Manuscripts

Dec 21, 2021
Thomas E. Dewey: Politician and Crimefighter
By: Autumn Haag, Assistant Director for Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
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Nov 30, 2021
Native American Heritage month
by Veronica Cisneros, B.A. Candidate in English, British and American Literature. Veronica works in RBSCP as a student assistant.
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Oct 20, 2021
"While We Were Out: Building Special Collections while Working from Home!"
By: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Exhibitions and Special Projects Manager
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Sep 27, 2021
Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow
By: Autumn Haag, Assistant Director for Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
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Jul 6, 2021
ExhiBits Series #6: A Single Item Tells a Story: Creating a Stir with Suffrage Cookbooks
By: Autumn Haag, Assistant Director for Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester and Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Exhibitions and Special Projects Manager
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Jun 30, 2021
Invisible Fires: LGBTQIA+ in the archives
By: Lev Earle, Special Collections Processing Archivist, RBSCP **Content Warning** The following blog post discusses archival materials which contain descriptions of violence and discrimination against women and LGBTQIA+ people, and reclaimed homophobic slurs.
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Jun 7, 2021
ExhiBits Series #5: “Organize, Agitate, Participate: Meet Ruth Scott through her Papers,” with special guest Ruth Scott
by: Autumn Haag, Assistant Director for Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
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May 28, 2021
Ruth Watanabe, Head of Sibley Library and Japanese-American Rochesterian (1916-2005)
by: Eleanor Lenoe '21. Eleanor worked as the RBSCP Manuscript Paging Clerk until she graduated in 2021.
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Apr 29, 2021
A Brief Exploration of the Rochester Poetry Society and its Members
By: Eleanor Lenoe ‘21. Eleanor worked as the RBSCP Manuscript Paging Clerk until she graduated in 2021.
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