This collection consists of individual bound manuscript volumes that stand alone and are not part of a manuscript collection. They include diaries, autograph albums, account books, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, and records of various organizations. The call number for each volume begins with CX followed by a number; the number represents the order in which the volume was cataloged.
The following list of the volumes includes the location number, name of the individual or organization that created the volume if known, title of the volume, date, number of volumes, description, and subject headings assigned to the volume. To locate a particular item, please use the keyword search function in your browser (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F).
Location: | CX 1 |
Name: | Samson, William Holland |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | Check list of books printed in Rochester before 1860, with notes on early Rochester printers, editors, and publishers |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester, NY -- Bibliography |
Subject heading 2: | Publishers |
Subject heading 3: | Printers |
Location: | CX 2 |
Name: | DePuy, Henry Farr |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | American Indian captivity: bibliographical notes. Negative photostat of original manuscript owned by the American Antiquarian Society |
Subject heading 1: | Indians of North America |
Subject heading 2: | DePuy, Henry Farr |
Location: | CX 3 |
Name: | Harwood, Edward |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1781 |
Description: | Catalogue of books from the library of Edward Harwood |
Subject heading 1: | Catalogues -- Library |
Subject heading 2: | Harwood, Edward |
Location: | CX 4 |
Name: | Unknown |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1850-1880 |
Description: | Autograph signatures of various Presidents, Cabinet members, Congressmen, and Supreme Court Justices |
Subject heading 1: | Autographs |
Subject heading 2: | Politicians |
Location: | CX 5 |
Name: | Lemcke, Ernest G. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1935 |
Description: | Includes mounted map, 3 mounted genealogies, tables |
Subject heading 1: | Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period |
Subject heading 2: | Maps |
Location: | CX 6 |
Name: | Bowles, William Lisle |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | Commonplace book kept by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), a British clergyman, poet and antiquary; published a 10-volume edition of the works of Alexander Pope |
Subject heading 1: | Commonplace Books |
Subject heading 2: | Bowles, William Lisle |
Location: | CX 7 |
Name: | Colvin, Martha D |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1845-1849 |
Description: | Autograph sentiments written by friends, several from Rochester's Clover Street Seminary including the founder Celestia Angenette Bloss. |
Subject heading 1: | Autographs |
Subject heading 2: | Clover Street Seminary |
Location: | CX 8 |
Name: | Webb, William Watson |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1878-1893 |
Description: | Personal account book of William Watson Webb (1850-1926) University of Rochester graduate (1871). An attorney, he was appointed to the position of Corporation Counsel of Rochester and from 1916 served as the associate judge of the NY Court of Claims |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Subject heading 2: | Attorneys |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY |
Location: | CX 9 |
Name: | Robinson, Otis Hall |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1857-1911 |
Description: | Personal account book of Otis Hall Robinson (1835-1912), University of Rochester graduate (1861), professor of mathematics and librarian |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Subject heading 2: | Robinson, Otis Hall |
Subject heading 3: | Librarians |
Location: | CX 10 |
Name: | Unknown |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1918 |
Description: | Collection of poems; calligraphy by a British civilian prisoner of war in Ruhleben Camp, near Spandau, Germany during World War I; includes water color drawings; quarter bound in rat skin |
Subject heading 1: | World War I |
Subject heading 2: | Calligraphy |
Subject heading 3: | Prisoners and Prisons |
Subject heading 4: | Pictoral Works |
Location: | CX 11 |
Name: | Hopton, William P |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1824 |
Description: | Catalogue of books from the library of William P. Hopton |
Subject heading 1: | Catalogs -- Library |
Location: | CX 12 |
Name: | Fraser, Margaret |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1827-1853 |
Description: | Record of financial transactions kept by Margaret Fraser of Livingston County, NY. Also includes brief diary entries and 2 pages of testimony given at an anti-Masonic trial. |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Subject heading 2: | Diaries |
Subject heading 3: | Freemasonry |
Location: | CX 13 |
Name: | Day, Edward Munson |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1845-1860 |
Description: | Personal financial records of Edward Munson Day (d. 1861), a New York City, Victor, and Rochester merchant. Also includes an "Inventory of books, pictures, furniture, etc. etc." compiled in 1857. |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Location: | CX 14 |
Name: | Piozzi, Hester Lynch |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1820 |
Description: | Manuscript written by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), a British writer and friend of Samuel Johnson. Published in Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), edited by A. Hayward. London, 1861. |
Subject heading 1: | Autobiographies |
Subject heading 2: | Piozzi, Hester Lynch |
Location: | CX 15 |
Name: | Owen, Athelstan |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1693 |
Description: | Poems written and signed by British poet Athelstan Owen many with revisions and deletions |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry |
Subject heading 2: | Owen, Athelstan |
Location: | CX 16 |
Name: | Needham, John Turberville |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1780 |
Description: | Autograph letter signed from Needham (1713-1781) to the secretary to the French Ambassador at Turin enclosing a printed letter from Edmund Burke to the citizens of Bristol and mss copy of Samuel Johnson's reply to Burke |
Subject heading 1: | Burke, Edmund |
Subject heading 2: | Johnson, Samuel |
Subject heading 3: | Needham, John Turberville |
Location: | CX 17 |
Name: | Paulding, James Kirke |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1842 |
Description: | Narrative of a trip down the Mississippi by Paulding (1778-1860) published in Graham's Magazine of Literature and Art, vol. XXII, (April, 1843), p. 215-224. Treated in Robert F. Metzdorf's dissertation Annotated Catalogue of the Charles A. Brown Collection |
Subject heading 1: | Prose Literature |
Subject heading 2: | Personal Narrative |
Subject heading 3: | Mississippi River |
Subject heading 4: | Poulding, James Kirke |
Location: | CX 18 |
Name: | Pope, Alexander |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
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Description: | Manuscript copy of the 1824 Brussels edition. Handwritten by an unknown calligrapher. |
Subject heading 1: | Calligraphy |
Subject heading 2: | Pope, Alexander |
Location: | CX 19 |
Name: | Curtius, Georg |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1875 |
Description: | Manuscript notes written by a student during a lecture course given by Georg Curtius (1820-1885) at the University of Leipzig in 1875 |
Subject heading 1: | Homer |
Subject heading 2: | Iliad |
Subject heading 3: | Curtius, Georg |
Subject heading 4: | Education -- Germany |
Location: | CX 20 |
Name: | Auburn, NY, Board of Trustees |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1825-1835 |
Description: | Account book for the village of Auburn, NY. The name John H. Bacon, clerk, appears on the cover. |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Subject heading 2: | Auburn, NY |
Location: | CX 21 |
Name: | Payne, John Howard |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | Commonplace book with description of coin collection |
Subject heading 1: | Commonplace books |
Subject heading 2: | Coins |
Subject heading 3: | Payne, John Howard |
Location: | CX 22 |
Name: | NY State Adjutant-General's Office |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1905 |
Description: | Lists New York State soldiers by regiments who fought in the Civil War. Copy owned by Edwin T. Marsh (140th Infantry) and includes notes and clippings, |
Subject heading 1: | New York Infantry -- 140th Regiment |
Subject heading 2: | Civil War |
Location: | CX 23 |
Name: | Hubbell, Jonathan S. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1857-186 |
Description: | Town of Fort Edward, Washington County, NY tax assessment and military roll kept by Jonathan S. Hubbell (1804-1902) |
Subject heading 1: | Fort Edward, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Tax Assessment |
Subject heading 3: | Military Roll |
Subject heading 4: | Hubbell, Jonathan Smith |
Location: | CX 24 |
Name: | Wilson, James Grant |
# of Volumes: | 3 |
Dates: | 1902 |
Description: | Extra-illustrated volume with letters, autograph signatures, documents of American presidents and statesmen. Indexed in mss catalog |
Subject heading 1: | Autographs |
Subject heading 2: | Pictoral Works |
Subject heading 3: | Wilson, James Grant |
Location: | CX 25 |
Name: | Hutton, Laurence |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1891 |
Description: | Extra-illustrated volume with letters, autograph signatures, and images of American actors of the 19th century. Indexed in mss catalog. |
Subject heading 1: | Autographs |
Subject heading 2: | Pictoral Works |
Subject heading 3: | Theater |
Subject heading 4: | Hutton, Lawrence |
Location: | CX 26 |
Name: | Wright, Helen Stuyestant (Collier) |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1850s |
Description: | Autograph album of Wright, great-great granddaughter of Lewis Morris. Includes pasted in autographs of famous politicians, writers, etc. List laid in. |
Subject heading 1: | Autographs |
Subject heading 2: | Politicians |
Location: | CX 27 |
Name: | Jeffrey, Agnes |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1827-1870 |
Description: | Autograph sentiments written by Jeffrey's family and friends, mostly from Canandaigua, NY. Includes drawings, water colors, cut-outs, movables, and other artwork. For a detailed description, click here. |
Subject heading 1: | Autographs |
Subject heading 2: | Sentiment Albums |
Subject heading 3: | Pictoral Works |
Subject heading 4: | Canandaigua, NY |
Subject heading 5: | Jeffrey, Agnes |
Location: | CX 28 |
Name: | French Manuscript on Optics |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1750 |
Description: | 18th-century French manuscript on optics |
Subject heading 1: | Optics |
Location: | CX 29 |
Name: | Sickels, Eleanor M. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1969 |
Description: | Typed account of the family of Frank Edward Sickels (UR class of 1880) and Annie Lawrence Sickels (a graduate of Ingham University, the first women's college in New York State) by their daughter Eleanor M. Sickels. The Sickels lived in Buffalo and East Aurora, NY, and North Yakima, Washington. |
Subject heading 1: | Sickels family |
Location: | CX 30 |
Name: | Irving, Julia A. (Granger) |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1870-1884 |
Description: | Record of social engagements, travels, visitors and visits; mentions Irving, Granger, Porter and Rochester families; 3-page account by W.L.P. of War of 1812 ; newspaper clippings and photographs laid in. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Canandaigua, NY |
Subject heading 3: | War of 1812 |
Location: | CX 31 |
Name: | Sons of Temperance |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1851-1853 |
Description: | Manuscript minutes of temperance organization in Chittenango, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Chittenango, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Temperance Societies |
Location: | CX 32 |
Name: | Harris, Abiathar Millard |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1821-1827 |
Description: | Diary kept by itinerant printer during his travels from Rochester through other upstate NY communities, Canada and New England. Describes people he met, jobs he held, and his many adventures. With an article about the diary from July 21, 1940, Democrat & Chronicle. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Canada |
Subject heading 3: | New England |
Subject heading 4: | New York State |
Subject heading 5: | Travel |
Subject heading 6: | Printers |
Location: | CX 33 |
Name: | Hutchinson, Mathias |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1819-1820 |
Description: | Hutchinson's diary of a trip through New York and lower Ontario, Canada, with Edward Hicks, painter of "Peaceable Kingdom." Chronicles Friends meetings attended, places seen and people encountered. Published in 2 issues of Quaker History shelved with diary. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Quakers |
Subject heading 3: | New York State |
Subject heading 4: | Canada |
Subject heading 5: | Hicks, Edward |
Subject heading 6: | Huthinson, Mathias |
Location: | CX 34 |
Name: | Murray, Francis |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1884-1886 |
Description: | Manuscript copies of poems and prose written by Francis Murray of Rochester, NY. Many describe local people, places and events. Also includes newspaper clippings of Murray's published poems. |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry |
Subject heading 2: | Prose Literature |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 4: | Murray, Francis |
Location: | CX 35 |
Name: | State Agricultural and Industrial School Report |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1947? |
Description: | Typescript of a report written at the request of Clinton W. Areson, Superintendent of the State Agricultural and Industrial School in Industry, NY. Includes a discussion of juvenile delinquency and case studies. |
Subject heading 1: | Juvenile Delinquency |
Subject heading 2: | State Agricultural and Industrial School, Industry, NY |
Location: | CX 36 |
Name: | Hutchison, Charles Force |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1930-1931 |
Description: | List of expenses in building the home of Charles Force Hutchison at 930 East Avenue, Rochester, NY. Blue print of survey plot laid in. The house was owned by the University of Rochester and is now occupied by the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors. |
