special collections of research materials about the people, places, and events in Cayuga and Oswego Counties and upstate New York. The collection contains books, media, and microfilm. All catalogued local history items can be found in CAYLIB, the library catalog; limit by collection codes for Local History.

Features: Auburn Campus Collection

• Local Newspapers on Microfilm
  
  • Auburn Advertiser-Journal – September 1915- May 1931
  • Auburn Citizen – 1975- present
  • Auburn Citizen-Advertiser – 1963-1975
  • Auburn Daily Advertiser – September 15, 1846- December 1913
  • Auburn Daily American – February 1, 1855-June 18, 1859
  • Auburn Daily Bulletin – February 16, 1870-September 30, 1905
  • Auburn Daily Union – June 21, 1859-March 7, 1861
  • Auburn Evening Auburnian – January 2, 1878-January 2, 1885
  • Auburn Morning News –  July 16, 1872-May 14, 1879
  • Auburn Northern Christian Advocate – April 2, 1845-December 31, 1856
  • Auburn Press – December 28, 1939-December 1941
  • Auburn Semi Weekly – January 2, 1906-June 29, 1906; January 1, 1907-December 29, 1908; June 3, 1910-June 29, 1913
  • Auburn Weekly Bulletin – January 3, 1895-December 30, 1897; January 2, 1900-December 30, 1913
  • Auburn Weekly News and Democrat – August 12, 1872- December 29, 1897
  • Union Springs Advertiser – January 30, 1879 – July 30, 1942

• Census Information
  • U.S. Federal census records for many upstate New York counties including Broome, Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Ontario, Oswego, Seneca, Tompkins, Wayne, Yates, and others.
  • Microfilm for these counties is available for 1790,1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.
  • New York State Census Indexes are available for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850.

• Special Subject Collections
  • Harriet Tubman, former slave, Underground Railroad “conductor,” home in Auburn. Books, children’s books, videos.
  • Haudenosaunee/Iroquois confederacy. General books, children’s books.
  • M. E. Kerr (Marijane Meaker), award-winning author, noted for young adult books, born in Auburn. Novels and bio-critical books.
  • Upstate county, town, church and village histories from Adirondack to Yates. General books. (Search CAYLIB, the library catalog for specific holdings.)
  • William H. Seward, governor of New York, Lincoln’s Secretary of State and resident of Auburn. Books, microfilm (The Papers of William H. Seward), videos.   

• Auburn Imprints  
  • Special collection of books published or printed in Auburn, mainly between 1851-1876.

• Ormie King’s “Legends of Auburn” Collection
  • Local collector and newspaper columnist maintains thousands of photographs, clippings and memorabilia highlighting people, places, and events in recent Auburn history.

Features: Fulton Campus Collection

• Special Subject Collections
  • Fulton, Oswego and Oswego County
  • Lake Ontario

For additional information about the library’s local history resources, please contact the Library Director.