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Rochester Business and Professional Women's Club Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-012
Content Description

This collection consists of the records of the Rochester Business and Professional Women's Club, a social and professional organization that operated in Rochester from 1919 until approximately 2004. The organization provided networking and professional development opportunities for its members, along with organizing social events. Materials in the collection span the period 1919 to 2013. They include scrapbooks, photo albums, a presidents' notebook, and numerous records of the treasurer.

Dates: 1923-2004?

Rochester Business Institute Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2015-006
Abstract

This collection consists of the records of the Rochester Business Institute dating from 1887 to 2016. The records are comprised of school newspapers, faculty and staff correspondences, course catalogs and other school publications, yearbooks, textbooks, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Dates: 1863-2013

Rochester Centennial Committees on Arrangements Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-028
Content Description This collection consists of four volumes. Three are identified as "The Committees on Arrangements: Their Meetings, Figures and Reports." These volumes contain committee membership lists, meeting minutes, typescripts of editorial submissions and publicity, budgets, and other documentation of the Rochester Centennial Arrangements Committee. The final volume is a photographic album containing images of the Rochester Centennial celebrations. The volumes date between June 25, 1933 and November 1,...
Dates: March 29, 1933-April 8, 1935

Rochester Civic Garden Center Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-010
Abstract

This collection consists of the records and news coverage of the Rochester Civic Garden Center acquired from the Center when it downsized upon its closure in 2018. The materials consist of scrapbooks, newspapers and magazines, posters and maps, photo albums, and published books dating between 1881 and 2013 on gardens and green spaces in the Rochester area.

Dates: 1880-2015

Rochester Community Players Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2013-003
Abstract The Rochester Community Players (RCP) collection represents the records of the oldest community theatre in New York State and one of the oldest continuously operated theater organizations in the United States. The collection includes almost nine cubic feet of photographs, negatives, and playbills from the majority of plays performed from 1925 to 1997, in addition to legal papers, reports, relocation proposals, printed material including history, awards, schedules, newsletters, and...
Dates: 1923-2022; 1924 - 2022

Rochester Council, Boy Scouts of America, Messenger Service Records

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: 2020-011
Content Description This collection consists of the records of the messenger service that the Rochester Council, Boy Scouts of America, operated as part of the Civil Defense of Rochester from 1942 to 1944. The records consist of meeting minutes, organizational charts and plans, and records of various civil defense drills with which the Boy Scout Messenger Service was involved. The records include in information on additional Boy Scout activities in support of civil defense during World War II, including their...
Dates: 1941-1944

Rochester Cycling Club Records

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2015-012
Scope and Contents This collection consists of records of the Rochester Cycling Club between 1968 and 1976. The records, as accessioned, consist of: - Folder: “Rochester Bicycling Club”: riding schedules, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976; map set, 1969; schedule 1972 - 3-ring folder (black): “A Proposal for a Bicycle Track (Velodrome) for Rochester and Monroe County” 1971 - 3-ring binder (blue): Copy of South-East Weekly Journal; newsletters, memos, membership lists, etc. of the Rochester...
Dates: 1968-1976

Rochester Department of Health & Milk Inspection Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-069
Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of materials relating to Rochester Health Bureau, particularly Chief Milk Inspector W. O. Marshall. It includes correspondence of W.O. Marshall (Chief Milk Inspector) and the Health Bureau. 1910-1911; 1913; 1916-1920, including one letter to George Goler. It also includes 54 lantern slides of Education Exhibition in 1912. The materials as a whole date between 1910 and 1918,

Dates: 1910-1918

Rochester Family Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-064
Abstract

The Rochester Family Papers span the years 1788 to 1881 and include deeds, correspondence, receipts, and bills belonging to members of the Rochester family. Of special note is a piece of Sophia Rochester's wedding dinner dress underskirt. The collection also includes Col. Nathaniel Rochester's 1831 handwritten will, an inventory of his estate, and deeds and indentures regarding his many land dealings. A copy of Rochester's 1830 will is also included.