Subject heading 1: | Architecture, Residential |
Subject heading 2: | University of Rochester |
Subject heading 3: | Hutchison, Charles Force |
Location: | CX 37 |
Name: | Steel, Richard |
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Dates: | 1876-1879 |
Description: | Diary of a retired druggist in Auburn, NY. Steel was active in the Presbyterian Church and the diary recounts church activities, religious reflections, and incidents in his daily life. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Presbyterian Church |
Subject heading 3: | Auburn, NY |
Location: | CX 38 |
Name: | Methodist Episcopal Society of Delta, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1842-1877 |
Description: | Minutes of Methodist Episcopal church located in Delta, town of Lee, Oneida County, NY. Minutes mainly concern the election of officers. Back part of volume is an account book with records of pew rentals, 1843-1878. |
Subject heading 1: | Methodist Episcopal Church |
Subject heading 2: | Delta, NY |
Location: | CX 39 |
Name: | Deerfield, NY, Town, Oneida County |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1841-1886 |
Description: | Minutes of meetings of the school district |
Subject heading 1: | Deerfield, NY |
Subject heading 2: | School Districts |
Location: | CX 40 |
Name: | Alexandria, NY, Town, Jefferson County |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1839-1898; 1911 |
Description: | Minutes of meetings of School District No. 19 |
Subject heading 1: | Alexandria, NY |
Subject heading 2: | School Districts |
Location: | CX 41 |
Name: | Ellisburg, NY, Town, Jefferson County |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1840-1905 |
Description: | Minutes of meetings of School District No. 22 |
Subject heading 1: | Ellisburg, NY |
Subject heading 2: | School Districts |
Location: | CX 42 |
Name: | Schuyler, NY, Herkimer County |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1842-1913 |
Description: | Minutes of meetings of School District No. 1 |
Subject heading 1: | Schuyler, NY |
Subject heading 2: | School Districts |
Location: | CX 43 |
Name: | Account Book, 1846-1849 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1846-1849 |
Description: | Account book of an unknown individual |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Location: | CX 44 |
Name: | Account Book, 1850s-1870s |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1850s-1870s |
Description: | Account book of an unknown individual |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Location: | CX 45 |
Name: | Choate, Alonzo |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1843-1856 |
Description: | Inventories with values 1843, 1844, and 1847 of Alonzo Choate's dry goods store in South Warsaw, Wyoming County, NY, and auction records, 1856, of the store. Also includes Justice of the Peace cases, 1847-1856. |
Subject heading 1: | Inventories |
Subject heading 2: | Justice |
Subject heading 3: | Stores, Retail |
Subject heading 4: | South Warsaw, NY |
Location: | CX 46 |
Name: | Household and Personal Account Book, 1860-1871 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1860-1871 |
Description: | Household and personal accounts of an unknown person |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Subject heading 2: | Household Accounts |
Location: | CX 47 |
Name: | Webster and Case Hardware Store |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1911-1917 |
Description: | Inventory of Webster and Case Hardware Store in Warsaw, NY. Includes fixtures, tools, etc. and list of equipment added in 1917. |
Subject heading 1: | Inventories |
Subject heading 2: | Hardware Stores |
Location: | CX 48 |
Name: | Botsford, Ruth Haxton (Fancher) |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1840-1854 |
Description: | Album of poetry and sentiments gathered by Ruth Haxton (Fancher) Botsford |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry |
Subject heading 2: | Sentiment albums |
Location: | CX 49 |
Name: | Descent of Titles to the Lands Within the Village of Macedon, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 (unbound) |
Dates: | 1922 |
Description: | Photocopy of typescript of "Descent of titles to the lands within the village of Macedon, NY." Contains introductory material, index, maps and text. |
Subject heading 1: | Land Titles |
Subject heading 2: | Macedon, NY |
Location: | CX 50 |
Name: | French Poetry, 1714-1720 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1714-1720 |
Description: | Manuscript volume of poems by an unknown eighteenth-century French poet |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry, French |
Location: | CX 51 |
Name: | Sims, J. Watson |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1892-1893 |
Description: | Photographs taken by J. Watson Sims depicting the construction of the Court Street Bridge, Rochester, NY. Album was owned by one of the contractors, S. W. Hagaman. |
Subject heading 1: | Photographs |
Subject heading 2: | Court Street Bridge |
Subject heading 3: | Bridge Construction |
Subject heading 4: | Rochester, NY |
Location: | CX 52 |
Name: | Risley, Hanson A. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1890 |
Description: | Speech given by Hanson A. Risley in which he relates his memories of Lafayette, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and other political and literary figures. Risley was the father of Olive Risley who was adopted by William Henry Seward. |
Subject heading 1: | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de |
Subject heading 2: | Clay, Henry |
Subject heading 3: | Adams, John Quincy |
Subject heading 4: | Politicians |
Location: | CX 53 |
Name: | Olliver, Marion |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1820 |
Description: | Contains letters of Robert Southey and George Cruickshank; document signed by Sir Walter Scott; pencil sketch of Southey's home, Greta Hall; lines of poetry written in the hand of Southey's daughter, Edith, and her husband, John Wood Warter. |
Subject heading 1: | Sentiment Albums |
Subject heading 2: | Poetry |
Subject heading 3: | Southey, Robert |
Subject heading 4: | Cruickshank, George |
Subject heading 5: | Scott, Sir Walter |
Subject heading 6: | Warter, Edith May (Southey) |
Location: | CX 54 |
Name: | Smith, John |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1807 |
Description: | Survey of the Genesee River gorge bounded on the south by Fairfield and north by Braddocks Bay Township; includes map showing the boundaries of the lots surveyed and a complete survey of each lot. Made by order of James Wadsworth by John Smith. |
Subject heading 1: | Parma, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Genesee River |
Subject heading 3: | Surveyors |
Subject heading 4: | Wadsworth, James |
Location: | CX 55 |
Name: | McCanne, Minnie Lee |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | Typescript of poems by Rochester, NY, poet Minnie Lee McCanne. See also CX 56. |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry |
Subject heading 2: | McCanne, Minnie Lee |
Location: | CX 56 |
Name: | McCanne, Minnie Lee |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1933 |
Description: | Poems transcribed by Minne Lee McCanne. See also CX 55. |
Subject heading 2: | McCanne, Minnie Lee |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry |
Location: | CX 57 |
Name: | Phaedrus |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1817 |
Description: | Manuscript in calligraphic hand of Le favole di fedro translated into Italian by Luigi Pompa |
Subject heading 1: | Fables |
Subject heading 2: | Latin -- Translations into Italian |
Subject heading 3: | Pompa, Luigi |
Subject heading 4: | Calligraphy |
Location: | CX 58 |
Name: | Rhetoric |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1700s? |
Description: | Handwritten volume on rhetoric. Perhaps an original work or notes on Bernard Lamy's book La rhetorique ou l'art de parler, which was published in the late 1600s. Has bookplate of Monsieur A. G du Plessis. |
Subject heading 1: | Rhetoric |
Subject heading 2: | Oratory |
Subject heading 3: | Calligraphy |
Location: | CX 59 |
Name: | Batavia, NY Co. No. 1 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1862-1867 |
Description: | Minutes of monthly and special meetings; some notices of fires. Also includes several membership and officer lists, 1853-1871 and newspaper account of the Batavia Fire Department annul inspection. |
Subject heading 1: | Fire Departments |
Subject heading 2: | Batavia, NY |
Location: | CX 60 |
Name: | O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1872 |
Description: | Manuscript draft of poem published in Lays of France (Founded on the Lays of Marie) by Arthur W. E. O'Shaughnessy (London: Ellis & Green, 1872). |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry |
Subject heading 2: | Marie, de France, 12 century |
Subject heading 3: | O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar |
Location: | CX 61 |
Name: | Meredith Tavern |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1893-1911 |
Description: | Guest register for Meredith Tavern, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, Includes sketches of people, buildings, animals and landscapes; volume used as a diary, 1932-1938. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Hotels |
Subject heading 3: | Meredith Tavern |
Subject heading 4: | Niagara-on-the Lake, Ontario, Canada |
Subject heading 5: | Pictoral Works |
Location: | CX 62 |
Name: | Starkey, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1851-1923 |
Description: | Minutes of annual and special meetings of school district no. 2 in Starkey Township, Yates County, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Starkey, NY |
Subject heading 2: | School districts |
Location: | CX 63 |
Name: | Green, Sylvina Maria Dewey |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1895-1898 |
Description: | Scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining primarily to the women's rights movement compiled by Sylvina Maria Dewey Green of Byron, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Women's Rights |
Location: | CX 64 |
Name: | Provident Loan Society of Rochester , NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1912-1941 |
Description: | Run of annual reports interleaved with photographs, printed and manuscript items related to the firm that was founded in 1912 to "loan money to wage earners on household furniture at a just rate of interest." Harper Sibley (and here) was the first president. |
Subject heading 1: | Loans, Personal |
Subject heading 2: | Provident Loan Society of Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Sibley, Harper |
Location: | CX 65 |
Name: | Ogden (NY). School District No. 12. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1838-1921 |
Description: | Minutes of annual and special meetings of the Ogden, NY (Town, Monroe County) School District No. 12. First two pages record minutes that set up the district, May 12, 1838. Began as district 15, changed to 12 between 1863 and 1866. |
Subject heading 1: | Ogden, NY |
Subject heading 2: | School districts |
Location: | CX 66 |
Name: | Italy (NY). School District No. 2. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1908-1938 |
Description: | Minutes of annual and special meetings of the Italy, NY (Town, Yates County) School District No. 2. Begins with the year 1908, the previous records having been burned. Miscellaneous printed and manuscript material laid in. |
Subject heading 1: | Italy, NY |
Subject heading 2: | School districts |
Location: | CX 67 |
Name: | Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1880-1890 |
Description: | Includes constitution, membership list for 1880-81 and minutes of meetings. Founded under name Allegany County Woman's Temperance Union. Affiliated with the WCTU in 1882. |
Subject heading 1: | Allegany County |
Subject heading 2: | Temperance Societies |
Subject heading 3: | Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
Location: | CX 68 |
Name: | Universalist Church, Busti, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1835-1852 |
Description: | Includes the constitution adopted, minutes kept, and members who attended the organizing meeting on January, 17, 1835. Also debit and credit accounts, 1844-1852, of Thomas F. Halladay of Chautauqua County, and records of "logs drawn," 1845-46. |
Subject heading 1: | Busti, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Chautauqua County, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Lumbering |
Subject heading 4: | Universalist Church |
Location: | CX 69 |
Name: | Jones, Ambrose |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1834-1879 |
Description: | List of births attended by Dr. Ambrose Jones of Charlotte, NY. Includes baby's name, position at birth, weight, time of delivery, and hours of labor. |
Subject heading 1: | Obstetrics |
Subject heading 2: | Charlotte, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Jones, Dr. Ambrose |
Location: | CX 70 |
Name: | Bowen, George A. |
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Dates: | 1886, 1889-1909 |
Description: | Accounts of George A. Bowen and/or his family who lived in Albion, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account Books |
Subject heading 2: | Albion, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Home Economics |
Location: | CX 71 |
Name: | Curtis, George C. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1852-1884 |
Description: | Records of marriages and funerals performed by George C. Curtis, a Presbyterian minister, in Adrian, MI, Elmira, NY, and Canandaigua, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Marriage Services |
Subject heading 2: | Funeral Services |
Subject heading 3: | Elmira, NY |
Subject heading 4: | Canandaigua, NY |
Subject heading 5: | Curtis, George C. |
Location: | CX 72 |
Name: | Robson, Kendrah |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1810 |
Description: | A Quaker, Kendrah Robson was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1803, and moved to Hartland, Niagara County, NY, where he farmed. Includes math workbook and diary (1838-1841) mentioning farm, business, social, anti-slavery, and religious activities. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Mathematics |
Subject heading 3: | Farm Life |
Subject heading 4: | Anti-Slavery |
Subject heading 5: | Quakers |
Subject heading 6: | Hartland, NY |
Location: | CX 73 |
Name: | Osgood, Howard Lawrence |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
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Description: | Contains typescripts and mounted newspaper clippings with manuscript annotations. Once owned by, and perhaps compiled by, Howard Lawrence Osgood. |
