NewYorkHeritage.org adds collections
School Library System | September 6, 2009
The New York 3Rs Association has added sixteen more online collections to its collective digital heritage web site, www.NewYorkHeritage.org The site now connects more than 200 digital collections from around the state, contributed by libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions, and builds on existing digital repository services administered by each of the nine reference and research library resources councils.
New materials include the following:
- Historical Portraits Collection from Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Elmira College’s Mark Twain Archive
- New York Historical Association’s Murder Pamphlet Collection Exhibit
- Early Robert Montgomery materials housed at the Trinity-Pawling School Collection
- Rochester Medical Museum and Archives
- Folk art collections at the Crandall Public Library Folklife Center
For an up-to-date list of collections and contributors, please go to www.NewYorkHeritage.org
A variety of materials can be found among the New York Heritage Digital Collections, including photographs, postcards, correspondence, manuscripts, oral histories, yearbooks and newspapers. Many kinds of institutions from New York State have partnered to make this project possible, including public, academic and school libraries, museums, archives and historical societies. The power of collaboration is what makes this new service possible.
