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Captain Richard Langslow's transcripts

 Collection — Folder: 1-3
Identifier: 2024-026
Dates: 1817

Carey H. Brown Papers

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5-7
Identifier: 2014-034
Scope and Contents

Carey H. Brown was a former Chamber of Commerce committee chair and secretary of the Rochester Civic Improvement Association. Materials in this collection are related to city and industiral planning, largely in the context of the National Industrial Recovery Administration and the Public Works Administration during the New Deal era. They date from 1933 to 1935. They include memoranda, reports, and other administrative documents.

Dates: 1933, 1935, n.d.

Carlo E. De Santis Slide Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-018
Content Description This collection consists of 478 35mm Ektachrome and Kodachrome slides, housed in 24 slide protector pages, taken by Carlo E. De Santis in the 1970s and 1980s. A physician and architecture enthusiast, De Santis' slides depict buildings, street scenes and architectural details in the Rochester, New York area. The collection is in original order; De Santis did not have a formal arrangement for the collection outside of occasionally grouping images of the same type of building (such as churches)...
Dates: ca. 1970-1990; the slides are undated but contextual clues, such as automobiles and people's clothing, point to this date range.

Carson family papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2024-010
Abstract

This collection consists of various documents from the Carson family including: Birth Certificate of Dorothy Carson, a Mortgage certificate, Deeds, and a gift from Adella Lampert Carson and Delight Carson. The contents dating from between 1851 to 1890.

Dates: 1851-1890

Charles Kittredge papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2019-023
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of Reverend Charles Kittredge, a Presbyterian minister in Greece, New York. The records were created between 1793 and 1889. They consist of letters, school papers, and professional documents related to his career in the ministry.

Dates: 1793-1889; Undated

Charles Meinert Collection on Cycling in 19th Century Rochester

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: 2020-031
Content Description

This collection consists of materials assembled by Dr. Charles Meinert in his research on cycling in 19th century Rochester, New York. The materials include notes, articles, images, newspaper articles and ephemera (many are photocopies of the originals), along with the typescripts of his publications. There are detailed files on two major local cycling personalities of the time - Reuben Punnet and Elsa Von Blumen. The materials date from 1869 to 1996.

Dates: 1869-1996

Charles Perkins papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2019-028
Abstract

This collection consists of papers from early Rochester lawyer Charles Perkins, dating between 1825 and 1850. The papers include letters, deeds and other legal documents.

Dates: 1825-1866; Majority of material found within 1825-1850

Chester and Charles A. Dewey Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2020-022
Content Description

This collection consists of two scrapbooks, two notebooks and one folder housing the papers of Doctors Chester and Charles A. Dewey, father and son. Chester's papers include materials on botany, zoology and the Ayrault family (collateral relatives of his wife Olivia), while Charles' papers are concerned with local history and genealogy.

Dates: 1840-1907, Undated

Children's Alliance of Monroe County Records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2014-047
Scope and Contents

The Children's Alliance of Monroe County was a child welfare organization in Monroe County, New York. Its records consist of minutes, correspondence, board member lists, bylaws, press releases, records of the State Youth Advocacy Workshop. They date from 1977 to 1984.

Dates: 1977-1984

Children's Playground League records

 Collection — Box: 1-2, Volume: 1-3
Identifier: 2019-038
Abstract

This collection consists of the records of the Children's Playground League, a citizen's group that promoted and assisted in developing municipal playgrounds in the city of Rochester, N. Y. The contents of the collection date from 1903 to 1913. The records include letters, other documents, reports, ledger books and lantern slides.

Dates: 1903-1913

Citizens Committee to Study Public Welfare in Rochester and Monroe County Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-023
Content Description

This collection consists of correspondence, reports and meeting minutes of the Citizens Committee to Study Public Welfare in Rochester and Monroe County Collection. The materials date from 1936 and 1937.

Dates: 1936-1937

City Club of Rochester Records

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: 2014-023
Scope and Content Note These records represent a range of items documenting the activities of the City Club of Rochester, including the club's constitution, lists of officers, speakers and programs, correspondence, financial records, member lists, publicity items, and papers documenting the club’s history. Described in one piece of correspondence as “a forum for enlightened discussion on important topics,” the City Club of Rochester was founded in 1909 as a weekly luncheon forum, a format...
Dates: 1909-1972

Civil War Prisoner Ledger

 Item — Volume: 1
Identifier: 2015-021
Scope and Content

Ledger from a Union prison in Alexandria, Virginia, that documents the transgressions of Union soldiers. Includes prisoners' name, regiment, company, charges, charging official, and remarks. Includes prisoners from the following regiments: 5 NY, 16 NY, 109 NY, 28 MA, Colored, 11 US, 44 NY, 3 MD, 112PA, 15 CT, and many others.

Dates: April 13, 1864-May 16, 1864

Cohen family collection on the Workmen's Circle

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: 2017-025
Abstract

This collection consists of materials related to the Rochester Workmen's Circle and its founder, Harry Z. Cohen. These materials date between 1961 and 1973, and include newspaper clippings, a typescript history of the organization, event programs and other ephemera.

Dates: 1961 - 1973

Collection of Backus family papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2024-044
Content Description

This collection consists of papers of the Backus family and includes genealogy hand written and typed, and the "Memorables of the Montgomeries" manuscript. It also includes a daguerreotype of Gerrit Fitzhugh Backus and his mother. the collection also contains a copy of "Sonnets of War and Peace and Other Poems" by Thomas Rochester Shepard, 1929. The book is signed by Thomas Rochester Shepard to Mr. and Mrs. Backus.

Dates: 1866-1881, 1929

Collection of Bills and Receipts

 Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: 2019-015
Abstract

This is an artificial collection comprised of bills and receipts collected by the Rochester Public Library's Local History Division over several decades. The materials in the collection date between 1808 and 1971, and represent hundreds of Rochester businesses.

Dates: Circa 1808 - 1961

Collection of Cabinet Card photographs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2019-044
Abstract

This collection consists of seven cabinet card photographs taken in Rochester, New York, circa 1885-1890. The cabinet cards are all anonymous portraits, but 6 of the 7 identify the photographer.

Dates: circa 1885-1890

Collection of Early Photographic Materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-002
Content Description This is an artificial collection consisting of early (pre-World War I) photographic material mostly from the Rochester, New York area. The collection contains cabinet cards, cartes de visite, photographic prints, and tin types dating from 1850 to 1910; along with copy negatives dated 1920 to 1970. Most subjects are unidentifiable, some are noted with the name of the subject. Many of the cartes de visite are images of civil war officers and other notables. This is a living collection and...
Dates: Circa 1850-1910

Collection of Lantern Slides of Early Rochester Maps

 Item — Box: 1-2
Identifier: 2020-002
Abstract

This collection consists of two sets of lantern slides of images of early maps of the Rochester area. A few slides show political cartoons and photographs of early Rochester. The origin of this collection and the date of its creation is unknown, but some of the maps and images contained therein may be unique.

Dates: Unknown.

Collection of Miscellaneous Glass Negatives & Lantern Slides

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2014-068
Scope and Contents

This is an artificial collection that provides a home for glass plate negatives and lantern slides that lack provenance. The collection consists of two groups of materials: The first includes 23 glass negatives of the interior of a house on Mt. Hope Avenue and the people who lived there. The second contains 11 lantern slides depicting various European sites.

Dates: n.d.

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