Subject heading 1: | Indians of North America |
Subject heading 2: | Osgood, Howard Lawrence |
Location: | CX 74 |
Name: | Record of Boats and Cargoes |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1859-1861 |
Description: | Chronological record of boats and their cargoes from various ports on Lake Ontario that may have been kept by someone in Sodus, NY, for some official purpose. Personal accounts and diary entries at back of volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Shipping |
Subject heading 3: | Lake Ontario |
Subject heading 4: | Sodus, NY |
Location: | CX 75 |
Name: | Hays, David |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1878-1879 |
Description: | Bound volume of letters David Hays wrote home while studying in Berlin, Germany and travelling in Europe. Also includes printed material relating to his year in Europe. Hays (1858-1900) graduated from University of Rochester in 1878. |
Subject heading 1: | Europe |
Subject heading 2: | Germany |
Subject heading 3: | Travel |
Subject heading 4: | Hays, David |
Location: | CX 76 |
Name: | Clarke, Elizabeth |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1838-1846 |
Description: | Sentiments written by friends of Elizabeth Clarke in Massachusetts and New York State. |
Subject heading 1: | Autographs |
Subject heading 2: | Sentiment Albums |
Subject heading 3: | Clarke, Elizabeth |
Location: | CX 77 |
Name: | Dana, Francis |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1837 |
Description: | Record kept by Francis Dana, Captain of the Watch Guard, Rochester, NY. Gives name, charge, disposition and sentence of about 135 cases, mostly for drunkenness, disorderly behavior and vagrancy. Other Watch Books at Rochester Public Library. |
Subject heading 1: | Police Department, Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Crime |
Location: | CX 78 |
Name: | Pardee, Hiram |
# of Volumes: | 3 |
Dates: | ca 1847 |
Description: | Volume 3 contains account of expenditures for a cobblestone house built about 1847; probably the Pardee-Daily house at 180 Pardee Road in Irondequoit, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Architecture -- domestic |
Subject heading 3: | Cobblestones |
Subject heading 4: | Irondequoit, NY -- history |
Location: | CX 79 |
Name: | Gates, NY District School, no. 3 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1861-1862 |
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Subject heading 1: | Gates, NY (Town, Monroe County) -- schools |
Subject heading 2: | School districts -- Gates, NY |
Location: | CX 80 |
Name: | Anderson, John |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1828-1849 |
Description: | Account book kept by John Anderson a farmer in Pompey, Onondaga County, New York |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Pompey, NY |
Location: | CX 81 |
Name: | Rochester Female Academy |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1835-1837; 1851 |
Description: | Includes list of subscribers, specifications for building to be built on Fitzhugh Street, hiring of principle and teachers, curriculum, tuition; Trustees included Jonathan Child, J. K. Livingston, W. P. Stanton, M. Chapin, E. F. Smith |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester, NY -- schools |
Subject heading 2: | Education of women |
Subject heading 3: | Child, Jonathan |
Location: | CX 82 |
Name: | Hunk, K. E. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1884-1889 |
Description: | Commonplace book composed of botanical art & pressings; photographs of Mt. Washington, NH, Saybrook, CT, Guilford, CT, Branford, CT, Guildford, England; chromolithographs; newspaper clippings. |
Subject heading 1: | Commonplace books |
Subject heading 2: | Photographs -- 19th Century |
Subject heading 3: | United States -- description and travel, New England |
Subject heading 4: | Botanical specimens -- collection and preservation |
Location: | CX 83 |
Name: | Hollister, Sarah Granger |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1881-1889 |
Description: | Diary kept by Sarah Granger Hollister (1830-1894), wife of Emmet H. Hollister, a Rochester lumber dealer. Mentions travel, health, visitors, family events, dinners held with guest lists and menus. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY -- social life and customs |
Location: | CX 84 |
Name: | Metcalf, Elvina |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1838-1839 |
Description: | Journal kept while Metcalf was a student at Greene St. School in Providence, Mentioned throughout are Hiram Fuller, who founded and directed the school and Margaret Fuller who taught there until December 19, 1838. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Fuller, Hiram |
Subject heading 3: | Fuller, Margaret |
Subject heading 4: | Education of women |
Location: | CX 85 |
Name: | Needlework Guild of America, Rochester Branch |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1928-1935 |
Description: | Newspaper clippings, organization brochures and notes related to the Guild whose purpose was to collect and distribute garments to charitable organizations and private cases. Each member donated two new garments or equivalent money annually. |
Subject heading 1: | Charities -- New York State -- Rochester |
Subject heading 2: | Women charities |
Location: | CX 86 |
Name: | Pollock, Channing |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1909 |
Description: | Written on title-page by Pollock: "This is the original manuscripts of acts I and II, typed by me and with corrections in my hand-writing. Also of working scenario and schedule of proposed changes." Play was produced at Hackett Theatre, NYC, Aug. 31, 1909. |
Subject heading 1: | Drama -- American |
Subject heading 2: | Drama -- manuscripts |
Location: | CX 87 |
Name: | Treman, Ann Murray Woodward |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1924-1925 |
Description: | Volume kept by Ann Murray Woodward (later Mrs. Arthur Treman) while a student at Miss Nixon's School in Fiesole, Italy. Contains photographs, postcards, genealogical tables, sketches of coats of arms and text all related to Italian history. |
Subject heading 1: | Italy -- history |
Subject heading 2: | Education of women |
Location: | CX 88 |
Name: | Hillyer, Robert Silliman |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1929 |
Description: | Manuscript notebook of unpublished poems except for some passages that became Parts I and II of his poem "The Gates of the Compass" published in 1930. Correspondence regarding notebook is in Mss. Coll. |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry -- manuscripts |
Location: | CX 89 |
Name: | Barker, Thomas |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1830-1840 |
Description: | A leather folder of loose documents owned by Thomas Barker of Cattaraugus County, NY. Contains approximately 60 promissory notes, receipts and bills. |
Subject heading 1: | Cattaraugus County, NY |
Location: | CX 90 |
Name: | Lovell, George William |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1835-1852 |
Description: | Newspaper clippings from London newspapers of reviews of plays written by the British playwright and novelist George William Lovell (1804-1878). |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Theater -- England |
Location: | CX 91 |
Name: | Lemon, Mark |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1824-1825 |
Description: | Commonplace book of Mark Lemon (1809-1870), the founder of the British humor magazine, Punch. Contains a collection of poetry and prose, some copied, and some original poems by Lemon. Newspaper articles about Lemon pasted in back. |
Subject heading 1: | Commonplace books |
Subject heading 2: | Poetry -- England |
Location: | CX 92 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
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Description: | Manuscript of Spanish play written by D.T.F.Z.H. 38 leaves. |
Subject heading 1: | Drama -- Spanish |
Location: | CX 93 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
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Description: | Manuscript of French play. 102 pages. |
Subject heading 1: | Drama -- French |
Location: | CX 94 |
Name: | Thorn, Albert |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca1900 |
Description: | Manuscript notebook of contra-dance calls copied by Albert Thorn from Unique Dancing Call Book (Rochester, NY: Charles Link, 1893). 75 pages. |
Subject heading 1: | Dance |
Location: | CX 95 |
Name: | Rebiere, G |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | ca1889 |
Description: | Extra-illustrated copy with letters, autographs, clippings and pamphlets bound in. Compiled by G. Rebiere or his family. List is laid in volume 1. Loose manuscripts in envelope at back of volume 2. |
Subject heading 1: | Extra-illustrated books |
Subject heading 2: | Autograph albums |
Location: | CX 96 |
Name: | Ives, Nathan |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1862-63 |
Description: | Lists the itinerary of the Kearsarge from its Portsmouth, NH, departure and while patrolling off the coast of Spain as part of the blockade of Confederate raiders. Photograph of Nathan Ives, who served as Landsman, laid in with information about the ship. |
Subject heading 1: | US Navy |
Subject heading 2: | USS Kearsarge |
Subject heading 3: | Civil War -- naval operations |
Location: | CX 97 |
Name: | Preddy, Lewellyn, T.R. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | March 22-June 6, 1917 |
Description: | Preddy enlisted in the 204th Battalion, 1st Brigade of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in April 1916; served in France and was killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918. Diary begins with his oversees departure and training in England before leaving for front |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | World War I -- personal narratives -- Canadian |
Location: | CX 98 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 5 |
Dates: | 1628-1634. 1628 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Germany. Includes coats-of-arms (some in color), printed material, engravings of people and places. Engraving of Wilibald Pirkheimer by Albrecht Durer in volume 4. |
Subject heading 1: | Germany genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Nuremberg (Germany) -- history |
Location: | CX 99 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1692-1780, 1692 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy. Includes drawings of coats-of-arms in pencil and pen (some in color). Different compilers created each volume (CX 99-CX 103). |
Subject heading 1: | Italy genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Venice (Italy) -- history |
Location: | CX 100 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1692-1780, 1692 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy. Includes drawings of coats-of-arms in pencil and pen (some in color). Different compilers created each volume (CX 99-CX 103). |
Subject heading 1: | Italy genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Venice (Italy) -- history |
Location: | CX 101 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1692-1780, 1692 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy. Includes drawings of coats-of-arms in pencil and pen (some in color). Different compilers created each volume (CX 99-CX 103). |
Subject heading 1: | Italy genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Venice (Italy) -- history |
Location: | CX 102 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1692-1780, 1692 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy. Includes drawings of coats-of-arms in pencil and pen (some in color). Different compilers created each volume (CX 99-CX 103). |
Subject heading 1: | Italy genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Venice (Italy) -- history |
Location: | CX 103 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1692-1780, 1692 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy. Includes drawings of coats-of-arms in pencil and pen (some in color). Different compilers created each volume (CX 99-CX 103). |
Subject heading 1: | Italy genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Venice (Italy) -- history |
Location: | CX 104 |
Name: | Kimball, Cecilia Mitchell |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1901-1902 |
Description: | Programs and notes on performances at the Lyceum Theater and Cook Opera House, Rochester, NY, and various New York City theaters. Scrapbook is commercially published volume specifically for theater records. |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Theater -- Rochester, NY |
Location: | CX 105 |
Name: | Johnson, Ruth N. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1840 |
Description: | Collection of occasional poems addressed to Ruth N. Johnson by friends and family from Genoa, Moravia, and Newark Valley, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Sentiment albums |
Subject heading 2: | Moravia, NY |
Location: | CX 106 |
Name: | Farrar, Caroline Weld |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1861-1862; 1869-1872 |
Description: | Records three trips made by Farrar. The first (1861-62) and third (1870-1872) to Europe; the second (1869) from Chicago to San Francisco with a party that included the former Secretary of State, William Henry Seward. |
Subject heading 1: | Seward, William Henry |
Subject heading 2: | Europe -- description and travel |
Location: | CX 107 |
Name: | Bemis, Mary E. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1831 |
Description: | Manuscript notes of sermons delivered at St. John's Episcopal Church, Canandaigua, NY, by William Barlow and Henry Ustick Onderdonk, May 1-Sept. 4, 1831. Also household recipes for desserts and cleaning aids. |
Subject heading 1: | Sermons |
Subject heading 2: | Recipes |
Subject heading 3: | St. John's Episcopal Church, Canandaigua, NY |
Location: | CX 108 |
Name: | Barnum, Helen Adelaide |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | July-August, 1911 |
Description: | Account kept by Helen Barnum while on a camping trip to Little Salmon Lake, Ontario, Canada, with her parents Mr. and Mrs. William Rand Barnum and others from Rochester, NY. Illustrated with photographs and paper ephemera. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Camping |
Subject heading 3: | Ontario, Canada |
Location: | CX 109 |
Name: | Clark, Jehiel |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1859-1860 |
Description: | Receipt book of Jeniel Clark and J.H. Church for sales of nursery stock. Printed name on forms "McKinster & Cumings, Proprietors of the Empire Nurseries, Rochester, NY" has been crossed out on each page. |
Subject heading 1: | Nurseries (horticulture) |
