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Robert Bruce Horsfall Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-008
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of Robert Bruce Horsfall, a noted nature artist who lived in Egypt, New York, in retirement. The materials date between 1869 and 1948. They consist of

Dates: 1869-1948

Robert Dardano papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-008
Abstract Robert (Bob) Dardano (Jr.) was active in several gay and lesbian civil rights organizations in Rochester, NY in the 1980s, including the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley and in writing and publishing The Empty Closet magazine. Dardano also contributed volunteer efforts to the first political campaign of Rochester City Councilman Tim Mains in 1985. This collection consists of personal papers collected or created by Dardano in the course of these activities,...
Dates: 1983-2005; Majority of material found within 1984-1986

Robert Eisele Photographs

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: 2024-060
Content Description

This collection consists of 21 photographic prints and 1 album of photographs from the early life of Robert E. Eisele of Rochester, New York. The photographs document Eisele's childhood and youth in Rochester, while the album covers his time as a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934-1935, working with Company 1265 in the development of what are now known as Buttermilk Falls and R. H. Treman State Parks.

Dates: 1923-1953, undated

Robert N. Abbott Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2008-001
Abstract

The Robert N. Abbott Collection consists of Abbott's personal papers, speeches, a 1934 yearbook, a scrapbook, testimony and correspondence regarding his time as a prisoner of war in Korea, court documents pertaining to his death in a 1964 helicopter crash, Monroe County Civil Defense newsletters, newspaper clippings, documents pertaining to WWII service, photographs.

Dates: 1934-1968

Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2019-019
Abstract

This collection consists of records of the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad. The records date from 1853 to 1913. They include letters, memoranda, fiscal records, annual reports to Federal and New York State government agencies, records of stock sales, a stock transfer book, and stock certificates.

Dates: 1853-1913

Rochester Area Educational Television Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2013-005
Abstract The records of the Rochester Area Educational Television Association (RAETA), which date between the years 1951 and 1979, describe the organization's efforts to establish an educational television station in Rochester, New York. The collection includes committee, trustee, and membership records, program guides, FCC court dockets, board minutes, and correspondence. The fight to obtain Channel 13 is well-documented, as is RAETA's subsequent decision to withdraw their petition as it became...
Dates: 1951-1979; 1962 - 1967

Rochester Art Club Minute Books

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-040
Content Description

The Rochester Art Club is one of the oldest continuously active art organizations in the United States. This collection consists of four minute books from the Club's first 5 decades of existence, along with one folder of addenda. These materials date from 1877 to 1930.

Dates: 1877-1930

Rochester Arts & Lectures Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2020-044
Content Description The Rochester Arts & Lectures series brought authors and artists of national and international renown to speak in Rochester from 1989 to 2017. Founded by Rosemary Mancini and Susan Feinstein, the series continued through multiple changes of leadership for nearly three decades. This artificial collection brings together multiple donations from former leaders of Rochester Arts & Lectures. Each series within the collection represents an accession or accessions from one of these donors....
Dates: 1989-2010?

Rochester Athletic Club Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-030
Content Description

Notes, ephemera, receipts for annual dues, and incorporation share receipts from the Rochester Athletic Club, 1888 to 1894. The collection also includes receipts from stock sales in the Rochester Athletic Association from 1877. It is unclear how these materials came to be intermingled in this collection, as the two organizations do not appear to have been connected in any way.

Dates: 1873-1894

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.

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