College and Local Newspapers

The current three months of The Oswegonian is available on the 2nd floor, Journal Collection. Physical copies starting in 1936 can be accessed through the Archives & Special Collections department located in Room 8 of Penfield Library.

Digitized editions of The Oswegonian covering June 1935 through April 2010 is available online through the New York Historic Newspapers website at http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/np00010011/.

 

Front page of The Oswegonian student newspaper

Local newspapers are available on microfilm on the 2nd floor, Periodicals.

Digitized editions of historical Oswego County newspapers can be access through the New York Historic Newspapers website https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/titles/places/new_york/oswego/.

Some local newspaper titles of note include:

  • The Daily Palladium (1890-1908)
  • The Fulton Patriot (1892-current)
  • Mexico Independent (1874-1972)
  • The Oswego Daily Palladium (1851-1887 and 1889-1890)
  • The Oswego  Palladium (1887-1889, 1908-1925)

Yearbooks

The Archives & Special Collections department maintains a collection of student yearbooks from the Oswego Normal School and SUNY Oswego. The call number is Reference LB 1921 O72. They include:

  • Oshwakee (1919) 
  • Class Book (1921)
  • The Normalian (1922-1926) 
  • The Ontarian (1927-1971, 1973-2001 and 2005)

The Normalian (1922-1926) and The Ontarian (1927-2005) are available online through New York Heritage Digital Collections at https://nyheritage.org/collections/ontarian-yearbooks.

Cover of The Normalian yearbook 1922 Cover of The Ontarian yearbook 1955

The Vocationist

The Vocationist was produced by the Industrial Arts Department from 1912 to 1939. The Vocationist was described as, "A practical magazine devoted to education, particularly mechanic arts, agriculture, and home-making." and contains information of historical and institutional value from the 1910s and 1920s at the Oswego Normal School. Digitized issues of The Vocationist are located in HathiTrust, which are searchable. 

Volumes include:

 

College Publications

Past issues of college catalogs, bulletins and directories are located in Special Collections.  For more information regarding college publications please inquire via Special Collections email - archives@oswego.edu

Or utilize the inquiry form - https://ww1.oswego.edu/library/ask-archives-special-collections​