Subject heading 2: | McKinster & Cumings, Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Empire Nurseries, Rochester, NY |
Location: | CX 110 |
Name: | Jensen, David E. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | Autobiography of David E. Jensen (1909-1983) discussing his ancestry, childhood in Yates County, student years at Cornell (1926-30), years as a graduate student at the University of Rochester and career at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester |
Subject heading 1: | Memoirs |
Subject heading 2: | Ward's Natural Science Establishment |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY University -- student life |
Subject heading 4: | Yates County, NY |
Location: | CX 111 |
Name: | Stevens, James Stacy |
# of Volumes: | 3 |
Dates: | 1881-1883 |
Description: | Diaries kept by James Stacey Stevens (1864-1940) from Lima, NY, graduated from University of Rochester in 1885. He was later associated with the University of Maine. Diaries chronicle his college activities, farm work during the summer and cash accounts. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Lima, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY, University -- student life |
Location: | CX 112 |
Name: | Pool, Joseph H. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1849-1853 |
Description: | Cash book of a merchant at the Cornhill and Frankfort markets, Rochester, NY. Includes itemized accounting of various goods, cash received, and cash on hand. Also marginal notes of activities and weather. Pool listed in city directory as a butcher. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Grocery trade -- New York (State) -- Rochester |
Subject heading 3: | Stores, retail -- New York (State) -- Rochester |
Location: | CX 113 |
Name: | Smith, Joseph |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1839-1877 |
Description: | Memoir of Smith (1833-1911) describing his experience of working in cotton mills, family move to western NY, observations on political campaigns, service in the Civil War (NY 112th Volunteers) and as carpenter in Livonia, NY. Includes obits and genealogy. |
Subject heading 1: | Memories |
Subject heading 2: | Civil War -- regimental histories -- NY Volunteers -- 112th |
Subject heading 3: | Labor and laboring classes -- US |
Subject heading 4: | Livonia, NY |
Location: | CX 114 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1868-1901 |
Description: | Autographs of William Henry Seward and other Seward family members; also of Pomeroy family and other residents of Auburn, NY. Possibly kept by L. W. Bostwick, whose name is on first page. |
Subject heading 1: | Autograph albums |
Subject heading 2: | Seward, William Henry |
Subject heading 3: | Seward family, Auburn, NY |
Subject heading 4: | Auburn, NY |
Location: | CX 115 |
Name: | Cockerell, Harriet Anne |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1825 |
Description: | Contains paintings and drawings by Harriet Anne Cockerell and others, including a portrait of Cockerell, landscapes and buildings. Also, verses, perhaps written by Cockerell, who was probably British. |
Subject heading 1: | Sentiment albums |
Subject heading 2: | Art -- England |
Location: | CX 116 |
Name: | Barnes, Lillie M. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1886-1901 |
Description: | Contains autographs and sentiments written by family members and friends of Lillie M. Barnes of Middleport, NY. See also CX 126. |
Subject heading 1: | Autograph albums |
Subject heading 2: | Sentiment albums |
Subject heading 3: | Middleport, NY |
Location: | CX 117 |
Name: | Gates, NY (Town, Monroe County) School District 6 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1914 |
Description: | Printed form book filled out in manuscript. Includes name of taxable person, description of the real estate, value, and tax levied. |
Subject heading 1: | School districts -- Gates, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Gates, NY -- schools |
Location: | CX 118 |
Name: | Phelps, NY (Town, Ontario County) School District |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1841-1883 |
Description: | Minutes of annual and special meetings of school district 6, later 9, then 19. Topics discussed include election of officers, heating the school house, teachers, library, and other issues. |
Subject heading 1: | School districts -- Phelps, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Phelps, NY -- schools |
Location: | CX 119 |
Name: | Gillis, James W. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1919 |
Description: | Diary kept by Gillis (1884-1946) of Rochester while serving oversees in the army during World War I in Company E, 302nd Supply Train of the Quartermaster Corp. Diary records daily events, routines, and observations. Includes envelope with discharge. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | World War I |
Location: | CX 120 |
Name: | Harris, Selah M. |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1901-1905; 1911-1915 |
Description: | Two five-year "A Line a Day" diaries of Selah M. Harris of Joseph Harris Seeds, Moreton Farms, Rochester, NY. The diaries record his daily activities on the farm, business affairs, and weather. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Harris Seeds |
Subject heading 3: | Seed industry and trade |
Location: | CX 121 |
Name: | Deming, William H. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1828-1847 |
Description: | Account book kept by William H. Deming of Byron, Genesee County, NY. Entries are for wagon and sleigh repairs, farm labor, and farm produce. Loose printed and manuscript material from the volume in accompanying envelope. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Agriculture -- New York (state) |
Subject heading 3: | Byron, NY |
Subject heading 4: | Wagons |
Location: | CX 122 |
Name: | Wells, Amos J. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1870-1871 |
Description: | Transcription of journal kept by Amos J. Wells (1835-1885) of Wayne Co., NY. Includes short accounts of daily life, 2 trips to the Midwest in the winter and spring of 1870. Transcribed by his great-grandson, Reginald W. Neale. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | U.S. -- description and travel |
Subject heading 3: | Wayne County, NY |
Location: | CX 123 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1834-1852 |
Description: | Accounts of unknown person and unknown place, perhaps in Niagara County, NY. Mainly for labor and farm products. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Agriculture -- New York (state) |
Subject heading 3: | Niagara County, NY |
Location: | CX 124 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1831-1862 |
Description: | Accounts for labor and farm products. Perhaps kept by a member of a Dewey family in Niagara County, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Agriculture -- New York (state) |
Subject heading 3: | Niagara County, NY |
Location: | CX 125 |
Name: | Doyle, Richard |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1840 |
Description: | Sketchbook of humorous pen and ink drawings by the British illustrator Richard Doyle (1824-1883). |
Subject heading 1: | Sketchbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Art -- England |
Subject heading 3: | Artists -- British |
Subject heading 4: | Caricatures and cartoons |
Location: | CX 126 |
Name: | Barnes, Lillie M. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1879-1886 |
Description: | Contains autographs and sentiments written by family members and friends of Lillie M. Barnes of Middleport, NY. See also CX 116. |
Subject heading 1: | Autograph albums |
Subject heading 2: | Sentiment albums |
Subject heading 3: | Middleport, NY |
Location: | CX 127 |
Name: | Keople, Raymond Coon |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1900-1956 |
Description: | Scrapbook kept by Keople (1882-1958), UR class of 1905. Includes photographs, letters, newspaper clippings and printed ephemera related to his career as director of attendance for the Rochester City School system (1924-53) and his leisure activities |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY -- schools |
Location: | CX 128 |
Name: | Hopkins, Ira H. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1873-1874 |
Description: | Diary kept by Hopkins, a farm laborer in the town of Throop, Cayuga County, NY. Records farming activities, trips to nearby communities, visiting friends, etc. Also farming and personal financial accounts. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Agriculture -- New York (state) |
Subject heading 3: | Throop, NY |
Location: | CX 129 |
Name: | LeRoy, NY School District No. 16 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1829-1851 |
Description: | Minutes of meetings of LeRoy, NY school district, #16 |
Subject heading 1: | School districts -- LeRoy, NY (Town, Genesee County) |
Subject heading 2: | LeRoy, NY -- schools |
Location: | CX 130 |
Name: | LeRoy, NY School District No. 15. Lyceum. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1878-1879 |
Description: | Constitution and minutes of meetings of LeRoy, NY school district, #15. Volume was also used as the account book of the Hewes family in the 1880s. |
Subject heading 1: | School districts -- LeRoy, NY (Town, Genesee County) |
Subject heading 2: | LeRoy, NY -- schools |
Location: | CX 131 |
Name: | VanDusen, Ira |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1884 |
Description: | Diary describing spiritualist séances, including table tipping and contact with deceased friends and relatives. Kept between Jan. and March 1884 by VanDusen of Glen Falls, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Spiritualism |
Subject heading 3: | Glen Falls, NY |
Location: | CX 131 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | June-July, 1822 |
Description: | Journal written by a young Quaker woman while traveling from Philadelphia to Canada, partly on the Erie Canal. Describes sites throughout New York State including Rochester, Batavia, Niagara Falls. Transcription published in Rochester History. |
Subject heading 1: | New York State -- Description & Travel |
Subject heading 2: | Erie Canal |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY -- Description |
Subject heading 4: | Niagara Falls, NY -- Description |
Location: | CX 132 |
Name: | Bemis, James |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1834-1835 |
Description: | Photocopy of typed transcription of diary kept by Bemis, the pioneering printer, publisher, and newspaperman of Canandaigua, NY, while traveling in the British Isles and France. Also includes July 1,1845, reflections on his declining mental health. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Europe -- description and travel |
Subject heading 3: | Mental health |
Location: | CX 133 |
Name: | Rand, Harold S. |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1941-1946, 1950 |
Description: | Rand (1913-1960).Graduated UR 1934 (BA) and 1935 (MA). Served in the National Guard and the Air Transport Command during World War II. First director of the Rochester Community War Memorial, 1954-60. Diary includes record of events, opinions, poetry. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | World War II |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY -- social life and customs |
Location: | CX 134 |
Name: | Unidentified solider from Rochester, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1917-1919 |
Description: | Diary of an unidentified soldier in the 20 Engineers-Forestry. Record kept July 7, 1917 to July 25, 1919. Short entries record his travels in the US and France. Diary ends with his return to Rochester. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | World War I |
Location: | CX 135 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1920s? |
Description: | Album of photographs taken on a trip to the Middle East and Italy possibly by a group from Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Photograph albums |
Subject heading 2: | Photographs -- Middle East |
Subject heading 3: | Photographs -- Italy |
Location: | CX 136 |
Name: | Trask |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1848, 1852 |
Description: | Englishwoman's travels in upstate New York with husband and son, Aug.-Sept., 1852. Stops include Syracuse, Rochester, Niagara Falls, etc; attended 1852 Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse. Also account of 1848 trip to Wales written in another hand. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | New York State -- description and travel |
Subject heading 3: | Wales -- description and travel |
Subject heading 4: | Woman's Rights Convention |
Location: | CX 137 |
Name: | The Study Club, Rochester, NY |
# of Volumes: | 3 |
Dates: | 1913-1946 |
Description: | Minutes of The Study Club, a Rochester, NY, women's club that met to discuss social and economic conditions and later historical and literary topics. First volume includes constitution, bylaws and list of founding members. |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester, NY -- clubs |
Subject heading 2: | Woman -- societies and clubs |
Location: | CX 138 |
Name: | Gardiner, George |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1828 |
Description: | Includes chapters on geometrical problems; mensuration; land-surveying; projection, conical sections; mechanical powers; hydraulics; optics; astronomy; chemistry; etc. Illustrated with diagrams and watercolor drawings. |
Subject heading 1: | Science -- education -- Great Britain |
Subject heading 2: | Education -- Great Britain |
Subject heading 3: | Scientific illustration |
Subject heading 4: | Calligraphy |
Location: | CX 139 |
Name: | Kilk, Frances Sanders |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1825 |
Description: | Ink and watercolor illustrations of the counties of England and Wales with manuscript descriptive entries for each. |
Subject heading 1: | Atlas -- Great Britain |
Subject heading 2: | Geography -- history -- 19th Century |
Location: | CX 140 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1823-1828 |
Description: | Poems written by various authors with illustrations by several artists in different media. |
Subject heading 1: | Sentiment albums |
Subject heading 2: | Poetry -- manuscripts |
Subject heading 3: | Art -- Great Britain -- 19th Century |
Location: | CX 141 |
Name: | Breakenridge, Cecilia |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1827-32 |
Description: | Sentiment album compiled by friends and relatives of Cecilia Breakenridge, possibly of Hartford, CT. |
Subject heading 1: | Sentiment albums |
Location: | CX 142 |
Name: | Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1890 |
Description: | Sketchbook attributed to George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier ((1834-1896). |
