Isabelle K. Savell Local History Department

Local History
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Local History Department Resources:

• Nyack Library Local History Image Collection - http://www.hrvh.org/nyacklibrary
• Photograph Use Policy
• Rockland County Journal online at http://news.hrvh.org (1850-1879)
• Do you have items to donate to the local history collection? Use our Deed of Gift form for photographs and other original materials
• Genealogy research at the Nyack Library: a list of helpful sources
• Researching your house history at The Nyack Library: a list of helpful sources
• List of folders in the Vertical Files by subject (press the CTRL key+F to search) 
• List of pamphlets in the Local History Department
  
• Original 19th century maps
• Sanborn insurance maps
• Nyack families information
• Nyack High School yearbooks dating from 1927
• Rockland County Board of Supervisors minutes from the 1800s
• 1905 St. George Hotel register

Featured Displays:

• Main Street Through the Years (on display in the library through the end of September 2011)

Nyack's Main Street through the years: postcards and photographs from the collection of The Nyack Library on Prezi

• Nyack Library History
• African American History
• The Underground Railroad

Additional sources of local history information:

• Nyack Local History Links on Delicious
• Historical Society of the Nyacks
• Genealogical Society of Rockland County
• Historical Society of Rockland County
• New York State Historical Association
• Rockland County (N.Y.) newspapers in microfilm
• Rockland County Archives
• New York State Department of Health
• New City Library's Rockland Room contains over 3,000 volumes detailing Rockland County history.
• Hudson River Valley Heritage

About the Local History Department

The Nyack Library’s Isabelle K. Savell Local History Department is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and promoting the study of local history in Nyack, Rockland County, and the Hudson Valley region.    Our collection consists of vertical files of newspaper clippings (270 linear feet), pamphlets (175 linear feet), photographs and postcards (over 5000 images and growing) , approximately 1600 books and growing, maps (70+), oral history recordings (approximately 70 audio tapes and some recently acquired DVD recordings),  and ephemera.   We are working diligently to make these materials more accessible to the general public by digitizing parts of the collection and creating finding aids and indexes to increase use of the collection.  Most of our photograph collection is now available to search on the Hudson River Valley Heritage web site:  http://www.hrvh.org/nyacklibrary

If you have items of local interest you would like to donate to the library, please call (845-358-3370 extension 223), email Brian Jennings at bjennings@nyacklibrary.org , or stop by the local history room to chat.