HRVH Digital Collections

Welcome to the Hudson River Valley Heritage digital collections. These collections contain digitized images from contributing organizations throughout the Hudson River Valley.

Click on a contributers's name to view their collections.

			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.

			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.

			Columbia County Historical Society A selection of images from the Columbia County Historical Society's collection of over 7,500 photographs of the county's history and culture.

			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. Citizens depicted include both the rich and famous and those who formed the backbone of the community.

			Dutchess Community College This collection documents the history of Dutchess Community College.

			Dutchess County Historical Society A selection of items from the Dutchess County Historical Society's collections.

			Ellenville Public Library & Museum The mission of the Ellenville Public Library and Museum is to provide resources, services, and public programming of the highest possible quality to meet the ongoing informational, educational, cultural, and recreational needs of its broadly diverse community.

			Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum The items contributed here are examples of the various Hudson River materials available at the Roosevelt Library.

			Greene County Libraries Association This collection consists of maps from the Beers Atlas of Greene County, published in 1867.

			Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at Elting Memorial Library The Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection is a non-circulating research section of the Elting Memorial Library. It is a repository for primary source materials and published works relating to the Hudson Valley region in New York state. The strongest focus is on the town and village of New Paltz, New York.

			Historic Huguenot Street A selection of items from the Historic Huguenot Street archives including a sampling of early New Paltz manuscripts, 1672-1750.

			Howland Public Library Together with the Beacon Historical Society this varied collection of photographs, documents and ephemera portray the history of the Howland Public Library, beginning with its inception in 1872 as the Howland Circulating Library up to the present. An emphasis is placed on the day-to-day operations of a small Hudson River Valley city library and the private lives of people involved.

			Hudson Area Association Library A selection of items from our local history collection including items documenting the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration.

			Hudson River Valley Institute The Hudson River Valley Institute is involved in an ongoing effort to collect, digitize, and share rare, out-of-print, and hard to find articles, essays, books and documents illustrating or discussing the social, cultural, economic, and natural history of our region.

			Library Association of Rockland County The Library Association of Rockland County (LARC) offers the postcard and photograph collections from the participating Rockland County public libraries.

			Locust Grove, the Samuel Morse Historic Site This collections includes preliminary drawing, sketches, and architectural plans by Samuel F. B. Morse and his architect Alexander Jackson Davis for the renovation and expansion of the Locust Grove mansion in 1851.

			Marlboro Free Library Images in the Marlboro Free Library collection can be viewed as a community scrapbook of people, places, and events in the Town of Marlborough, a small community on the western shore of the Hudson River. Most of these images capture the economic, recreational and civic pursuits of 19th Century New Yorkers in a farming community where the Hudson River was the major "highway."

			Maybrook Railroad Historical Society A selection of images and documents from the collections of the Maybrook Railroad Historical Society.

			Millbrook Free Library The Town of Washington/Village of Millbrook Historical Society and the Library have combined assets to tell the story of Halcyon Hall and the people who shared its story.

			Newburgh Free Library This collection is a sampling of photographs, postcards and maps available in the Local History Room of the Newburgh Free Library that illustrates the social, cultural and political history of the Newburgh Enlarged City School District since the Library's founding in 1852.

			Nyack Library The Nyack Library's Local History Image Collection is an eclectic mix of photographs, postcards, and other ephemera which documents life in the Nyacks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

			Orange County Community College This collection documents the lives of the Horton and Morrison families and the evolution of Orange County Community College.

			Orangetown Historical Museum & Archives The items in this collection provide a lively and varied glimpse of life in a small town at the beginning of the 20th century.

			Plattekill Historical Society This collection is a sampling of photographs, postcards and ephemera pertaining to the villages of Ardonia, Clintondale, Modena, New Hurley, Plattekill, Tuckers Corners and Unionville - all located within the Town of Plattekill, Ulster County, New York.

			Senate House State Historic Site A selection of items from the archival collections at the Senate House State Historic Site including a sampling of documents from the Colonial period and Revolutionary War.

			Somers Historical Society A selection from the circus and local history collections of the Somers Historical Society, Westchester County, NY.

			Stone Ridge Library This collection consists of oral history interviews and supporting materials from the Rondout Valley Folklore Collection at the Stone Ridge Library.

			SUNY New Paltz The Sojourner Truth Library Historic Photograph Collection documents the history of higher education in the town of New Paltz, from the establishment of the first New Paltz Academy in 1828, to the present State University of New York at New Paltz

			The Historical Society of Rockland County Selected materials from the Historical Society of Rockland County.

			Trinity-Pawling School This collection documents the acting debut of Robert Montgomery while attending Pawling School in Pawling, New York.

			Tuxedo Park Library This collection is representative of items contained in the Local History Room of the Tuxedo Park Library, including photographs, maps, scrapbooks and other materials pertaining to the history and everyday life of residents of the Town of Tuxedo.

			Ulster County Community College This collection consists of bound handwritten journals recording testimony from business owners who suffered loss of income as a result of the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir.

			Vassar Brothers Medical Center A collection of images from the VBMC Archives depicts the history of the institution, from incorporation as Vassar Brothers Hospital in 1886 to modern day.

			Vassar College This collection consists of materials relating to the early history of Vassar College, from its founding in 1861 to the early years of the 20th century.

			Wilderstein Preservation The Wilderstein Preservation project contains World War I materials at Wilderstein, home of the Suckley family, with focus on the activities of Henry Eglinton Montgomery Suckley (HEMS).

			Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild The 1903 Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony, situated in Woodstock, NY and part of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, is represented in this collection through the art work produced at the Colony, its Arts and Crafts architecture, various writings about its philosophy and impact, photographs and other material.

			Woodstock Public Library These photographs of the Maverick Festivals and Maverick Musicians are representative of the collection of historical materials held by the Woodstock Public Library District. The Maverick Festivals were the forerunner of the Maverick Sunday Concerts, currently in its centennial year.

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