Subject heading 1: | Art -- Great Britain -- 19th Century. |
Location: | CX 143 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1861-1863 |
Description: | Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to the Civil War. From the Library of Ed Grabhorn at the Grabhorn Press. |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Civil War |
Subject heading 3: | Grabhorn, Ed |
Location: | CX 144 |
Name: | Riker?, Jennie |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1856-1861 |
Description: | Sentiment album compiled by boarders of Mount de Sales Academy, MD, friends and family. Founded in 1852, Mount de Sales was the first Catholic institution in Baltimore County to offer education to young women of all denominations. |
Subject heading 1: | Sentiment albums |
Subject heading 2: | Catholic Church -- education -- Maryland |
Subject heading 3: | Education of women |
Location: | CX 145 |
Name: | Burrows, Latham A. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | c.1850 |
Description: | Manuscript poems and 23 watercolors created by Latham A. and Sarah A. Burrows of Buffalo, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Burrows, Sarah A |
Subject heading 2: | Poetry -- manuscripts |
Subject heading 3: | Art -- United States -- 19th Century |
Location: | CX 146 |
Name: | Schoolcraft, John Lawrence |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1843-1844 |
Description: | Partial diary of travels of John Lawrence Schoolcraft (1804-1860) in Europe. Includes descriptions of Lyons, Avignon, Pisa, Naples and Vesuvius, Schoolcraft was a NY State politician from Albany who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1849-53). |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Europe-description and travel |
Location: | CX 147 |
Name: | Peck, Myron G |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
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Description: | Typed manuscript written by Rochester author Myron G. Peck (d. 1893) |
Subject heading 1: | Italy-history |
Location: | CX 148 |
Name: | Cenci, Giacomo |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1820 |
Description: | The original manuscript was part of the Cenci family archives. It was copied by Giambattista Petrucci, ca 1820 and presented by him to Henry Wellesley (1791-1866). Shelley used a similar copy of the Cenci manuscript in writing his play "The Cenci." |
Subject heading 1: | Cenci Family |
Subject heading 2: | Italy-history |
Subject heading 3: | Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
Location: | CX 149 |
Name: | Decker, George Palmer |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1929 |
Description: | Typescript of an essay written by George Palmer Decker, counsel for the Six Nation tribes, about treaties made with the Iroquois and subsequently broken. Appendix includes text of treaties. Also photograph of Decker and correspondence |
Subject heading 1: | Iroquois Indians |
Subject heading 2: | Indians of North America-treaties-history |
Location: | CX 150 |
Name: | Burrows, John |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | Aug. 26, 1779-Oct. 13, 1779 |
Description: | Manuscript journal kept by John Burrows recording events of the Sullivan Expedition in which he took part as an officer in Spencer's 5th New Jersey Regiment. |
Subject heading 1: | Sullivan's Indian campaign, 1779 |
Subject heading 2: | Iroquois Indian wars |
Subject heading 3: | American Revolution |
Location: | CX 151 |
Name: | Moulthrop, Mary |
# of Volumes: | 5 boxes |
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Description: | Copies of genealogical data for Monroe County and adjacent areas compiled by Mary Moulthrop and Myrte Rice Hanes |
Subject heading 1: | Monroe County, NY-genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY-genealogy |
Location: | CX 152 |
Name: | Broke, Frederica Sophia (Mure) |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1834 |
Description: | Manuscript journal kept by Frederica Sophia Broke, an English woman who traveled with her husband Horatio George Broke (deputy quartermaster-general, Nova Scotia) and others. Describes sites in upstate NY and Rochester where she viewed the falls. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | New York State-description and travel |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY-description |
Location: | CX 153 |
Name: | Jenks, Michael Hutchinson |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | May 1828 |
Description: | Manuscript journal kept by Jenks (1795-1867), a farmer and surveyor from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Includes a description of Rochester, a drawn profile of the Genesee River, and a woodcut of Erie Canal packet boat pasted to inside front cover. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | New York State-description and travel |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY-description |
Location: | CX 154 |
Name: | Bradner, A |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1885 |
Description: | Daily account of activities and financial transactions of A. Bradner who seems to have been a farm laborer in Dansville, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Diaries |
Subject heading 3: | Dansville, NY-history |
Subject heading 4: | Livingston County, NY-history |
Location: | CX 155 |
Name: | Sawyer, Charles B. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1868-1884 |
Description: | Account book kept by an apparent resident of Monroe County, NY. Records cash received and spent for goods, labor and rent, Dates of family births and deaths written inside back cover. Printed financial statements and receipts laid in volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Monroe County, NY-history |
Location: | CX 156 |
Name: | Unknown |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1878-1880 |
Description: | Place and keeper unknown. Perhaps the account book of a manufacturer of barrels and crates. Newspaper clippings pasted over several pages. Laid in are receipt forms of Stettheimer, Tone & Co. Bankers (Rochester) with recipes written on the back. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Location: | CX 157 |
Name: | Parsons, W. M. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1870-1875 |
Description: | Account book of W. M. Parsons who may have been a blacksmith and/or carpenter in Brighton, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Brighton, NY-history |
Location: | CX 158 |
Name: | McKenzie, Donald |
# of Volumes: | 3 vols. In 1 |
Dates: | 1801-1806 |
Description: | McKenzie (1784-1861) was born in Scotland and came to the United States in 1804. He later settled in Caledonia, NY. See also CY 52. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Diaries |
Subject heading 3: | Caledonia, NY-history |
Location: | CX 159 |
Name: | French, John B |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1863 |
Description: | Journal of a East Bloomfield, NY, farmer records daily activities and cash accounts in back of the volume |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Agriculture-New York State |
Subject heading 3: | East Bloomfield, NY-history |
Location: | CX 160 |
Name: | Curtis, Daniel |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1850s-1880s |
Description: | Accounts with Pardee and Higby of Palmyra, NY. Also includes records and notes of other financial dealings. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Palmyra, NY |
Location: | CX 161 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1859-1861 |
Description: | Financial transactions of a merchant. Also includes "Inventory 1871-1872." Later used as a scrapbook with clippings and programs related to the Spencerport, NY area. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Spencerport, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CX 162 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1807, 1809-1811 |
Description: | Financial transactions of a purveyor of alcoholic beverages. Title later added to front cover: "Herbarium 1816 E.B.B." Includes index to plants and flowers pressed in volume, but many lost. |
Subject heading 1: | Account book |
Subject heading 2: | Botanical specimens |
Subject heading 3: | Liquor store, retail |
Location: | CX 163 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1804-1809 |
Description: | Financial transactions of a merchant in Geneva, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Geneva, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CX 164 |
Name: | Jermain, D'Etta H. |
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Dates: | 1861-1897 |
Description: | Autograph album of Rochester, NY woman named "Nettie" (perhaps D'Etta H. Jermain whose name appears twice in the album. |
Subject heading 1: | Autograph albums |
Location: | CX 165 |
Name: | Willsea, Albert C. |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1921-1924 |
Description: | Record of financial transactions of a Rochester, NY, agent for the Stanley Motor Company, manufacturer of the Stanley Steamer. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Automobile dealers-Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Stanley Motor Company |
Location: | CX 166 |
Name: | Barker, Hiram L. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1860-1890 |
Description: | Records of estates managed by Rochester, NY, attorney Hiram L. Barker. |
Subject heading 1: | Lawyers-Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Estate planning-Rochester, NY |
Location: | CX 167 |
Name: | Hubbard, S. |
# of Volumes: | 3 |
Dates: | 1844-1883 |
Description: | Records of financial transactions kept by a Geneseo, NY, attorney. Volume 1: 1844-1854; Volume 2: 1872-83. Also retained copies of letters written by the law firm of Hubbard and Howard between 1881-83. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Lawyers-Geneseo, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Practice of law |
Location: | CX 168 |
Name: | Montgomery, Thomas C. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1842-1850 |
Description: | Financial records of the law practice of Thomas C. Montgomery and Ebenezer Griffin whose office was located in the Talman Building, Rochester, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Lawyers-Rochester, NY |
Location: | CX 169 |
Name: | Sampson, Ashley |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1846 |
Description: | Sampson was born in CT in 1790; graduated from Middlebury College; studied law; admitted to the bar in NY; moved to Rochester in 1818; practiced law,served as a judge and member of city counsel. Each entry is a brief yearly account of his life and work. |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester, NY-history |
Subject heading 2: | Lawyers-Rochester, NY |
Location: | CX 170 |
Name: | East Bloomfield, NY School District, No. 14 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1813-1868 |
Description: | Minutes of meetings of the trustees and reports to the Commissioners of Common Schools of the town of Bloomfield. Before 1832 the school district was no. 11, in 1866 it became no. 9, and sometime later no. 14.. Includes names of families and trustees. |
Subject heading 1: | East Bloomfield, NY-schools |
Location: | CX 171 |
Name: | Ontario, NY, District School, no. 4 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1843-1852 |
Description: | List of students and an accounting of the days each attended school. Includes statements written by teachers attesting to the accuracy of the numbers. |
Subject heading 1: | School registers |
Subject heading 2: | Ontario, NY - schools |
Location: | CX 172 |
Name: | Rochester, NY, Public School No. 16 |
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Dates: | 1854-1891 |
Description: | Register of visitors and students |
Subject heading 1: | School registers |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY-schools |
Location: | CX 173 |
Name: | Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1834 |
Description: | Manuscript of English translation of the 1688 edition of Lady Guyon's Le Cantique des cantiques de Salomon. Translated by "the kind wife of the Revd. Edward White, Rector of Epperstone, Nottingham Shire for John Phillips by whom copied into this volume." |
Subject heading 1: | Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon |
Location: | CX 174 |
Name: | Waller, Agnes M. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1898 |
Description: | Album kept by daughter of British actor Lewis Waller. Includes clipped signatures of Waller, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Irene Vanbrugh, Fred Terry, Anthony Hope, Wilson Barrett, Johnston Forbes-Robinson and other notables of the British theater. |
Subject heading 1: | Autograph albums |
Subject heading 2: | Theatre-England |
Location: | CX 175 |
Name: | Foster, Judith Ellen Horton |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1904 |
Description: | Foster (1840-1910) was a lawyer, temperance leader and Republican Party organizer. Chronicles her trip to western states to campaign for Theodore Roosevelt. Includes her observations of political and social issues. 2 letters to her son laid in. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Republican Party |
Subject heading 3: | West (U.S.) - description and travel |
Location: | CX 176 |
Name: | Curtis, George William |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1876-1883 |
Description: | 29 letters from George William Curtis to D. J. H. Willcox in a bound volume. Curtis (1824-1892) was a writer, editor, and active in Republican Party politics. |
Subject heading 1: | Republican Party |
Location: | CX 177 |
Name: | Farley, Mary Bates |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1888-89 |
Description: | Scrapbook and diary made by Mary Bates Farley (1871-1948) while a student at Mrs. Piatt's School (formerly the Utica Female Seminary) in Utica, NY, in 1888-89. On Nov. 30, 1897, Farley married George Motley (1868-1927). |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Utica, N.Y.--schools |
Location: | CX 178 |
Name: | Ackerson, Fred M. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1950 |
Description: | Bound volume, including several mounted newsclippings and photographs |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Ackerson, Fred M. |
Location: | CX 179 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | Unknown |
Description: | Bound volume, including nineteenth century black and white portrait photographs |
Subject heading 1: | Photographs |
Location: | CX 180 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | Unknown |
Description: | Bound volume, including nineteenth century black and white portraits, color prints |
Subject heading 1: | Photographs |
Subject heading 2: | Prints |
Location: | CX 181 |
