Digital Collections

University Archives

The University Archives houses a collection of materials relating to Binghamton University. Digitised materials include campus publications, bulletins, reports, and photographs.

Oral History and Interviews

This collection includes oral history projects created by the Libraries as well as collections of oral history interviews donated by researchers and community organizations.

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Binghamton University Yearbooks

Binghamton University’s yearbook was published under several different titles. It was first called The Colonist in 1948, then became The Yearer in 1970, Pegasus in 1973 and finally Binghamton University in 2004. This Digital Collection includes digitized yearbooks from 1948-1972.

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Local History Digital Collections

Local history resources focus on the history of Broome County and its surrounding areas.

Civil War Digital Collection

This collection includes digitized letters and diaries, many of which  were written by soldiers at the front, or in Army hospitals, to their family and friends back home.

Binghamton University Photograph Project 2000 - present

Includes over 100,000 digital photographs taken by the university’s photographers. The images document important moments in the university’s history and also day to day life on campus.

Max Reinhardt Archives and Libraries

Max Reinhardt was a celebrated theatre director. The collection includes digitized promptbooks and photographs. Reinhardt's illustrious career takes on added significance because it coincides with a major shift in the evolution of the modern theater: the ascendancy of the director as the key figure in theatrical production.

Binghamton Community Poets' Big Horror Reading Series

The Binghamton Community Poets were founded in 1983 by native Binghamton poet and educator Richard Martin. That year he started the “Big Horror Reading Series” at a local coffee house. Many of the readings between 1987 and 1996 were videotaped. This streaming video collection features nationally and internationally known writers as well as local community writers and musicians.

Individual Poems from the Binghamton Community Poets' Big Horror Reading Series

The twelve excerpted poems found here are an introduction to the Binghamton Community Poets' Big Horror Reading Series. They are linked not only to the full individual readings in Rosetta but also to the catalog records for the books in which they are published. This creates a unique convergence experience, as the catalog record “comes alive” and users can see and hear an excerpt from the book before they take it off the shelf to read.

Edwin A. Link and Marion Clayton Link Collection

Edwin A. Link and Marion Clayton Link were  local inventors, industrialists and pioneers in aviation simulation, underwater archaeology, and ocean engineering.  The digital collection includes scanned images and correspondence.

Binghamton University Music Recitals

An audio collection of concerts and recitals given on campus by students, faculty, and outside musical groups. This collection includes access to the recordings (on-campus only) and scanned copies of the programs.

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Many graduates have elected to make their dissertations, capstones, and theses available online through the Libraries' institutional repository, ORB. This collection also includes pre-1978 dissertations that have been digitized by the Libraries.

Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Collection

Vera Beaudin Saeedpour started the Kurdish Heritage Foundation, Kurdish Library and Kurdish Museum all out of her home in Brooklyn, NY in the early 1980s. The collection includes digitized images of costumes and jewelry as well as weavings, crafts, carpets and other textile art.

Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations Web Archive

A web archive of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. The activities of the Center fall loosely into four categories: hosting international scholars, sponsoring major conferences and scholarly meetings, initiating and supporting Research Working Groups, carrying on an active publication program. The Libraries have preserved the entirety of the Center's website using the web archiving service, Conifer.

Immanual Wallerstein Website

Dr. Immanual Wallerstein was a distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University until his retirement in 1999. Dr. Wallerstein also served as the head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations until 2005. In 1998, the Fernand Braudel Center (FBC) at Binghamton University published Dr. Wallerstein's first commentary. Between 1998 to 2019, Dr. Wallerstein produced two commentaries a month. His 500th was the last commentary he published. This web archive collection provides access to the commentaries that Dr. Wallerstein published on his website.

Institute for Development Anthropology Papers

The Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) was an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institution founded in 1976 by Michael Horowitz, Thayer Scudder, and David Brokensha. Their goal was to focus on themes of equitable economic growth, environmental sustainability, resolution and social conflict, and participatory government.  The Libraries’ have digitized the Institute’s Working Papers as well as a selection of reports.

Women's March Archives

A collection of images from the campus community and the community at large of the January 21, 2017 Women's March. The collection includes images taken from the Binghamton protest  as well as protests from around the country.