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During the late 19th and early 20th century, 'consumption' was the term for tuberculosis. The demand for a cure brought about countless...

While some enjoy watching horror movies year round, October is certainly the time of year the general public will indulge in these...

For Southampton historians, William Smith Pelletreau (1840-1918) is revered for preserving town records (his tombstone read “He rescued...

With the right amount of deterioration, spooky lighting and imagination, any old building can look and feel spooky. But is there really...

These two Baroque Silver objects, a cream pitcher and sugar tureen respectively, were made by Joel Sayre (1778-1818).

This is a feed sack blanket made of four Camel brand feed sacks, produced by the Excelsior Milling Company.

On behalf of the Prelinger Archives, this interesting 28 minute documentary was uploaded to YouTube. This film shows amazing images of...

This toothbrush was manufactured in France by A. Dupont, most likely in the late 1800’s.

This is the Rolleiflex Camera Model K8 T1

In 2016 our former Curator, Emma Ballou, had the idea of highlighting some objects from our collection that one could easily walk right...

Agnes Lawrence Pelton has ties to Water Mill where she set up a studio in the Hayground Windmill

Here we have the Halsey House Historic Structure Report from 2014 that was done by Robert Hefner with research by Rosanne Barons. This is...

This is a Night Candle developed by Johann Gottlob August Glafey, circa 1869.

This is a bottle of American Ideal powder perfume, made by the California Perfume Co.

The hobby of collecting: - seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, maintaining. For the first time...