Greater Oneonta
Historical Society
P.O. Box 814
Oneonta, NY 13820

Words and Pictures

Oneonta - Life Enjoyed Videos:

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Kitchen Table Conversations: Oral Histories

Collier's article on Bresee's (Nov. 1949) - 5.5 MB, full color, searchable

Gordon Manning, "We're Telling You, Macy's" ("Gimbel's may not tell Macy's-but why shouldn't Bresee's? They're proud of their success formula: Old-fashioned, friendly service streamlined for 1949"), Collier's, p. 26-41, 12 November 1949. (A special thank you to Dana Bresee for loaning her copy of Collier's for scanning. Scanned by Joseph P. Campbell, Jr. (j.campbell@ieee.org), March 2011.)

Oneonta City Directories

1941-1942 (complete, for downloading) - 44 MB, full color, searchable

To view online, choose one of these sections:

1941-1942 (Front Matter, pages 0-32 only) - 6 MB, full color, searchable

1941-1942 (Oneonta Directory, pages 33-128 only) - 24 MB, full color, searchable

1941-1942 (Street Directory, pages 131-156 only) - 9 MB, full color, searchable

1941-1942 (Business Directory, pages 157-203 only) - 7 MB, full color, searchable

“Manning's Oneonta including Oneonta Plains, East End, South Side, and West Oneonta and Sidney, Bainbridge, Unadilla (New York) Directory,” 1941-1942, Vol. XXIX, H.A. Manning Co. Publishers, Schenectady, NY, 1942. “A General Directory of the Citizens, Classified Business Directory, Street Directory and House Guides, and Map, a Record of the City, County, State and United States Governments, Societies, Churches, Etc.” (This particular directory is from the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society, Oneonta, NY, a gift of J. B. Jackson.)

Scanned by Joseph P. Campbell, Jr. (j.campbell@ieee.org), March 2011. Optical character recognition (OCR) is applied to enable text search, which is extremely useful for research and discovery on the web, but beware of OCR errors (text searches might not match precisely – try partial phrases, words, etc.).

Notes: 1) Scan settings 300 dpi, 11 3/8" x 9" size (3401 x 2691 pixels). 2) OCR via Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. 3) Pages 129-130 missing from directory book. 4) Pages 146-147 (238-549 Main St., 2-95 Maple St.) not scanned, but photographed (lower quality than other pages). 5) Pages 204-310 (Sidney, Bainbridge, Unadilla) not scanned.