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10:00 am - noon and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Materials in the Adirondack Collection do not circulate. Strict rules set by the Adirondack Committee govern use of the Collection. A copy of the rules is obtainable at the library. The room is open to researchers at no charge. The Adirondack Room welcomes gifts of letters, manuscripts, journals, albums, photographs, and other Adirondack historical materials for the documentation and preservation of our Adirondack heritage. Purchase are possible if warranted.

Aerial view of former National Vaudeville Artists Hospital
or
Will Rogers Hospital, presently Saranac Village
at Will Rogers Retirement Faclilty.
#85.349

In our collection:

ADIRONDACK CLASSICS
Todd, Lundy, Street, Headley, Murray, Hammond

HISTORY
Donaldson, Hochschild, White, Campbell,
Landon, Masten, Adirondack Country,
local and oral histories

MAPS, ATLASES, GAZETTEERS, GUIDE BOOKS
French, Stoddard, Wallace, Sanborn

REFERENCE MATERIALS
Tuberculosis, Logging and Forestry, Adirondack Geology
Botany, Zoology

REPORTS
Colvin, Forest Commission, Forest Fish and Game Commission
Conservations Commision

PAMPHLETS
Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks reports,
Early hotel circulars, hundreds of others of Adirondack historical importance

MANUSCRIPTS
Lundy, Donaldson, Reben and other local biographers and historians

PERIODICALS
Forest and Stream, Journal of the Outdoor Life
Forest Leaves, Adirondack Life, ADK Publications,
Directories, Saranac Lake High School Yearbooks

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON COLLECTION

PHOTOGRAPHS
3500 glass plate negatives
4500 catalogued photographs; Distin,
Kollecker, Stoddard, Baldwin
1200 lantern slides

POSTCARD COLLECTION
Over 2500 Adirondack postcards

George Marshall Adirondack Collection
Books, NYS Conservation Reports, Colvin Reports, Travel Guides,
Periodicals, Correspondences, Pamphlets,
Maps, Photographs, Lantern Slides

Historical Highlights

The Northern New York Library Network maintains a catalog of Tuberculosis-related Materials in the William Chapman White Memorial Room.
To see their material click here.