New York Heritage Digital Collections is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else interested in the Empire State’s history. The site brings together digital collections from more than 260 libraries, museums and archives from eight of the nine ESLN regions.*  It provides a gateway to more than 670 distinct digital collections that reflect New York State’s long history.

These collections represent a broad range of historical, scholarly, and cultural materials, including photographs, letters, diaries, oral histories, city directories, maps, newspapers, books, and more.

*Note: METRO hosts images at Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York.