There is a rich history of nautical travel along the Hudson River by the means of steamboats, sloops, and barges. This collection chronicles some of the many vessels that made their way up and down the Hudson River during the 1800s and through documents pretaining to their the business transactions.

The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Collection consists of studies, reports, correspondence, and clippings documenting the society’s interests in local environmental issues. The collection also includes office materials, litigation, and Clearwater events.

Hudson River Steamboat biographies written by George W. Murdock, Jr. for the Kingston (NY) Freeman newspaper. Murdock, a veteran marine engineer, wrote a regular column in the 1930s. Over 200 articles comprise this collection.

The Hudson River Valley Commission (HRVC) was formed by Governor Rockefeller and his staff to regulate development along the Hudson River in 1966. This collection primarily consists of the findings from a series of surveys conducted by the HRVC between 1965 and 1970.

The Hudson River Valley Commission was a New York State Agency, established by the Legislature in 1966, to coordinate planning along the Hudson River and to encourage the balanced development of the Valley’s land and resources. The HRVC collection consists of testimony, exhibits, legal briefs, opinions & orders, publicity materials, and stenographer’s reports concerning the Storm King decision.

The Hudson River Valley Greenway Council Collection documents the development and growth of the Greenway Council. The collection consists of handouts and minutes of meetings and clippings gathered and collected by the Greenway Council. The meetings cover a variety of topics, from local environmental hearings to expansion of the Council, to protecting the Hudson Riverbanks, parks, and hiking trails. The clippings cover topics of environmental importance in and around the Hudson River Valley.

On November 14, 1946 the Carpenters' District Council of Ulster County and Vicinity was chartered. This council had local chapters in Kingston and Ellenville, New York. During the late 1940's local unions in the area began affiliating with the district council and eventually the district council, on May 4, 1949, was rechartered as the Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters, the change of name more closely describing its jurisdiction. New local unions continued to be created, and independent local unions continued to affiliate with the district council. By the early 1950's the district council represented carpenters in Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster counties.

The Hudson Valley GREEN (Grass Roots Energy & Environmental Network) Collection documents the development of the environmental group and their constant vigilance in protecting the environment in the Hudson River Valley Area. This collection includes printed material, environmental magazines and newspapers, Hudson Valley GREEN Times, background material, business files, slides and film, as well as a variety of other documents and reports funded by the New York State Government and other Federal organizations. Also included in the collection are files dealing with specific topics such as Indian Point, James Bay, 765 Power Line Controversy, Con Edison v. Mid Hudson Nuclear Opponents and the Town of Red Hook as well as variety of other topics.

The collection contains photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, trade publications, press releases, promotional material, price catalogs, receipts, and other ephemera related to the Hudson Valley Paper Company during its time of operation from 1875-2011.

This collection documents the establishment and first quarter century of activities of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.