Name: | Cathcart, Frederick Macadam |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | February 1833 |
Description: | Bound volume, untitled manuscript volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Cathcart, Frederick Macadam |
Subject heading 2: | Manuscript |
Location: | CX 182 |
Name: | Cathcart, Frederick Macadam |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | February 1834 |
Description: | Bound manuscript volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Cathcart, Frederick Macadam |
Subject heading 2: | Manuscript |
Location: | CX 183 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1900 |
Description: | Unbound manuscript volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Japan |
Subject heading 2: | 1900 |
Subject heading 3: | Map |
Location: | CX 184 |
Name: | Bogan, Allice C. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca. 1877- 1882 |
Description: | 1 volume autograph book with forty seven signatures of Bogan's students. |
Subject heading 1: | Bogan, Allice C. |
Subject heading 2: | Autograph |
Location: | CX 185 |
Name: | Sisson, David |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca. 1856- 1940 |
Description: | 1 typescript volume including transcription of 1854 William Sisson diary, family history, genealogical information. |
Subject heading 1: | Sisson, David |
Subject heading 2: | Sisson, William |
Location: | CX 186 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1906- 1925 |
Description: | Bound minutes of trustees of the Genesee Pure Food Company and of Orator F. Woodward medicine business, 1906-18, also analytical chart, 1914-25. |
Subject heading 1: | Food |
Subject heading 2: | Genesee Food Company |
Subject heading 3: | Genesee, New York |
Location: | CX 187 |
Name: | Cady, A.S. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca. 1840- 1874 |
Description: | 1 volume with letter set in. Diary relates to Genesee Cotton Mills. Transcription included. |
Subject heading 1: | Cady, A.S (Artemas Stoyell (1819- 1897) |
Subject heading 2: | Genesee Cotton Mills |
Subject heading 3: | Diary |
Location: | CX 188 |
Name: | Stacey, Thomas |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1850- 1856 |
Description: | Thomas Stacey notebook recording accounts from 1850- 1856 of Methodist Episcopal Church of Alexander Street, Rochester, New York and of Clifton Springs, New York. |
Subject heading 1: | Stacey, Thomas |
Subject heading 2: | Methodist Episcopal Church |
Subject heading 3: | Account Book |
Location: | CX 189 |
Name: | St. John Chrysostom |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 15th century? |
Description: | Latin manuscript of sermons of St. John Chrysostom (347-407 AD), Archbishop of Constantinople. Title initials in red and blue; bound in vellum. Written on front end paper: "From library of Miss Clarkson, Alverthorpe Hall Wakefield". |
Subject heading 1: | Sermons |
Subject heading 2: | Calligraphy |
Location: | CX 192 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1888- 1938 |
Description: | Minutes of the trustees, for Moseley and Motley Milling Company, Rochester, New York, 1888- 1938 |
Location: | CX 193 |
Name: | Prentice, Mary C. |
# of Volumes: | 4 |
Dates: | ca. 1846- 1895 |
Description: | 4 volume diary with explanatory notes written by Prentice in 1913. Diary provides account of life in New York State. |
Subject heading 1: | Prentice, Mary C. |
Subject heading 2: | New York (State) |
Subject heading 3: | Diaries--Authorship |
Location: | CX 194 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | January 28, 1911- February 26, 1911 |
Description: | 1 volume handwritten passenger log of trip to West Indies aboard S.S. New York. Accompanying transcription in envelope. |
Subject heading 1: | Voyages and travels. |
Location: | CX 195 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1848- 1949 |
Description: | 1 volume handwritten record book for Parma District 14. |
Subject heading 1: | Parma (N.Y.)--History. |
Location: | CX 201 |
Name: | Arvin, Neil Cole |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | ca 1930 |
Description: | Typescript of study of the French theater by Arvin (1889-1953), Professor of French at the University of Rochester. It was not published. |
Subject heading 1: | Theater -- France -- history |
Location: | CX 249 |
Name: | Coates, Benjamin Hornor |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1817 |
Description: | Manuscript journal of a trip to Niagara kept by Benjamin Hornor Coates (1797-1881), a Philadelphia physician. Describes scenery and towns in central and western NY. Excerpts were published in the UR Library Bulletin 10:1 (Autumn 1957). |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | New York State-description and travel |
Subject heading 3: | Niagara Falls-description |
Location: | CX 257 |
Name: | Howe?, Samuel C.? |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1830s |
Description: | Perhaps kept by Samuel C. Howe of Phelps, NY (?) although initials A.T.H. are on spine. Purpose unknown; accounts are in pounds. Newspaper clippings pasted over accounts on several pages; also contains juvenile pencil drawings. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Scrapbooks |
Location: | CX 259 |
Name: | E, C |
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Dates: | 1831-1832 |
Description: | Initials "E.C." on spine. Appears to be the account book of a merchant selling groceries and sundries perhaps in Geneseo, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Store, retail |
Location: | CX 271 |
Name: | Flowers, Elijah |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1789-1828 |
Description: | Account book of Geneseo, NY, merchant. Entries indicate that Flowers may have been involved in several businesses including a tavern, store, inn and blacksmith shop. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Geneseo, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CY 1 |
Name: | Willson, George |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1846-1852 |
Description: | Financial records of payments to George Willson, a businessman perhaps in Canandaigua, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Location: | CY 2 |
Name: | Langslow, Richard |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1817 |
Description: | Typescript removed from the Arthur C. Parker Papers. Location of original manuscript unknown. Richard Langslow was a former British army captain. |
Subject heading 1: | U.S. -- description and travel |
Location: | CY 3 |
Name: | Piozzi, Hester Lynch |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1791 |
Description: | Manuscript written by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), a British writer and friend of Samuel Johnson. Formerly in the R. B. Adam Library. |
Subject heading 1: | Drama -- Great Britain -- 18th Century |
Subject heading 2: | Drama -- manuscripts |
Location: | CY 4 |
Name: | Paulding, James Kirke |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | Manuscripts of five fables by Paulding (1778-1860): "The philosopher and the madman," "The rich man and the beggar," "Memory and hope," "The mirror and the window pane," and "The man and his shadow." |
Subject heading 1: | Prose literature |
Subject heading 2: | Prose -- manuscripts |
Location: | CY 5 |
Name: | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1890 |
Description: | Manuscript of melodies for the flute written from memory by Stevenson (1850-1894) to be played by him and his friends in his Samoan home. Bound with two photographs of Stevenson playing his flute, an etched portrait, and a signature clipped from a letter |
Subject heading 1: | Music -- manuscripts |
Location: | CY 6 |
Name: | Whittier, John Greenleaf |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | undated |
Description: | Autograph manuscript, 3 pages. Bound with two photographs of Whittier (1807-1892) |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry -- manuscripts |
Location: | CY 7 |
Name: | Whittier, John Greenleaf |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | ca 1865 |
Description: | Autograph manuscript signed, 6p. First published in the Atlantic Monthly (1865) and later in The Tent on the Beach (1867), a collection of Whittier poems |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry -- manuscripts |
Location: | CY 8 |
Name: | Wilson, Angus |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1952 |
Description: | Production copy of the producer Reyner Heppenstall for a BBC radio broadcast, Dec. 2, 1952. Manuscript corrections and notes made by Heppenstall |
Subject heading 1: | Radio scripts |
Subject heading 2: | Heppenstall, Reyner |
Location: | CY 9 |
Name: | Yates, Nancy Anah (Babcock) |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1910-1912 |
Description: | Scrapbooks of articles clipped from the Rochester Post Express |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester, NY -- History |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY -- genealogy |
Location: | CY 10 |
Name: | Smith, John N. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1857-1860 |
Description: | Diary of daily activities kept by John H. Smith, a farmer in Scipio, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Scipio, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Agriculture -- New York (State) |
Location: | CY 11 |
Name: | Miller, Elisa F. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1837-1852 |
Description: | Printed forms filled in with information on each case heard before Miller and Granger who were Justices of the Peace in Ontario County, NY. Includes relevant dates, names of litigants and witnesses, declarations, pleas and damages charged. |
Subject heading 1: | Justice -- administration of -- Ontario Co., NY |
Subject heading 2: | NY; Ontario County, NY -- history |
Location: | CY 12 |
Name: | Morris & Co. |
# of Volumes: | 3 |
Dates: | 1880-1887 |
Description: | Account books of a business in Warsaw, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Warsaw, NY |
Location: | CY 13 |
Name: | Farman, Elbert E. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1860-1878 |
Description: | Record of the legal cases of Elbert E. Farman, a lawyer in Warsaw, NY. Includes chronological list of work done on each case and its disposition. Many cases heard in Supreme Court of Wyoming County, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Courts -- New York (State) |
Subject heading 2: | Justice, administration of, Wyoming County, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Warsaw, NY |
Location: | CY 14 |
Name: | Jenkins, Gideon H. |
# of Volumes: | 6 |
Dates: | 1846-1852 |
Description: | Account books for Gideon H. Jenkins's general store in Centerville, Alleghany County, NY. Parts of several volumes pasted over with newspaper clippings. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CY 15 |
Name: | Doolittle, Chauncey & Co. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1851-1874 |
Description: | Account book of Chaucey Doolittle & Co., a business in Buffalo, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Buffalo, NY |
Location: | CY 16 |
Name: | Hodge and Morris Hardware Store |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1849-1851 |
Description: | Account book of Hodge and Morris Hardware Store in Warsaw, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Hardware stores -- Warsaw, NY |
Location: | CY 17 |
Name: | Truesdell, Philander |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1860-1862 |
Description: | Account book of a store selling fabric, clothing, and food items |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CY 18 |
Name: | Bartlet, Stephen |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
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Description: | Manuscript volume of penmanship exercises, but mostly of mathematical rules, problems, and solutions. Kept by Stephen Bartlet of Bath, NY, in the early part of the nineteenth century. |
Subject heading 1: | Bath, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Mathematics |
Location: | CY 19 |
Name: | unknown |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1839 |
Description: | Newspaper articles, many with wood engravings, pasted over pages of an account book. The account book seems to be for a drygoods store. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 3: | Stores -- retail |
Location: | CY 20 |
Name: | Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1937-1940 |
Description: | Album of 16 black and white photographs of Rochester Gas and Electric buildings and facilities, 1937-1940. |
Subject heading 1: | Electrical utilities -- Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Gas companies -- Rochester, NY |
Location: | CY 21 |
Name: | McElroy, Nellie L. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1913-1916 |
Description: | Journal kept by Nellie L. McElroy, the first policewoman in Rochester, NY. Records her daily patrols of streets and places of entertainment, describes encounters with delinquent girls and prostitutes; often lists ethnicity of those she deals with. |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester, NY Police Department |
Subject heading 2: | Delinquent women |
Subject heading 3: | Policewoman |
Subject heading 4: | Prostitution -- Rochester, NY |
Location: | CY 22 |
Name: | Davis, George Francis |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1874-1905 |
Description: | Newspaper clippings of articles written by George Francis Davis, Jr., University of Rochester class of 1864. Most of the articles are from the Cincinnati, Ohio "Weekly Journal and Messenger." |
Subject heading 1: | Davis, George Francis, Jr. |
Subject heading 2: | Scrapbooks |
Location: | CY 23 |
Name: | Reed and Shutt Law Firm |
# of Volumes: | 9 |
Dates: | 1890-1946 |
Description: | Includes 5 volumes of registers of court cases giving a chronology of events in the settlement of each case, 1890-1936; brief listing of court cases, 1884-1927; 2 volumes of accounts and financial records, 1928-35; an unidentified index volume |
Subject heading 1: | Law offices -- Rochester, NY |
Location: | CY 24 |
Name: | Meir, Golda |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1974 |
Description: | Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and programs from Golda Meir's visit to Rochester in December 1974 to receive an honorary degree from the University of Rochester. |
Subject heading 1: | Meir, Golda |
Subject heading 2: | University of Rochester |
Subject heading 3: | Scrapbooks |
Location: | CY 25 |
Name: | Montgomery, Ella Sargent |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
