What a year (book) at Hamilton, NY Public Library
Travis L. Olivera
We are pleased to announce the newest addition to our local online resources, digital yearbooks! More specifically, the Hamiltonians, yearbooks from Hamilton Central School from the years 1950-1989, excluding for some unknown reason 1969!
These are available for free to anyone who wants to look at them. You can find them on the “Local History” tab on our website, or through New York Heritage’s website (NYHeritage.org) if you want to hunt a bit (and find other neat New York history gems).
This was a project that had been ongoing for some time, beginning a few years ago with previous assistant director Meghan Bremiller responding to an ad from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections who was reaching out to institutions to have their inmates digitize materials. We took them up on their offer, sent them a few boxes of yearbooks and they returned them, along with CDs filled with PDFs from every book - even the ad