Hudson River Valley Digital Collections

Digital Collections | Online Exhibits | Collection Finding Aids
These collections and exhibits created by other organizations provide access to digital images that are not yet incorporated in HRVH.

Digital History Initiative of the Middletown Thrall Library
Middletown, A Photographic History, historic post cards, texts and local history images from the Local History Collection.

FDR Library Digital Archives
The Digital Archive of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum contains documents, photographs, audio and video recordings pertaining to Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. Also included are documents relating to Henry T. and John Hackett, Poughkeepsie lawyers.

The Marist Heritage Project
A multi-faceted effort to document the impact of the Marist Brothers, the founders of Marist College, on the development of the institution and the overall history of the College. Photographs, audio and video interviews, and written resources are being added with the goal of creating a digital archive.

The SUNY New Paltz Postcard Collection
Collection chronicles the history and development of New Paltz from the late 19th century to the present focusing on the evolution of SUNY, the village, and the Huguenot Street National Historic District.

USMA Digital Collections
Books, manuscripts, maps and photographs which are part of the rich history of West Point, The U. S. Military Academy, and Academy alumni drawn from Special Collections and Archives.

Beauty and the Brick: Illustrated Books & Nineteenth-Century Domestic Design
Award winning online exhibition featuring illustrated volumes from the Historic Hudson Valley collection explores how and why cultural advisors coached Americans about appropriate architecture and design.

Before DCC: Samuel and Nettie Bowne Hospital
Images of buildings, grounds, staff and patients at the Bowne tuberculosis hospital in Poughkeepsie ca. 1935. After the hospital closed in 1956, the facility became part of the Dutchess County Community College campus.

Cross Roads and Cross Rivers: Diversity in Colonial New York
Artifacts and images from Phillipsburg Manor demonstrate the diversity of peoples converging at this Lower Hudson River site. The commercial activities of the Phillipse family and other merchant/land speculators helped create colonial New York's culturally diverse society.

Duty and Disaster: Records Management and the Burning of Kingston: A Sampler of English Colonial Records Saved from the Burning of Kingston

Historic Hudson River
The Desmond Fish Library site features A Virtual Trip on the Historic Hudson River (1846) as well as literature, maps, and selected images from Hudson River painters.

A Hudson River Portfolio
Selection of nineteenth-century materials for the art and culture of the Hudson River and its region drawn from the collections of The New York Public Library.

"I'm now in Rebeldom": New Paltz Soldiers in the Civil War (PDF file)
This exhibit explores the impact of this event on the people of New Paltz through photographs, quotations, and text.

Marist Brothers in Esopus
History of the property in Esopus, Ulster County from the 17th to the twentieth century including deeds, land grants, owners, architects and documents relating to the property.

New York State Archives Photo Gallery
Includes Treason in New York: documents relating to Benedict Arnold, John André and West Point.

Newington Cropsey Foundation
Collections including oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, architectural renderings, and letters related to Jasper F. Cropsey and the Hudson River School.

Ulster County Poorhouse Project
A historic examination of Ulster County's underpriviledged.

Vassar College Libraries Exhibit Highlights

Westchester County Virtual Archives

The following resources are descriptive guides to collections of primary source materials in regional libraries, archives, and museums. While some include keyword searchable databases or other searchable indexes, the level of information provided varies by depository. Typically included are biographical sketches and administrative histories, collection and series descriptions, box and folder lists, or folder and item lists as described in What Are Archival Finding Aids?

Documenting the Agricultural Records of the Black Dirt Region
A Finding Aid to the "drowned lands" of Orange County by the Middletown Thrall Library.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum On-line Documents

The Safe Files

Great Britain Diplomatic Files Folder Titles List

Huguenot Historical Society Special Collections

Marist College Archives and Special Collections On-line Finding Aids

SUNY New Paltz Postcard Collection Finding Aid

Ulster County Clerk's Office Collections

Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Registers and Other Research Tools