Hudson River Valley Heritage

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Bard College

This collection is intended as a broad selection of materials from the College Archive that locates Bard within the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the Hudson Valley.

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Browse the Ward Manor Collection - In 1926 William Ward of the Ward Baking Company funded the renovation of the river …

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Bard College
Chatham Public Library

A selection of items from our local history collection including class photographs documenting Chatham Schools students and faculty from 1880-1940.

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Chatham Public Library
Chester Historical Society

A sampling of items that help to tell the story of the people, business, farms, industries, natural history of the greater Chester, Orange County, New York community.

This project is conducted in cooperation with, and the support of  the office of the Town of Chester Historian.

The Chester Historical Society’s mission is to promote …

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Chester Historical Society
Columbia County Historical Society

This site features a selection of the over 7,500 photographic prints, negatives, and slides in the Columbia County Historical Society's collection.  Items in the entire collection range from postcards of the county's landscape and communities, many views of local houses, and daguerreotypes of county residents, to photos of …

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Columbia County Historical Society
Consortium of Rhinebeck History

The Consortium of Rhinebeck History offers material from various members of the Consortium.  The focus is on the history of Rhinebeck and its relationship to the mid-Hudson Valley and New York State.  Photographs, documents, objects and postcards provide a sense of life through the centuries, from Rhinebeck's founding in 1686. …

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Consortium of Rhinebeck History

About the collections



HRVH provides access to historical materials from digital collections contributed by colleges, libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations from the following counties in New York State: Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Westchester.

 

Organizations continue to contribute collections that contain a variety of photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs from events, memorabilia and ephemera, and audio and video clips. Many of these collections include unique historical resources not previously available in digital format.

 

For more information please visit our About page.

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