Our online digital collections make available some materials from Special Collections and the College Archives.
Special Collections materials can also be found in:
- New York Heritage Digital Collections
- Find the full text of the Cardinal Yearbook, images from our photograph collections, SUNY Plattsburgh faculty newsletters, Civil War letters, and other digitized materials in the New York Heritage Digital Collections. This online database also includes digitized materials contributed by organizations from across New York state.
- New York State Historic Newspapers
- Find full-text news articles in New York State Historic Newspapers, which includes newspapers from all over N.Y. state and the SUNY Plattsburgh student newspaper, Cardinal Points and its predecessors (1940–2006).
Online Exhibits
Students, faculty and staff, and community members have worked with Special Collections to build exhibits about the history of the college and the surrounding region. Visit these exhibits below:
- The Mother Church: The First Baptist Church of Keeseville — Designed and created by Robin Caudell
- Capturing the History of SUNY Plattsburgh’s Student Nightlife Scene in the 1980s and 1990s — Designed by University of Washington graduate student, Eleanor Schulz
- Winning With Peace: A Look at the Vietnam Protest Movement at Plattsburgh State — Designed and created by Special Collections intern, Christina Holland.
- Seneca Ray Stoddard, A Visual Legacy — Born in 1844 in the town of Wilton in Saratoga County, Stoddard began his career as an ornamental painter of railroad cars in Troy, New York, in 1862.
- And Still We Rise: Celebrating Plattsburgh’s (Re)Discovery of Iconic Black Visitors, PSC 371 student exhibit
- Plattsburgh Rocks! Concert Posters — History of music concerts at SUNY Plattsburgh, created by former Feinberg Library librarian, Tim Hartnett.
- John Brown — His Life and History — Explore the world of this famous — and controversial — abolitionist. Exhibit by Special Collections Associate, Michael Burgess.
