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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.
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

Dick Halsey Collection on Plutonium Injections in Rochester

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2025-009
Content Description Dick Halsey is a Rochester-area genealogist and historian who was contacted in 1993 by journalist Eileen Welsome of the Albuquerque Tribune for assistance in researching the individuals who received plutonium injections in Rochester at Strong Hospital in 1945 and 1946. The collection consists of newspaper extracts, both from her work and from Rochester-area coverage of these largely unknown experiments, and a concluding reportin which Halsey both documents his role in the project and pays...
Dates: 1975-2025; Majority of material found within 1993-1999
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

Dignity-Integrity Rochester Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2025-037
Abstract This collection consists of the records of Dignity-Integrity Rochester, a religious organization based in Rochester, New York. The materials date between 1975 and 2025. The records are comprised of administrative records, personnel papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, event flyers, schedules, bulletins, liturgies, photographs, membership records, conference proceedings, meeting minutes, newsletters, homilies, scrapbooks, CDs, audiocassettes, realia, ephemera, published materials...
Dates: 1975-2024
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

District 1 Irondequoit Library catalog

 Collection — Carton: A01
Identifier: 2025-044
Content Description

Consists of list of books held by the Irondequoit Library.

Dates: 1846
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

Dr. Charles A. Van DerBeek Medical Journal

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2026-006
Content Description

This collection consists of a diary and journal kept by Dr. Charles A. Van DerBeek between 1894-1897

Dates: 1894 - 1897
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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.
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

Edna Dean Willson Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-041
Dates: 1881-1918
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

Eli M. Upton Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-010
Scope and Contents

Letters, receipts, and personal papers. Most of the material relates to Upton's wholesale business. The material in this collection dates from 1886 and 1888.

Dates: 1886, 1888
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

Elizabeth Caley Copson manuscripts

 Collection — Folder: 1-2
Identifier: 2024-022
Dates: c. 1958-1969
Found in: Local History & Genealogy Division

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