History Unbound: Allegany County

Various scenes and individuals related to the history of Alfred University as well as the town and village of Alfred, New York.

Letters and photographs of Charles F. Binn, the "Father of American Ceramics," from the NYS College of Ceramics, now a part of SUNY Alfred State College.

Photographs of Wellsville in Allegany County after the severe flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Wellsville had the most expensive damaged site from Agnes: the new hospital.

Hurricane Agnes swept across the Middle Atlantic states causing heavy, constant rain in June of 1972. Houghton College (now Houghton University), situated on a hill, was not flooded, but the surrounding village was.

Tintypes, black and white photographs, and color photographs of the towns, countryside, and daily life in the southern Genesee Valley river valley region from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries.

Titles range from 1875 to 1965

Search for Allegany in the top right to generate a table of Allegany County newspapers, including coverage of Alfred, Andover, Angelica, Belfast, Belmont, Bolivar, Canaseraga, Cub, Friendship, and Whitesville.

PDFs of the local Andover newspaper from the 1860s through the 1970s.

includes records for defunct Alfred Historical Society; "notice of reward for runaway bound boy, 1846"; Alva Fritz Randolph papers about agricultural & dairy records; flood of 1972; Alfred University New Left collection about radicalism in 1960s; student protests

Poor House Inventory 1879-80; WCTU; 1972 flood; Public Health Nursing Service log book 1922-24; Public Health Camp accounts, 1937-40; local photos

floods

flood of 1972; local photos

county agricultural records; records of French exiles in Angelica (copies); 1863 views of the Genesee Valley

local photos; cheese factory history; Oil Spring Indian Reservation

Susan B Anthony Club records; George Mott 1917 photos including "Fresh Air children"

local photos; tape recordings at the Canaseraga Historical Society "concerning Indians of the area"; floods; oil history

local photos

local photos; oil history

local photos; 1880s oil boom history