Historical Newspapers on HRVH

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! or so the headline goes on the brochure to check out HRVH Historical Newspapers online. Ok, to be more specific, what is available is a 10 year span of The Kingston Daily Freeman from the years 1903 - 1913 (and 1895 also) - 2974 complete issues available for your perusal. The intention is to spearhead an effort in the Hudson Valley to digitize local historical newspapers with the Daily Freeman being the test sample. Full pages as well as individual articles are searchable and viewable. Take note, The Kingston Daily Freeman is an excellent place to look for primary sources when doing reseach about the Hudson Valley.

HRVH is a collaborative initiative sponsored by Southeastern NY Library Resources Council and local libraries, historical societies, archives, museums across 7 counties in NYS: Greene, Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange and Putnam.

While you are at it, another project which may be of interest to scholars/researchers or casual lookers is the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley. Sound and Story has digitized pieces of oral history collections and posted them online for your listening pleasure. According to their web pages, "Our stories come from many places. Some are in library and museum oral history collections. Some come from recordings we have made. Some have been found by people like you in shoe boxes in the backs of closets. And some have yet to be told."

Some of the information found in this entry comes from promotional material distributed by SENYLRC.

1960 at Dutchess Community College

Hudson River Valley Heritage has an amazing collection of prints, media and objects digitized online for students, teachers and the general public to access. This collaborative effort across the Hudson Valley has created a comprehensive database of digital media, primarily photographs. Recently, seventy plus photos from 1960 at Dutchess Community College were added to the collection. Click here to check them out. See what Dutchess looked like in its early days!

For the full collection of HRVH images, click the HRVH logo.



For all of Dutchess' collection, click here.

Online digitization project

Click the logo above to take a look at the great initiative that Dutchess Community College is involved with! Hudson River Valley Heritage presents to the public a collection of digitized photos, memos, objects, and oral contributions covering the history of the Hudson River Valley area. More materials are being posted daily!

Local libraries, historical societies, colleges and organizations have all joined together in contributing to this collaborative effort of documenting the history of the Hudson River Valley through images. This online, unlimited access digitization project is being spearheaded by Southeastern New York Library Resources Council (SENYLRC) and the Francis U. and Mary F. Ritz Library is proud to be involved with digitizing 50 years of photos and documentation pertaining to the history of the community college and its contributions to the community.

Click here to link to DCC's historical images. Click here to view a list of all the collections that are available to access. Let us know what you think!