The Ulster County Archives has launched its first digital collections on New York Heritage Digital Collections, offering free public access.
As a new member of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, the Archives division of the County Clerk’s office has been busy digitizing and describing a selection of historic images and publications.
Three collections are now available. These include a selection of 245 images of the Ashokan Reservoir during construction, courtesy of historian John Duda, and a small selection of images showing Shipyards on the Rondout Creek.
Notably, a complete run of all ten volumes of Benjamin Brink’s Olde Ulster Magazine, a journal produced between 1905 and 1914 by local historian Benjamin Myer Brink (1847-1915), has also been made available in its entirety online for the first time.
The late Ulster County Clerk Nina Postupack, laid the foundation for the commencement of this project. Her forethought in accepting and preserving the photo morgue of the Kingston Daily Freeman was an almost unprecedented decision for a Clerk’s Office.
The decision challenged the County Archives staff to develop a system to digitize and catalog the collections, which will eventually be over 85,000 images.
“I know folks have heard a lot about the Freeman collection recently as well as the amazing collection of Gene Dauner now in our care” stated Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck, “this new venue is where you will need to keep an eye out as we start to publish selections of both these remarkable collections over the course of this winter.”
You can explore these newly digitized collections free of charge online here.
Illustration: The hull for US Navy rescue tug ATR-82 slips sideways down the ways at at Island Dock Inc. in 1943 on Rondout Creek with onlookers on the Wurts Street Bridge.
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