Earlier this year, Kevin began the arduous task of delving into one of our newest collections, the Richard M. Bloomer Glass Plate Negative Collection. Thousands of early Twentieth century portraits are encased within 24 boxes. With only 1,000 images scanned and cataloged thus far, we are moving forward with research in the hopes of having an exhibition ready in early 2022. The simplest place to start is the names included on (most of) the negative sleeves. One of the portrait

Every so often, reorganization must occur. The local yearbook collection in the Folklife Center has been arranged by title for many years, but it becomes difficult to browse if one doesn't know that Queensbury's yearbook is called "Orbit". We have been discussing rearranging the yearbooks by city for a few months now, & I decided to take a crack at it today! In the process of reorganizing the yearbooks, I discovered a few with interesting cover art. Plus, a number of the year