Chamber of Commerce (Rochester, N.Y.)

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of the Badger family, a white Rochester family. Robert A Badger was the vice-president and treasurer of Curtice Brothers Company and president of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce (1906). His papers in this collection date between 1891 and 1926. They consist of correspondence. His wife, Ella Louise Smith Badger, is represented by her childhood diaries. Their daughter, Lois Badger, is represented by material on her travels, writing and charitable...

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.

Content Description

This collection consists of 75 35mm slides. The slides include images of branches of the Rochester Public Library system; architectural design work by James H. Johnson on the Phyllis Wheatley Branch Library, and a set of promotion slides created by the Rochester Chamber of Commerce.

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.

Abstract

This series is comprised of Rochester City Historian Blake McKelvey's research notes used to write his four volume history of Rochester, New York. The materials were assembled between 1937 and 1970. The series includes handwritten transcriptions of newspaper articles and journals; newspaper clippings, source and illustration citations, pamphlets, and notes.