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Description: | Scrapbook kept by Ella Sargent Montgomery, daughter of Senator Aaron Sargent and Ellen Clark Sargent who were supporters of the woman suffrage movement. Includes letter to Ellen Clark Sargent, newspaper clippings on women's rights and other subjects. |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Woman suffrage |
Subject heading 3: | Sargent, Ellen Clark |
Location: | CY 26 |
Name: | Enterprise Insurance Co. of Cincinnati |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1867 |
Description: | Contains summary information on the policies written during part of 1867 by Warfield & Kelly, Rochester agents for the Enterprise Insurance Co. of Cincinnati. |
Subject heading 1: | Insurance -- Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Warfield & Kelly, insurance agents, Rochester, NY |
Location: | CY 27 |
Name: | Vigee-LeBrun, Louise Elizabeth |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca1834 |
Description: | Nineteen pages of Vigee-Le Brun's manuscript draft of her memoir, Souvenirs of Mme. Vigee-LeBrun published in 3 volumes in 1835-37. Includes autograph letter to Jean Frederic Perregaux and notes and letters in other hands. |
Subject heading 1: | Artists -- French -- correspondence, reminiscences, etc |
Subject heading 2: | Women painters |
Subject heading 3: | France biography |
Location: | CY 28 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1650 |
Description: | 17th-century transcripts of 29 Anglo-Saxon charters that are principally royal grants of lands and privileges to the church at Worcester by various kings including Cenwulf, Berhtwulf, Aethelbald and Alfred. Written in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. |
Subject heading 1: | Anglo-Saxon language |
Subject heading 2: | Great Britain history -- Anglo Saxon period, 499-1066 |
Subject heading 3: | Charters |
Location: | CY 29 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1855-1858 |
Description: | Records of potash shipped on canal boat Eagle from Coopersville, Clinton County, NY, to Troy, NY. Also records of lumber counted and logs measured, 1850s and 1860s. |
Subject heading 1: | Erie Canal |
Subject heading 2: | Coopersville, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Troy, NY |
Location: | CY 30 |
Name: | Union Veterans' Union. W.T. Sherman Command No. 2 |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1892-1902 |
Description: | Minutes of meetings of the Union Veterans' Union. W.T. Sherman Command No. 2, Rochester, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Civil War -- veterans |
Location: | CY 31 |
Name: | Zabriskie, Andrew C. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1864-1865 |
Description: | Newspaper clippings that relate to the Civil War including many about the Metropolitan Fair to aid the U.S. Sanitary Commission held in New York City, April 1864, the 1864 political campaign, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Civil War |
Subject heading 3: | Lincoln, Abraham |
Subject heading 4: | United States Sanitary Commission |
Location: | CY 32 |
Name: | Esopus, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1828 |
Description: | Assessment roll of real and personal property in Esopus, NY, made June 3, 1828, by William Elsworth, John G. Freer and Solomon Eckert, Jr. |
Subject heading 1: | Assessment -- Esopus, NY |
Location: | CY 33 |
Name: | Rochester Kindergarten-Primary Association |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1935-1936 |
Description: | Summary of meetings of group made up a kindergarten and primary school teachers and others interested in early childhood eduction |
Subject heading 1: | Education -- Rochester, NY |
Location: | CY 34 |
Name: | Ward, Levi Alfred |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1835-1878 |
Description: | Daily activities of Levi Alfred Ward (1801-1881) who established Rochester's first insurance agency, directed several banks and businesses, founded Rochester Gas Co, and Rochester Water Co.; involved in civic organizations; Mayor of Rochester, 1849 |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY -- history |
Location: | CY 35 |
Name: | Floyd, Elvira |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1876 |
Description: | Scrapbook of albumen photographs, exhibitors' materials, programs, advertisements and assorted ephemera from the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Includes loose material. |
Subject heading 1: | Centennial Exhibition (1876: Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Subject heading 2: | Advertising -- 1870-1880 |
Subject heading 3: | Chromolithography--specimens. |
Subject heading 4: | Scrapbooks. |
Location: | CY 36 |
Name: | Sarle, Clifton James |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1894-1899 |
Description: | Sarle (d. 1960 at age 84) grew up in Rochester, NY and received BA (1902) and MA (1903) degrees from University of Rochester; PhD from Yale (1906). Pursued career as geology teacher and consultant. Diary kept while in high school and early college years |
Subject heading 1: | University of Rochester |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY -- social life and customs |
Subject heading 3: | Diaries |
Location: | CY 37 |
Name: | McCutcheon, George Barr |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1908 |
Description: | Original manuscript of four-act play; 208 pages. Author's bookplate on front endpaper. Published under title: Brood House: A Play in Four Acts (NY: 1910). |
Subject heading 1: | Drama -- American |
Subject heading 2: | Drama -- manuscripts |
Location: | CY 38 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1884-1914 |
Description: | Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine articles pertaining to Edgar Allan Poe |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Poe, Edgar Allan |
Location: | CY 39 |
Name: | Froemcke, Mrs. Alfred C. H. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1901 |
Description: | Scrapbooks of clippings, programs, exhibitors' materials, advertising, and other ephemera from the Pan-American Exposition (1901: Buffalo, NY). Includes loose material. |
Subject heading 1: | Pan-American Exposition (1901: Buffalo, NY) |
Subject heading 2: | Chromolithography--Specimens |
Subject heading 3: | Advertising--1890-1900 |
Subject heading 4: | Scrapbooks |
Location: | CY 40 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 7 |
Dates: | 1692-1780, 1692 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy. Includes drawings of coats-of-arms in pencil and pen (some in color). Different compilers created each volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Italy genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Venice (Italy) -- history |
Location: | CY 41 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 7 |
Dates: | 1692-1780, 1692 |
Description: | Manuscript compilation of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy. Includes drawings of coats-of-arms in pencil and pen (some in color). Different compilers created each volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Italy genealogy |
Subject heading 2: | Heraldry |
Subject heading 3: | Venice (Italy) -- history |
Location: | CY 42 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1840s-1850s |
Description: | Records of grafting and/or budding apples and other fruit. Nursery unidentified, but an advertisement pasted on inside cover is for B.J. Upson dealer in fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, plants, etc., selected from the Phoenix Nurseries, Penfield, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Nurseries (horticulture) |
Subject heading 2: | Phoenix Nurseries, Penfield, NY |
Location: | CY 43 |
Name: | Lyon, Harrison A. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1840s |
Description: | Account book of Harrison A. Lyon, a boot, shoe and leather merchant at 20 State Street, Rochester, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Shoes -- trade and manufacture |
Location: | CY 44 |
Name: | Lyon, E & H |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1844-1845 |
Description: | Account book of E. & H. Lyon, lumber dealers in Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Lumber trade |
Location: | CY 45 |
Name: | Jones, John |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1833-1835 |
Description: | Account book of John Jones, perhaps the merchant at the corner of Buffalo and State Streets listed in the 1834 Rochester city directory. (See also CY 46 & CY 47) |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CY 46 |
Name: | Jones, John |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1833-1835 |
Description: | Account book of John Jones, perhaps the merchant at the corner of Buffalo and State Streets listed in the 1834 Rochester city directory. (See also CY 45 & CY 47) |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CY 47 |
Name: | Jones, John |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1833-1835 |
Description: | Account book of John Jones, perhaps the merchant at the corner of Buffalo and State Streets listed in the 1834 Rochester city directory. (See also CY 45 & CY 46) |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Stores, retail |
Location: | CY 48 |
Name: | |
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Description: | Empty number |
Location: | CY 51 |
Name: | Mosser, Minnie Alice |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1909-1920 |
Description: | Scrapbook kept by Mosser, a nurse, contains photographs, postcards, clippings and memorabilia related to hospitals she worked in, vacations, family and friends. She graduated in 1909 from a nursing school in Reading, PA, and worked in upstate NY hospitals |
Subject heading 1: | Scrapbooks |
Subject heading 2: | Nurses and nursing |
Subject heading 3: | hospitals |
Location: | CY 52 |
Name: | McKenzie, Donald |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1824 |
Description: | Printed Bible with manuscript genealogical and biographical notes by Donald McKenzie (1784-1861) who came to US from Scotland in 1804 and settled in Caledonia, NY. Two letters laid in. See also McKenzie's diaries and account books CX 158. |
Subject heading 1: | Caledonia, NY -- history |
Location: | CY 53 |
Name: | Rochester, NY. Police Department |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1879-1881 |
Description: | Testimony of cases in Police Court, Rochester, NY presided over by George Truesdale, Police Justice. |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester, NY -- police |
Subject heading 2: | Truesdale, George |
Location: | CY 54 |
Name: | The Sanatorium, Dansville, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1883-1887 |
Description: | Register of guests beginning with opening of the new building, Oct. 1, 1883. Includes guests' names, addresses, and room numbers. Volume once owned by Albert Leffingwell, one of the physicians at the Sanatorium, later called The Jackson Sanatorium. |
Subject heading 1: | Sanatoriums |
Subject heading 2: | Jackson Sanatorium, Dansville, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Leffingwell, Albert |
Location: | CY 55 |
Name: | Clemens, Jane Cathcart |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1831 |
Description: | Original poetry illustrated with pencil drawings by Jane Cathcart Clemens, a resident of Great Britain. |
Subject heading 1: | Poetry -- Manuscript |
Subject heading 2: | Poetry -- Great Britain |
Subject heading 3: | Art -- Great Britain -- 19th Century |
Location: | CY 56 |
Name: | Stoughton, Francisco P.A. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1853-56 |
Description: | Autographs pasted into a volume primarily from members of the House of Representatives as well as some literary figures of the day. |
Subject heading 1: | Autograph albums |
Location: | CY 57 |
Name: | Young Men's Washington Debating Society, Rochester |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1850-1857 |
Description: | Proceedings of the Young Men's Washington Debating Society of Rochester, NY. Includes minutes of meetings, constitution, membership, debate rules, topics debated, and treasurers' reports. |
Subject heading 1: | Washington Debating Society |
Subject heading 2: | Debating societies -- U.S. |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY -- clubs |
Location: | CY 58 |
Name: | Dundas, James S. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | ca 1860 |
Description: | Forty original drawings in pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor for Little Red Riding Hood, Goody Two Shoes, Jack the Giant Killer. |
Subject heading 1: | Art -- Great Britain -- 19th Century. |
Location: | CY 59 |
Name: | Forbes, James |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1800-1820 |
Description: | Scrapbook compiled by James Forbes, Elizabeth Fothergill and others containing clippings, original pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor drawings of flora and fauna. |
Subject heading 1: | Art -- Great Britain -- 19th Century |
Location: | CY 60 |
Name: | Globe Hotel, East Aurora, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1887-1890 |
Description: | Guest register for the Globe Hotel in East Aurora, NY. C. W. Roberts proprietor. Each entry gives name of guest and city of residence. |
Subject heading 1: | Hotels |
Subject heading 2: | East Aurora, NY |
Location: | CY 61 |
Name: | Tallmadge, John J. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1852 |
Description: | Account book kept by Tallmadge (1818-1873) while he was located in New York City as a transportation agent on the Erie Canal. Records payments from boat captains for towing and wharf fees. Some entries include mention of cargoes. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Erie Canal |
Subject heading 3: | Shipping -- Erie Canal |
Location: | CY 62 |
Name: | Berry, Watson B. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1953-1954 |
Description: | Biography of NY State politician Preston King (1806-1865) published in weekly installments in the Watertown Daily Times between September 26, 1953 and July 10, 1954. King was from Ogdensburg, NY, and a political ally of William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed. |
Subject heading 1: | King, Preston |
Subject heading 2: | New York State-politics and government |
Subject heading 3: | Seward, William Henry |
Location: | CY 63 |
Name: | Cone, Spencer H. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1840-1850 |
Description: | Cone, a brother of Ely Samuel Parker also known as Spencer Parker. He may have been an itinerant peddler and volume includes financial accounts, explanation and tables for mathematical calculations related to logging, tables of weights and measurements. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Indians of North America-commerce |
Subject heading 3: | Seneca Indians |
Location: | CY 64 |
Name: | Ensign, Enoch |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1835-1857 |
