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David Canfield Postcard Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-008
Content Description This collection consists of over 10,000 postcards collected by Rochester native David "Josh" Canfield from 1966 to 2021. The extensive collection includes numerous variant printings and private issues. The majority of this material consists of historic postcards showing diverse locations in Rochester with a large quantity of the collection printed by Stecher Lithographic Company, a local business in Rochester. In addition to this, a series of modern postcards can be found which consist of...
Dates: 1874-2003, undated

David D. Emert and Jon P. Templin collection on the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus and ImageOut Film Festival

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2017-017
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers collected by David Emert, Producer of the ImageOut! Film Festival and performer in the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus. The materials date between 1989 and 2013. The materials consist of programs, budgets, meeting minutes, and planning materials for the ImageOut! Film Festival, programs, photographs, and articles regarding the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus, buttons and pins, and posters.

Dates: 1989-2013

David Kyle Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-013
Content Description This collection consists of materials collected by Rochesterian David Kyle through his interest in local history and employment by Gutenberg Books. The materials include several different groups of items, only some of which are retained in the final David Kyle collection. The collection includes issues of the Tool Post (Consolidated Machine Tool Corp.) from February 1943 to November 1947, a Haloid Xerox box, photographs, trade publications, ephemera and 67 postcards. Also present are a small...
Dates: 1906-1968, undated

Day family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2018-028
Abstract

This collection contains a series of letters written to and from the Day family between the years of 1902-1958. The letters detail intimate and personal views of the family's life, especially living in the 1940's.

Dates: Inclusive Dates, 1902-1958; Majority of material found within Bulk of collection 1931-1946

Dellon Marcus Dewey Albums

 Collection — Volume: 1-4
Identifier: 2020-032
Content Description

This collection consists of four albums compiled by by Dellon Marcus Dewey, a prolific early Rochester writer and bookseller. The albums are collections of plates or descriptive materials related to Rochester's nursery industry. Only one book is dated (1872), but all presumably come from this time period.

Dates: 1872, undated

Denonville Expedition Pageant papers

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: 2024-018
Abstract

This collection consists of various papers including: a pageant script, drawings, a cast of characters, and stage plans.

Dates: 1937

Diane Riley Postcard Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2021-009
Content Description

This collection consists of 46 vintage postcards of the Rochester, NY area, collected by Diane Riley. One series is addressed to Charles and Ione Gitchel of Portageville, New York.

Dates: 1909; undated.

District Board Division Number 2 Western Federal Judicial District, State of New York Records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2024-009
Content Description This collection consists of records of the operations of the District Board Division Number 2 Western Federal Judicial District, State of New York - the World War I selective service board for the Rochester area. The collection consists of sample forms, documents, publications, regulations and other materials related to the operations of the selective service system. Also included are newspaper clippings and photographs of war materiel produced in the Rochester area. Materials in the...
Dates: 1917-1918

Donovan Shilling Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-025
Content Description This collection consists of diverse materials created and collected by Donovan Shilling. Shilling, a historian, story teller and antiquarian, assembled extensive personal collections of documents, ephemera and realia to support his research into and writing on the history of the Rochester, New York area. This collection consists of the documentary and ephemera portions of his collection, along with notes and typescripts for his books and presentations on local history. The collection...
Dates: Circa 1826 to 2020

Dr. Alice Holloway Young Interviews

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2021-006
Content Description Dr. Alice Holloway Young was a pioneering African-American educator and administrator with the Rochester City School District and a founding trustee of Monroe Community College. This collection consists of 5 .WAV audio files containing interviews with Dr. Alice Holloway Young conducted by Christine Christopher in July and August of 2018. The interviews provide wide-ranging autobiographical information about Dr. Young. The collection also includes transcripts of interviews carried out by...
Dates: July-August 2018; September 2, 1998

Dr. Anthony C. Scinta scrapbook collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2017-005
Content Description

Two scrapbooks containing clippings photographs concerning the political career of Dr. Anthony C. Scinta, a member of Rochester City Council starting in 1933. Dr. Scinta, a noted local medical professional, was a reform-oriented Democrat who emphasized the need to reform City government. He was especially interested in the reform of the City's welfare practices.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1911 - 1936

Dr. Charles Forbes Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2020-033
Content Description Scrapbooks and papers of Dr. Charles Forbes, a physician, scientist and inventor born in Kendall, New York. He was best known for inventing an individual communion cup, but this was only one of numerous inventions and apparatus he created. Forbes taught at Macalester College and at Columbia University, along with operating several business enterprises. The materials in in this collection include two scrapbooks, along with loose scraps and newspaper clippings regarding his inventions. These...
Dates: 1915-1917, undated

Dr. Julian Webb papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2024-012
Abstract

this collection consists of two books titled "Atomic Energy" and "The Effects of Atomic Weapons", and a letter to Dr. Julian Webb from Lt. Col. John R. Ruhoff.

Dates: 1945-1950

Dyer D. S. Brown Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2014-056
Scope and Contents

Dyer D. S. Brown was a Rochester, New York lawyer This collection includes incoming correspondence to Dyer D. S. Brown regarding law career, family and personal matters, and Rochester Daily Democrat business. Many letters regard his activity in politics; Brown served as a delegate to several Republican Conventions. He was also involved in the establishment of the Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburgh Railway. Materials in the collection date between 1846 and 1884, with te bulk from 1874 to 1884.

Dates: 1846-1884, n.d.; 1874 - 1884

Ebeneser Bowen account books

 Collection — Carton: 1
Identifier: 2024-056
Content Description

Consists of 15 ledgers and account books for Ebeneser Bowen documenting service and labor performed and 1 volume ledger for Bowensburg Saw Mill.

Dates: 1831-1865

Ebenezer "Indian" Allan Land Contract and Ledger

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: 2014-035
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a deed for the 100-acre tract, including existing mills, dated 1792 and signed by Ebenezer Allan. It also contains a ledger book allegedly used by Allan; this association is not proven and provenance is lacking.

Dates: Deed is from 1792. Ledger is ca. 1800.

Edith Willis Linn Forbes papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2024-039
Content Description

The papers consist of a play script, event programs, correspondence, and published poems.

Dates: 1880-1923

Edna Dean Willson Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-041
Dates: 1881-1918

Edward C. Widman collection of World War I letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2019-024
Abstract

This collection consists of letters received by Edward C. Widman, Chief Clerk of the Rochester, New York Bureau of Design and Construction, during the First World War. The letters were sent from his co-workers in military service between 1917 and 1920.

Dates: 1917-1920

Edwin Rumball Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2015-016
Content Description

Papers of Rev. Edwin Rumball related to his speech, "Population: An Address" and his addresses to the annual "Welcome Feast," 1910-1914.

Dates: 1910-1914

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