The Homeville Museum’s collections include many photographs and documents. We’re in the process of digitizing many of them, and we’ll have them available here for you to look at.

The digital collections which are available so far are these:

• “Genie’s” World War Two photos – “Genie” was an Army nurse in World War Two. She was stationed in Northern Ireland and England during the war, and toured around the UK. This collection includes many of the photographs she took, which were donated to the Homeville Museum in 2023. 
• William Fairbanks Scrapbook – William Fairbanks (1920-1954) served as a Radioman/Gunner in the South Pacific during World War Two. He flew in a B-25 bomber which was part of the 345th Bomber Wing, 501st Bomb Squadron, stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines, Nadzab in Papua New Guinea and Ie Shima (part of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan). The 345th escorted the Japanese envoys to the surrender in Manilla at the end of the war. His scrapbook is in the Homeville Collection, and it includes hundreds of unique images from his Army service. 
• The Railroad Collection – Ken Eaton collected many photographs from the railroads which once served Cortland County, as well as a great deal of paper ephemera – train orders, timetables and so on. This collection is growing over time, as we scan more of the material on hand.