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How to Add to our collection

With your help, Historic Geneva preserves and shares our communities’ stories.   

What we Collect

  • Objects made in Geneva and/or by Genevans 
  • Object used or owned by local people 
  • Those objects that have a direct and important connection to an institution, event, or person relative to Geneva 

Examples of items we are looking for include event programs, flyers, and T-shirts; photos; family records; and stories (oral or written) about living and/or working in Geneva.

Focused Collecting

  • Experiences of our Black, Hispanic, Latinx, Syrian, and Jewish communities. 
  • Experiences of our LGBTQIA+ Community 
  • Late 20th-century physical materials and early 21st-century materials, including born-digital materials. 
  • Town of Geneva – fire companies (such as White Springs, West Lake Road, and North Side); homes and residents; and businesses. 

Please contact us before sending any donations. To discuss a possible donation to our collection, call 315-789-5151 or email curator@historicgeneva.org.

Due to space limitations, we may not be able to accept your items, particularly if we already have several of the same object or if the object does not have a Geneva connection. We prefer identified photographs of people, as unidentified photos have less research and display value to us.