CUNY Digital History Archive
The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project to collect and preserve the people's histories of the City University of New York. Co-administered by the Mina Rees Library and the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning since 2021.
Digital Murray Hill
This digital collection is made up of 280 images depicting the Murray Hill Neighborhood in Manhattan. It includes historical photographs as well as newly commissioned ones that show how the neighborhood has changed over time.
In 1976, as the United States celebrated its Bicentennial, the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association (MHNA) organized an exhibition of images which depicted how their neighborhood had changed over the last hundred years. That exhibition, which for many years was on display at the CUNY Graduate Center, is at the heart of this digital project of 280 images, which expanded upon the 1976 materials by adding newly commissioned photographs and hiring a graduate student to research the architectural history of each site.
Remember Me to Herald Square: 34th Street from River to River
This collection is a collaborative project between the Mina Rees Library, the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library, and the Gotham Center for New York City History, is a montage of 246 images of Thirty-fourth Street, past and present. Contemporary images were taken by photographer Jeanette O’Keefe during the summer of 2010. These color street shots contrast beautifully with the historic images of Thirty-fourth.
The Opening of the Erie Canal
The 2005 digital Erie Canal exhibit was a joint venture between the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library, then a part of the New Media Lab, and the 18th Century Reading Room, then a part of the Mina Rees Library. The materials digitized were original primary source documents, reports, budgetary information, maps, newspaper articles, ephemera, letters, broadsides, excerpts from travel books and other printed materials outlining and documenting the construction, development and history of the Erie Canal beginning with a proposal submitted for an inland lock navigation system in New York State in 1792 through the replacement of mule power by mechanized barges in the early twentieth century. These source materials on the Erie Canal were directly related to the history and cultural heritage of New York City and Westchester County, as well as the state of New York and the development and expansion of the United States.
CUNYdid Slide Library
The Graduate Center's slide library was scanned to create CUNYdid in JSTOR, a collection of almost 200,000 digital images for institutional use in Art History (log in with your GC Network ID).