Display: Melville Library, Level 2, East
Explore a selection of items (facsimiles) from our diverse collections on the east
side of the library's second floor.
More images and additional information to come.
The display reflects an ongoing commitment to connecting the university, community,
and visitors to our collections through shared stories, scholarship, and cultural
heritage.
Stony Brook Station, Stony Brook, New York
Photograph; c1905.
Sepia photograph attributed to Arthur S. Greene showing the arrival of the 2:37pm
train at the Stony Brook depot.
Robert M. Emery Long Island Rail Road Collection.
Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.
Map; Willem Janszoon Blaeu [Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1640?].
This map of New Netherland and New England reflects the Dutch perspective on early explorations. Long Island has been given the place name “Matowacs.” Several other important place names make their first cartographical appearances: Manhates
(Manhattan), Hellegat (Hell Gate), and Adrian Blocks eylandt (Block Island).
Main floor of Coe Hall at Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, New York.
Photograph; c1959.
Coe Hall, the main building at Stony Brook University’s first campus in Oyster Bay consisted of a dining hall, a coffee shop, a lounge, a library, and the “great hall.”
Photograph from the University Archives.
Old Field Point, New York.
Photograph; February 4, 1902.
Schooner "John Crockford” abandoned in ice on the Long Island Sound three miles off of Old Field
Point, New York.
Photograph by Byron W. Hallock.
The Emory Payson and Jean Wilcox Tuttle Estate Collection.
Gift of the Tuttle Family.
Tintypes and Portraits Collection
The collection contains 3 linear inches of tintype portraits from the 1860s–1880s.
Tintypes, similar in size and presentation to daguerreotypes, are chemically negatives
but appear positive due to their black iron backing.
Gift of Leighton Coleman III.
