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Travelers' Club of Rochester Records
The Travelers' Club of Rochester was a women's study club dedicated to discussing travel and history. The materials in the collection include programs, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings. Bound books of minutes, 1916-1965. Overall collection dates are from 1893 to 1985.
United Service Organizations (U.S.O.) Rochester Records
This collection consists of the records of the Rochester, N.Y., operations of the United Services Organizations during the Second World War. Materials in this collection include activities programs, newsletters, publications, correspondence, blueprints, negatives, and photographs. The materials date between 1943 and 1946.
University of Rochester Medical School Glass Plate Negative Collection
This collection documents photographically public health concerns in Rochester, New York from the late 1890s to the early 1920s. The materials consist of photographs, film negatives, glass plate negatives, and one scrapbook. Photos of the milk station, Hope Hospital, and the municipal hospital are included. Possibly taken by George Goler to document sanitary conditions.
Of special note: Scrapbook of photos of smallpox victims at Hope Hospital (Box 8).
Urbanarium Records
The Urbanarium Records document a local citizens’ organization that operated in the 1970s through the early 1980s to address community needs and opportunities in the greater Rochester area. The collection includes reports, correspondence, charts, financial records, meeting minutes, scrapbooks, negatives and contact sheets documenting the organization’s planning phase, administrative and financial operations, and programs.
Van Huysen collection
This collection includes multiple folders full of loose recipe pages, clippings, and a recipe book. Also included are: two letters, an account book, a Methodist sewing circle meeting book, a rochester poll list, the diary of a Civil War soldier, and receipts and statements.
Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Genesee Valley Chapter records
This collection consists of the records for the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Genesee Valley Chapter. The materials date between 1944 and 2009, with a bulk of the materials dated between 1998 and 2009. The materials consists of meeting minutes, financial records, administrative documents, newspaper articles, events, and newsletters.
Victory Book Campaign Collection
The Victory Book Campaign was a national book drive coordinated by libraries to provide reading material for soldiers. This collection consists of documents, photographs, newspaper clippings and other materials recording the Victory Book Campaign of 1942, along with promotional materials and photographs from both the 1942 and 1943 campaigns.
Villnow family photographs
This collection consists of photographs taken by a member or members of the Villnow family of Rochester, New York. The photographs consist of 114 glass plate negatives, containing images of family, friends and Rochester, New York-area scences. The images are dated from 1910 and 1911.
Virginia Jeffrey Smith papers
Waad Hakolel (Stonewood Avenue) and Britton Road Cemetery Records
Ward Family papers
This collection consists of records from mulitple members of the Ward family of Rochester, New York, including Levi Ward, Jr., Levi A. Ward, Ferdinand DeWilton Ward and Mary Ward. The materials include letters, bills, deeds and a diary. They date from 1803 to 1891.
Wayne Building Loan and Accumulating Fund Association records
This collections consists of various reciept books and forms, payment books, reports, and papers associated with the Wayne Building Loan and Accumulating Fund Association in Palmyra N.Y.
Weider and Shone family papers
This collection includes a series of papers documenting the average consumer goods that would often be purchased by a middle class family during the early 1900's.
Whitelaw Roemer Photograph Collection
This collection consists of papers and photographs of Whitelaw Roemer. The materials date from 1906-1975, with the bulk of the collection from 1965-1975. The collection consists of art photographs, journalistic photographs, and personal photographs.
William F. Quinn papers
This collection consists of the papers, including autobiographical and esoteric writings, of William F. Quinn. Quinn, who resided for most of his life in Rochester, New York, did not date many of his writings; those that are dated come from 1950.
William G. Watson letter
Photocopy of a letter from William G. Watson, of the Rochester Clearing House Association, to the Rochester Historical Society. Dated December 27, 1936, the letter explains details of the Rundel estate that had been in controversy and includes his reminiscences of Mr. Rundel in his later years.
William Giancursio Collection on the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus
William Giancursio was the artistic designer for the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus that was founded in 1982. The collection include one t-shirt commemorating the joint performance of Toronto Gay Men's Chorus and the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus at Nazareth College Arts Center on June 2, 1990. The collection also include 13 Rochester Gay Men's Chorus posters.
William H. Gorsline Records
This collection consists of the records of Rochester, New York based building contractor, William Henry Gorsline. The materials date between 1872 and 1889. The records are comprised of invoices, building contracts, and checks.
William Hollister correspondence
Consists of correspondence to Hollister and Churchill relating to the lumber business.
William J. Pearce Papers
The William J. Pearce papers consist of materials related to Pearce’s career in educational television. The papers, which date from the 1950s to the 1990s, also include Pearce’s military service, his involvement with the Philosophers’ Club, his long history in public television, and his passion for Native American culture, which can be seen in his work with the Friends of Ganondagan and the Native American Public Telecommunications. Pearce is the recipient of two Peabody Awards.