Volume 17

The McBride collection consists of materials collected by Dan McBride as part of the research carried out for his book. In The Finest Tradition. It consists primarily of scrapbooks assembled by various fire houses around Rochester, N. Y., between 1945 and 1975. Other materials include photographs, clippings, art work and loose scrapbook leaves dating from 1860 to 2022. The third series comprises McBride's research notes and image file collection for the book.

Scrapbooks, loose scrapbook leaves, newspaper clippings and other materials related to the history of the Rochester Fire Department in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The scrapbooks were produced by various fire houses throughout the City of Rochester (hence overlapping dates), but it has not proved possible to determine which fire house produced any individual book. The third series consists of notes and images collected by Dan McBride in researching In The Finest Tradition.