Bibliography of the Genesee Region, 1790 to 1990: Browse

The Genesee Region, 1790 to the Present; a Guide to its History is a bibliography of the books, pamphlets, and periodical articles on the history of a ten-county area of upstate New York. The counties are Allegany, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. Rochester, in Monroe County, is the largest city in the area covered. Most of the 6917 entries in the bibliography are briefly annotated.

The main volume (1978) and the first supplement (1984) were compiled by James D. Folts, Jr. and the second supplement (1992) was compiled by Karl Sanford Kabelac. The three volumes were digitized by Melissa Mead , digital librarian in Rush Rhees Library, The University of Rochester.

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1720
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1750
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1765
1767
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1796-98
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1807, 1810
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1814-15
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1817, 1822-23
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1850s
1851
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1854
1855
1857
1859
1860
1861
1862; 1864; 1865
1869
1870
1872
1876
1880
1886?
1887
1890
1891
1894
1900-1902
1903
1913
1913?
1915?
1922
1940?
1973
1975
1976?
1980s
1981
19th Century
20th Century
20th Century Government
Abolitionist Movement
Adventists
African Americans (Including FIGHT)
Agricultural Journalism
Agricultural Periodicals
Agricultural Prices (arranged by date)
Alabama
Albion
Alfred
Alfred University
Alfred University (and associated schools)
Algernon S. Crapsey
Allegany
Allegany County
Allegany, Genesee
Alleghany County
Alliance Bank
Alloway (Lyons)
Alma
Almond
Amity
Amusement Parks, Carousels and Circuses
Andrew J. Warner
Angelica
Anniversary Celebrations (Arranged by date)
Antimasonry
Arcade
Arcadia
Arcadia (including Newark)
Area Church History
Arts and Crafts (Including the Rochester Lamp)
Arts Organizations
Assembly of God
Asylums, Water Cures and Sanataria
Attica
Attica Center
Attica Prison
Aviation
Avon
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio (now Chessie System)
Barge Canal
Barns and Brick Ovens
Barre
Baseball
Basic Study Series Reports
Batavia
Batavia Sacred Heart
Bausch & Lomb
Belcoda
Belfast
Bellona
Belmont
Belvidere
Bennington
Benton Center
Bergen
Bethany
Bibliography
Bicycling
Big Springs Historical Society Annual Tour
Bishopville
Blacks
Blacksmithing
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Boating
Bolivar
Branchport
Bridges
Brighton
Bristol
Bristol Center
Bristol Valley
Brockport
Brockport (see Sweden)
Brockport State College
Brockport--see Sweden
Building the Erie Canal
Burns
Burroughs-Audubon Nature Club
Butler
Butler Township
Byron
ca. 1980
Caledonia
Canadice
Canal see Miller. Includes a long bibliographical essay.
Canals
Canandaigua
Canandaigua Lake
Canaseraga
Canning & Preserving Industry
Canoeing
Carlton
Castile
Cemetery Inscriptions
Cemetery transcriptions
Census Data by Minor Civil Division (arranged by date)
Census Population Schedules etc.
Censuses, etc.
Central Trust
Ceres (see Genesee)
Child and Youth Organizations
Childs
Chili
Chronology
Churchville
City Planning & Urban Renewal
Civil War
Clarendon
Clarkson
Claude F. Bragdon
Clifton Springs
Clifton Springs Clinic
Clyde
Cobblestone Architecture
Cobblestone Society Tours
Cobblestones and Octagons
Colgate Rochester Divinity School (and affiliated schools)
Colgate Rochester/ Bexley Hall/ Crozier/ St. Bernard's Institute
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Community College of the Finger Lakes
Community Savings Bank
Comprehensive Plan Series Reports.
Conesus
Conesus Lake
Contemporary Accounts
Corfu
Country Clubs
County and Local Government (Including Fire Departments) Outside Monroe County
Covert
Covington
Covington (Including Lagrange, Peoria and Pearl Creek)
Crime, Police & Prisons
Cuba
Cunningham
Currier
Cuylerville
Danes; English; Irish
Dansville
Dansville (see North Dansville)
Darien
Darien Center
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (Later Erie-Lackawanna; now Conrail)
Descriptions of Business & Industry (arranged by date)
Directories
Directories Covering Two or More Counties
Dutch
Eagle (Including Bliss)
Early Medical Schools
Early Roads, Turnpikes & Stagecoach Lines
Early Rochester
Early Settlement
East Avon
East Bethany
East Bloomfield
East Palmyra
East Pembroke
East Rochester
East Rochester (See Perinton/Pittsford)
Eastman House/International Museum of Photography
Eastman Kodak Co.
Eastman School of Music
Eateries, Medicine Shows and Vaudeville
Elba
Elim
Elizabeth Blackwell
Enlarging and Maintaining the Canal
Epidemics
Erie
Erie (Later Erie-Lackawanna, now Conrail)
Ethnic History (Several Groups)
Express Companies
Fairport
Fairport (See Perinton)
Fairs
Farm Economics
Farm Labor
Farmers' Organizations
Farmington
Fayette
Federal
Feminist Movement
