Hudson Area Library
Hudson Area Library
About
The Hudson Area Library, located in Hudson, NY, enriches the quality of life by providing free and equal access to programs, services and resources, and by creating opportunities for all members of our community to connect, create, learn and grow.
The library’s History Room houses resources that pertains to the history of the City of Hudson, Greenport and Stockport, as well as Columbia County and New York State. Among the holdings are sets of Hudson City Directories, Hudson High School’s Blue and Gold Yearbooks, early editions of poetry books by Edna St. Vincent Millay, historical periodicals, vintage postcards, and photographs including the Neefus Collection and photographs from the Rowles Collection. The archival collections contain newspaper clippings, original documents, photographs, local history booklets, pamphlets, and local oral histories. The books are all cataloged and searchable online in the Mid-Hudson Library System. The archival collections are organized by finding aid and container lists, which are available on the library's website.
Hudson Area Library is a member of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council.
Collections
Excerpts from a scrapbook documenting Hudson's Society to Promote Our Unique Town (SPOUT) initiative throughout the 1970s-80s. The scrapbook includes clippings, photographs, advertisements, posters, brochures, and administrative correspondence.
Materials curated by Black Legacy Association of Columbia County (BLACC) to showcase the contributions made by the Black community to Columbia County from slavery to the present time.
Directories from the City of Hudson containing residents' names, information on local businesses, and a variety of other data.
Images of buildings designed by architect Henry S. Moul.
This album dates from 1889-1890 and is a collection of photographs of soldiers with the 23rd Separate Company, recruited for the Spanish-American War and serving at Camp Wetherill near Greenville, South Carolina.
The bicentennial edition, published on April 8, 1985, of the founding of the Register-Star of Hudson, New York, includes information associated with the paper’s history.
Images and documentation about the lives of Ukrainian Americans living in Hudson, N.Y.