About New York Heritage
NewYorkHeritage.org is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and others who are interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of historical New York State. The site provides immediate free access to more than 160 distinct digital collections that reflect New York State's long history. These collections represent a broad range of historical, scholarly, and cultural materials held in libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state. Collection items include photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, newspapers, books, and more.
NewYorkHeritage.org has been listed for inclusion in the "Best of Reference: Hybrid Print and Electronic Resources for 2009."Best of Reference is an annual list of books, websites and electronic resources selected by a committee of librarians for their usefulness in branch reference collections, organization of materials, style of presentation and authority of authors and editors. Sources were selected by staff of the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library and Queens Library. For a complete list of the Best of Reference go to BestofReference.googlepages.com
How to use this site:
When doing a search from the search box, this website will locate items that match your search criteria
in all collections in all NY 3Rs CONTENTdm sites. Your search results may retrieve items from only one collection or multiple collections depending on the topic. When you click
on a particular item in the search results a new window will open directly into the regional 3Rs CONTENTdm site
and specifically into the collection in which the item is housed.
Copyright
Specific copyright requirements for each entry are included with the descriptive material that accompanies each image.Acknowledgements
NewYorkHeritage.org is grateful to OCLC for its support for the first year of this project, and to the New York State Library for its assistance in the development of digitization within the regions and the state. NewYorkHeritage.org is part of the New York State Board of Regent’s New York Digital Collection Initiative.
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