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Unadilla Public Library

Unadilla, New York

Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Unadilla.

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Explore publications and collections from the past.

1857 to 2016Dates represented

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77,756Archive pages

Historical pages reported for this collection.

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Discover the people, places, and stories of Unadilla, New York.

Explore the past of Unadilla, New York through newspapers as well as yearbooks and annuals in the Unadilla Public Library's digital archive. Its four titles include material from 1857 to 2016.

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  • Selected titles

    The titles shared by Unadilla Public Library include “Unadilla High School Yearbooks” and “Unadilla Times”.

  • Free and open access

    No subscription or payment required.

  • Different views of the past

    Newspaper pages connect individual accounts with a wider story, preserving how events were reported and presented to the readers of the day. Yearbooks and annuals bring together the people and activities their editors chose to remember, offering a view of life within a particular year.

Reporting from the time can reveal how people described the events, work and concerns of their day, placing a local story within the history unfolding around it. Whether you are tracing a family connection, exploring a local event or sharing history with a class, there is more to discover than names and dates alone. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.

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Titles in this collection

Browse four titles and 77,756 digitized pages, with material from 1857 to 2016. This collection is shared through Unadilla Public Library's partnership with Advantage Archives. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.

Every search for the past starts with a question. Explore the titles below, follow the sources that speak to it, and see what new detail appears.

The Unadilla Times

58,570 pages from 1857 to 1967

Unadilla High School Yearbooks

846 pages from 1933 to 1951

Unadilla Times

800 pages from 1881 to 1966

Unategan Yearbooks

17,540 pages from 1951 to 2016

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About the Library

About The Unadilla Public Library

The Unadilla Public Library provides materials and services that cater to a variety of age groups. With a commitment to serving the community, the library offers a wide range of resources and programs designed to meet the educational, cultural, and recreational needs of its patrons.

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Library History

The History Of The Unadilla Public Library

The Unadilla Public Library has been a cornerstone of the community for many years, offering a wide range of resources and programs to support lifelong learning and community engagement. The library's digital archives, created in partnership with Advantage Archives, ensure that valuable historical resources are accessible to all.

About the Community

About Unadilla, New York

Unadilla, located in Otsego County, New York, is a town rich in history and community spirit. Known for its picturesque landscapes and historical significance, Unadilla has played an important role in the region's development. The Unadilla Public Library serves as a key resource for residents, offering access to a wealth of historical documents and supporting educational and recreational needs.

Local History

Did You Know?

Did you know that the Unadilla Public Library's digital archive includes The Unadilla Times, which has been in publication from 1857 to 1967? This extensive collection provides a valuable window into the past of Unadilla and its surrounding areas, offering invaluable resources for historians and genealogists.

More ways to explore and share local history

Research Guidance

Look beyond a familiar name

Yearbooks and annuals preserve selected views of a time in Unadilla. Follow a name or organization through a dated volume in the yearbooks and annuals shared by the Unadilla Public Library, and keep the publication's perspective visible as you ask what other sources might add. Read the publication as one historical voice; it can illuminate a community without speaking for everyone who lived there.

Where the available dates overlap, use a name, activity, or organization in a yearbook or annual as a starting point for a newspaper search. Compare the details carefully; a similar name is a lead to investigate, not an identification by itself.

Keep the title, date, page or item reference with each useful finding. Separate the words in a historical account from your interpretation, and note conflicting perspectives rather than choosing one too quickly. These notes help you connect a local story to its evidence and explain what remains uncertain.

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Community Partnership

Keeping local history a community resource

This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Unadilla Public Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.

Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.

Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.

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Read All About It

Stories, research tips, and archive news

Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.

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March 18, 2025

It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?

We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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