The Civil War collections include materials related to the people and history of Oneida county, in which Hamilton College is located. Most of the items relate to the 117th New York Infantry Regiment, which mustered out of Oneida County in 1862 during the American Civil War. The collection includes hundreds of letters, official regimental documents, reunion programs, and reunion ribbons. View the collection >>
The Hamilton College Library holds one of the premier collections of Shaker books and periodicals. The digital collections include photographs, postcards, stereographs, cartes de vistes, product labels, and The Shaker Manifesto (catalog record), the official monthly journal of the American Shakers. It includes 349 issues with 8,136 pages published between 1871 and 1899. View the collection >>
Collections from the college archives the may be searched or browsed online include the Samuel Kirkland correspondence, the Baron F. W. von Steuben collection, the Judson-Dean family papers, the Alumni Register, and college catalogs. View the collection >>
The Hamilton College Jazz Archive holds a collection of videorecorded interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics. Collection of the interviews began in 1995 and is still ongoing. View the collection >>
The documentation includes pages about digitization, audio and video, text markup, metadata, project management submission procedures, legal issues, preservation, and systems. View documentation >>