Dates: 1788-1881; 1812 - 1881

Rochester Gas and Electric Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014.001-2014.002-2014.003
Abstract

This collection consists of the records of the Rochester New York based gas and electric company, RG&E (Rochester Gas and Electric). The materials date between 1860 and 1998, with a bulk of the materials dated between 1905 and 1970. The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, administrative documents, diagrams, and maps.

Dates: 1863-1998

Rochester Leaflet: First Steps Toward Citizenship

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-016
Abstract

This collection consists of a single, fragile leaflet used as a text for Americanization courses taught in the Rochester City Schools during the 1920s.

Dates: Circa 1919-1931.

Rochester Licensed Drug Clerks Association Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2020-039
Content Description

The Rochester Licensed Drug Clerks Association was established in 1885 as a professional organization for licensed pharmacists in the city of Rochester, New York. Materials in the collection include letters and documents related to the foundation of the organization, the organization's first minute book, and a notebook recording druggists who operated in Rochester between 1873 and 1905 (including tipped-in labels). The collection dates between 1873 and 1905.

Dates: 1873-1905

Rochester Municipal Archives Deposit

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-001
Scope and Contents The Rochester Municipal Archives Deposit consists of materials on deposit with the Local History & Genealogy Division of the Rochester Public Library by the Rochester Municipal Archives. As such, these materials have not been accessioned by the Rochester Public Library; the library provides them with an appropriate preservation environment and access point. The deposit consists of fragile ledger books containing records from multiple City of Rochester departments, including the Fire...
Dates: 1827-1934

Rochester (N.Y.) sports memorabilia collection

 Collection — Box: 1-7
Identifier: 2018-003
Abstract This collection consists of Rochester, New York sports memorabilia collected by Rochester, New York based lawyer, Loren Kroll. The materials date between 1946 and 2013. The materials consist of game programs, tickets, photographs, and 3-D objects from the Rochester Red Wings, Syracuse Orange, Rochester Royals, other Rochester, New York based major and minor league teams, as well as national games and championships. Additional material includes Rochester Royals programs donated by the Buffalo...
Dates: 1946-2013

Rochester (N.Y.) Theater Programs Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2016-002
Abstract

This is an artificial collection of motion picture and live theatre programs and associated ephemera collected from various sources. The materials date from 1856 to 2023 and provide a snapshot of Rochester's cultural scene over a century and a half. Many of the 19th century materials were donated by Friedrich H. Haak.

Dates: 1856-2023

Rochester Patriot Records

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2015-004
Scope and Contents

One folder of documents related to the business operations of the Rochester Patriot, an independent newspaper that published bi-monthly. The materials date between 1973 and 1986.

Dates: 1973-1986

Rochester Preschool Parent Program Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-004
Content Description

This collection consists of records from the Rochester Preschool Parent Program. Originally known as the Guided Observation Program, it operated from 1937 to 2018 as a pre-kindergarten program within the Rochester City School District. The collection consists of documents, photographs, 35mm slides, and two scrapbooks.

Dates: 1936-2012; Majority of material found within 1965-1997

Rochester Preservation Board Records

 Collection — Box: 1-6
Identifier: 2012.011
Dates: 1966-2001; Majority of material found within Bulk 1966-1979

Rochester Public Library Communications/Graphics Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-059
Scope and Contents

The Rochester Public Library Communications/Graphics Department provides advertising and other graphic design services across the Rochester Public Library. Materials in the collection include programming, City sesquicentennial, building design, clippings, miscellaneous. Also includes some Rochester Images materials (late 1990s-2000s) in Box 2. Materials in the collection date from 1974 to 2002.

Dates: 1974-2002

Rochester Public Library Local History Division Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-054
Scope and Content Note

The Local History Division of the Rochester Public Library is responsible for maintaining collections on and providing public services related to the history of Rochester, New York and the surrounding area. Materials in the collection consist of annual reports and budgets. They date from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Dates: 1936-1993

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