Clinton County Historical Association
Glass Negatives Portrait Project

For many years the Clinton County Historical Association has been diligently identifying, sorting, re-sleeving and generally rediscovering a collection of over 15,000 glass negatives dating back to 1897.

The vast majority of these images are studio portraits of Clinton County residents. The Clinton County Historical Association is proud to now be able to display online examples of these fascinating portraits. The portraits we have selected for online display are from the years 1901 - 1905 and include a name, an exact date and a place of residence. Reprints of any of these photos can be purchased by the general public through this photo gallery site. It should be noted that any reprints ordered will be rescanned at a higher resolution before they are reprinted in order to provide the maximum possible print quality.

View these portraits here.

The process of identifying these portraits in the CCHA archives is now complete and includes the entire alphabet. We hope you enjoy browsing through these photos. They offer a unique glimpse into Clinton County's past. With a little luck and some careful research, you may even uncover an ancestor of your own family.

Besides the portrait photos we have scanned and made available online, we have also identified the name and exact date of a large number of additional photos. The links below will allow you to view and/or print lists with the information (not the actual photos) pertaining to both the unscanned and scanned photos.

ALL_Unscanned_portraits.pdf

ALL_Scanned_portraits.pdf

You will need the free Adobe Reader to use these files. It may already be installed on your computer. If not you can download it by clicking the icon below.

If you would like to view any photos from the unscanned list, a member of the CCHA staff can retrieve them from our archives, scan them and upload them to a special gallery on our Glass Negative Photos site. A search and scanning fee of $7.00 per photo will need to be paid to CCHA before they can be uploaded. Please call (518) 561-0340 to arrange for this service.