Description: | Account book of a general store in Batavia, NY. Also includes records of his father, Seymour Ensign, an early settler in Genesee County, who had a grist mill on Bigelow Creek and a wool-carding and cloth-dressing business. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Stores, retail |
Subject heading 3: | Genesee County, NY-history |
Subject heading 4: | Batavia, NY-history |
Location: | CY 65 |
Name: | Beecher, Hezekiah |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1814-1818 |
Description: | Beecher (1793-1845) was a farmer and school teacher in Livingston County, NY. One diary records his activities as a farmer (1814-1817); the other as a school teacher (1815-1817). Includes talk he gave to group of young people. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Agriculture-New York State-Livingston County |
Subject heading 3: | Teachers-personal reminiscences |
Subject heading 4: | Livingston County, NY-history |
Location: | CY 66 |
Name: | Unknown, Unknown |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1858-1860 |
Description: | Place and keeper unknown. Perhaps accounts kept by a store selling groceries and sundries. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Store, retail |
Location: | CY 67 |
Name: | Whaley, Charles E. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1853-1878 |
Description: | Financial accounts and record of daily activities kept by a farmer in Avon, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Diaries |
Subject heading 3: | Agriculture-New York State |
Subject heading 4: | Avon, NY |
Location: | CY 68 |
Name: | Downs, Truman |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1848-1895 |
Description: | Account book of Truman Downs who may have been a blacksmith and/or carpenter in Brighton, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Brighton, NY-history |
Location: | CY 69 |
Name: | Lathbury, Thomas |
# of Volumes: | 5 |
Dates: | 1836-1878 |
Description: | Lathbury was a carpenter and storekeeper in Canandaigua, NY. Includes entries of Mary Lathbury for dressmaking, ca 1844; vol. 2 has account of treatments administered by doctors during her illness in 1851. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Stores, retail |
Subject heading 3: | Canandaigua, NY-history |
Subject heading 4: | Medicine-U.S.-history |
Location: | CY 70 |
Name: | Landon, Ezekiel |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1771-1821 |
Description: | Account books of Ezekiel and Walter Landon who were tailors in East Bloomfield, NY. Some entries made by Walter Landon are for early settlers in East Bloomfield. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Tailors-East Bloomfield, NY |
Subject heading 3: | East Bloomfield, NY-history |
Location: | CY 71 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1801-1815 |
Description: | Financial transactions of a tavern keeper in Hopewell, NY. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Hopewell, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Taverns-Hopewell, NY |
Location: | CY 72 |
Name: | Smith, John Brainard |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1855-1865 |
Description: | Financial records of a resident of Lima, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Lima, NY |
Location: | CY 73 |
Name: | Curtis, Daniel |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1828-1881 |
Description: | Financial records of a farmer in Marion, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Marion, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Agriculture-New York (State) |
Location: | CY 74 |
Name: | Sherman, Stephen D. |
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Dates: | 1837-1855 |
Description: | Financial records of a resident of Palmyra, NY. Many entries are for payment for farm labor. Some financial documents laid in. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Palmyra, NY |
Location: | CY 75 |
Name: | Parsons, Daniel |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1834-1844 |
Description: | Financial records of a resident of Phelps, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Phelps, NY |
Location: | CY 76 |
Name: | Todd, B. & Son |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1820-1862 |
Description: | Financial records of a business in Pultneyville, NY |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Pultneyville, NY |
Location: | CY 77 |
Name: | New York Life Insurance Company |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1924 |
Description: | Minute adopted in memory of Granger A. Hollister by the Loss Committee of the New York Life Insurance Company on February 13, 1924. Hand-lettered and illuminated and bound in purple suede. Also see CY 91. |
Subject heading 1: | Hollister, Granger A. |
Subject heading 2: | Calligraphy |
Location: | CY 78 |
Name: | Smith, Siba Hand (Ward) |
# of Volumes: | 6 |
Dates: | 1848-1869 |
Description: | Siba (or Seba) Hand Ward Smith (1794-1854) was the wife of Silas O. Smith, a store keeper in Rochester. In 1841, they moved to their East Ave. home "Woodside." Diaries describe family and social events. 1848 and 1849 diaries are transcribed. |
Subject heading 1: | Diaries |
Subject heading 2: | Smith (Silas O.) family |
Subject heading 3: | Ward (Levi) family |
Subject heading 4: | Rochester, NY-social life and customs |
Location: | CY 79 |
Name: | Perkins, Charles |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1827-1852 |
Description: | Record of land transactions made by Perkins. Includes deeds, plans of lots and their costs, and maps. Perkins wrote that the volume is "intended as a particular history of my land concerns in this section of the state, especially in the town of Gates." |
Subject heading 1: | Real property-Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Gates, NY-history |
Location: | CY 80 |
Name: | Abrams, Benjamin S. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1904-1905 |
Description: | Transcriptions of letters written by Abrams, the Superintendent of the Black River Canal in Booneville, NY. Letters discuss issues relating to the upkeep and repair of the canal. |
Subject heading 1: | Black River Canal |
Subject heading 2: | Booneville, NY |
Location: | CY 81 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1840-1841 |
Description: | Book contains printed forms (2 per page) used by the Erie Canal Collector's Office (perhaps in Brockport, NY) to record tolls. Records include captain's name, name of the boat, boat's home port, cargo and toll paid. |
Subject heading 1: | Erie Canal |
Subject heading 2: | Brockport, NY |
Location: | CY 82 |
Name: | Collier, John Allen |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1839-1866 |
Description: | Collier (1787-1873) was an attorney and Whig politician who held several New York State elected and appointed offices. Volume consists of records of actions taken and fees charged for cases handled by him and others in this Binghamton, NY, law office. |
Subject heading 1: | Lawyers-Binghamton, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Practice of law |
Location: | CY 83 |
Name: | Fellows, Henry |
# of Volumes: | 7 |
Dates: | 1813-1851 with gaps |
Description: | A log kept by Henry Fellows, an attorney in Penfield, NY, containing brief entries of his court cases . See also the Fellows Family Papers (A.F32). Index laid in last volume. |
Subject heading 1: | Lawyers-Penfield, NY |
Subject heading 2: | Practice of law |
Location: | CY 84 |
Name: | Hale's Classical and Scientific School |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1886-1898 |
Description: | Register of students attending Hale's Classical and Scientific School established by George D. Hale in Rochester, NY |
Subject heading 1: | School registers |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY-schools |
Location: | CY 85 |
Name: | Seward Female Seminary |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1835-1840 |
Description: | For each term includes list of students and the fees they paid; a few pages include list of financial transactions for the school |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester, NY-schools |
Location: | CY 86 |
Name: | Lauderdale, Walter Elliot |
# of Volumes: | 13 |
Dates: | 1829-1880 |
Description: | Daybooks of Walter E. Lauderdale and Walter E. Lauderdale Jr., physicians of Sparta, Groveland, and Geneseo. (See also CY 87 & CY 88) |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Physicians-New York State |
Subject heading 3: | Geneseo, NY |
Location: | CY 87 |
Name: | Lauderdale, Walter Elliot, |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1853-1882 |
Description: | Account book for shop in Geneseo, NY owned by a physician. Lists customers and items sold including alcohol (perhaps for medicinal purposes) and various medical remedies. (See also CY 86 & CY 88) |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Sores, retail |
Subject heading 3: | Geneseo, NY |
Location: | CY 88 |
Name: | Lauderdale, Walter Elliot, |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1875-1880 |
Description: | Ledger kept by Geneseo, NY physician. (See also CY 86 & CY 87) |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Physicians-New York State |
Subject heading 3: | Geneseo, NY |
Location: | CY 89 |
Name: | Smith, Justin |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1830-1832 |
Description: | Daybook of a physician of Lima, New York. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Physicians-New York State |
Subject heading 3: | Lima, NY |
Location: | CY 90 |
Name: | John Hass & Sons |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1891-1907 |
Description: | Account books of shoemakers located on Front Street in Rochester, NY. Customers include prominent Rochesterians such as Susan B. Anthony, James G. Cutler, George Ellwanger, Walter S. Hubbell, Kate Gleason and others. |
Subject heading 1: | Account books |
Subject heading 2: | Shoes -- trade and manufacture |
Subject heading 3: | Anthony, Susan Brownell |
Location: | CY 91 |
Name: | Security Trust Company, Rochester, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | January 21, 1924 |
Description: | Memorial to Granger A. Hollister adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Security Trust Company of Rochester, NY. Includes signatures of the Board members. Hand-lettered with decorative borders; bound in leather. See also CY 77. |
Subject heading 1: | Hollister, Granger A. |
Subject heading 2: | Calligraphy |
Location: | CY 92 |
Name: | Thorne, Thomas W. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1865-1875 |
Description: | Lists houses of prostitution in New York City's 4th ward by street; most of the volume is a record of arrests and convictions by officers under command of Capt. Thorne. Record includes names of those arrested, their crime and the resolution of the case. |
Subject heading 1: | New York, NY - Police Department |
Subject heading 2: | Crime - New York, NY |
Subject heading 3: | Prostitution - New York, NY |
Location: | CY 93 |
Name: | Konraty, Olga |
# of Volumes: | 2 |
Dates: | 1909-1930 |
Description: | Olga (Lola) Konraty (1900-1988), born Olga Vladimirovna von Bremke in Moscow, was a singer, dancer, and artist. Commonplace book and photographs and clippings relating to her career with Nikita Balieff's La Chauve-Souris. |
Subject heading 1: | La Chauve-Souris |
Subject heading 2: | Theater--Russia--20th century |
Subject heading 3: | Balieff, Nikita |
Location: | CY 94 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1841-1845 |
Description: | Account book. Lists receipts and disbursements. |
Subject heading 1: | Ledger |
Subject heading 2: | Account Book |
Location: | CY 95 |
Name: | Olcott, Ralph Thrall |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1886- 1889 |
Description: | 1 scrapbook with newspaper clippings. |
Subject heading 1: | Olcott, Ralph Thrall |
Subject heading 2: | Scrapbook |
Location: | CY 96 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | June 1926 |
Description: | 1 scrapbook with newspaper clippings about the wedding of Emily Smith (daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith) to Major John A. Warner |
Subject heading 1: | Smith, Emily |
Subject heading 2: | Smith, Alfred A. |
Subject heading 3: | Warner, John A. |
Subject heading 4: | Scrapbook |
Location: | CY 97 |
Name: | Seward, John W. |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1838- 1841 |
Description: | 1 bound volume of an account book for John W. Seward Hardware, Rochester, New York |
Location: | CY 98 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 3 |
Dates: | 1839 |
Description: | 3 volumes, handwritten record books for the Tonawanda Railroad Company |
Subject heading 1: | Tonawanda Railroad Company |
Location: | CY 99 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1848- 1852 |
Description: | 1 volume handwritten constitution and meeting minutes for the Rochester Eight Guard |
Subject heading 1: | Rochester (N.Y.) |
Subject heading 2: | Rochester Eight Guard |
Location: | CZ 1 |
Name: | Cobb's Hill Reservoir |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1905-1909 |
Description: | Album of about 100 leaves with 2 or more photographs mounted on each leaf. Photographs show construction of Cobb's Hill Reservoir and surrounding area. |
Subject heading 1: | Photographs |
Subject heading 2: | Reservoirs |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY -- description and travel |
Subject heading 4: | Rochester, NY -- water supply |
Location: | CZ 2 |
Name: | Corner Club, Rochester, NY |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1942-1945 |
Description: | Project of the Corner Club, it was organized and managed by Charlotte Whitney Allen; each week members purchased war bonds based on the number of Japanese aircraft, ships, or military equipment destroyed the previous week; includes charts, correspondence |
Subject heading 1: | Allen, Charlotte Whitney |
Subject heading 2: | World War II |
Location: | CZ 4 |
Name: | American Red Cross |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1917 |
Description: | Photograph Album of each person who participated in the campaign. Includes index. |
Subject heading 1: | American National Red Cross |
Subject heading 2: | World War I |
Subject heading 3: | Rochester, NY -- biography -- portraits |
Location: | CZ 5 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1695-1710 |
Description: | An unbound volume of 27 maps of Europe from the late 1600s, published in Amsterdam by Morties. |
Subject heading 1: | Europe |
Subject heading 2: | Morties |
Location: | CZ 6 |
Name: | |
# of Volumes: | 1 |
Dates: | 1888-1938 |
Description: | Minutes of the trustees, for Moseley and Motley Milling Company, Rochester, New York, 1888- 1938 |