Fillmore
Finance & Taxation
Finances and Taxation
Fire
Fire Companies
Fishing (Including Seth Green and Fish Hatcheries)
Folklore and Historical Miscellany
Football
Fortnightly Club
Frederick Douglass
Freemasons
Freethought
Friendship
Fruit Industry
Fruit Production & Marketing
Furniture
Gaines
Gainesville
Gainesville (Including Silver Springs, Rock Glen)
Galen (including Clyde)
Gannett Newspapers
Garbage & Rubbish
Gardens and Landscape Architecture
Garland
Gates
Gates Holy Ghost
Gates St. Theodore
Gazetteers
Genealogical Guides
General
General Motors
General Works
General Works (Listed by date)
Genesee
Genesee & Wyoming Counties
Genesee Community College
Genesee Falls (Including Portageville)
Genesee Region
Genesee River
Genesee State College
Genesee Valley Canal
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
Geneseo
Geneva
Geneva (city)
Geneva (town)
Geneva First
Geneva St. Peter
Geneva Trinity
George Eastman (Selected items only)
Germans
Gleason Works
Golf
Gordon & Kaelber
Gorham
Government and Agriculture
Government Manuals (arranged roughly by date)
Government Publications
Government Reports on
Government Reports on Ontario Ports (arranged by date)
Greece
Guidebooks
Guns
Hamlin
Harvey Ellis
Hemlock Lake
Henrietta
Hermitage
Highways
Highways and Stages
Highways in Rochester & Monroe County
Highways in the 20th Century
Hiking
Hilton
Hilton (See Parma)
Historical Societies
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Hobart College
Holley
Honeoye Falls
Honeoye Falls (See Mendon)
Hopewell
Horticulture
Hospitals
Housing in Rochester and Monroe County
Hume
Hunt
Hunting
Iconography
Indian Falls
Indians & Geology
Individual Artists
Individual Artists and Photographers
Individual Firms
Industrial & Automobile Safety
Ingham University
Irish
Irondequoit
Iroquois; Italians; Poles; Syrians
Italians
Java
Java Center
Jews
Jews (NOTE: See under RELIGION.)
Kendall
Keuka College
Keuka Lake
Labor Unions & Strikes
LaGrange
Law, Courts and Lawyers
Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley (now Conrail)
Leicester
LeRoy
Letchworth Park
Libraries
Lima
Lincoln First Bank
Livestock Industry
Livingston
Livingston County
Livingston County Studies (arranged by date)
Livingston Park Seminary
Livonia
Local
Local Participation
Lodi
Lumber Industry and Trees
Lyndonville
Lyons
Macedon
Manchester
Manchester (Clifton Springs)
Maps
Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum
Marine Midland
Marion
Marlon
Martin B. Anderson, David J. Hill and Rush Rhees
Medical Organizations
Medina
Megiddo Mission
Mendon
Mennonites
Microfilms
Middlebury
Middlebury (Including Dale, Wyoming)
Middlesex
Midtown Plaza
Milling & Water Power
Milo (Including Penn Yan)
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Firms (arranged alphabetically)
Miscellaneous Works on Transportation
Model Cities Program
Model Farms
Modern Appraisals
Monroe
Monroe Community College
Monroe County
Monroe County Community Fire Departments
Monroe County Courts
Monroe County Directories (arranged by date)
Monroe County Government
Monroe Savings Bank
Mormons
Mount Morris
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Multi-County Industry and Business
Mumford
Murray
Museums
Music in the Genesee Region
Music-Theater-Film-Dance
Naples
Nathaniel Rochester
National Guard and Reserve Units
Neighborhood Centers
New York Central
New York Central (later Penn Central, now Conrail)
New York State Archeological Association
Newark
Newspapers
Newspapers and Printing
North Dansville (includes Village of Dansville)
North Rush
Norwegians
Nunda
Nursery and Seed Companies
Oak Corners
Oakfield
Octagons and Other Special Types
Ogden
Ontario
Ontario (See under Seneca County for Rose Hill)
Ontario County
Orangeville
Orleans
Orthodox
Ossian
Other
Other Business Organizations
Other firms
Other Firms (Including Ward's Natural Science Establishment)
Other Historical Societies
Other Libraries
Other Newspapers
Outdoor Activities
Outside Monroe County
Ovid
Palmyra
Palymra
Parks
Parks and Recreation
Parma
Parma (Including Hilton)
Patent Medicine
Pavilion
Pembroke
Penfield
Penn Ian
Penn Yan
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (later Penn Central, now Conrail)
Perinton
Perinton (Including Bushnell's Basin, Fairport)
Perinton/Pittsford
Perry
Perry Center
Personal Accounts
Personal Accounts since 1865
Personal Accounts to 1865 (including memories of the old Third Ward)
Phelps
Photographers
Photographs
Physical Fitness
Physicians and Nurses
Pike
Pittsford
Planning and Planning Studies (arranged by date)
Point Bluff
Poles
Police
Popular Accounts
Popular History and Folklore
Population of Rochester & Monroe County
Portage
Portageville
Portuguese
Postal Service
Pottery & Glass
Powers Block
Prisons and Reform Schools
Private Social Welfare Agencies
Production & Marketing--Beans; Cabbage; Celery; Corn; Lettuce &c.
Production & Marketing--Grapes
Production & Marketing--Potatoes
Protestants
Public Health
Public Welfare
Public Works
Puerto Ricans
Pundit Club
Quakers
Radio & Television
Railroads - General
Reading
Reaper Controversy
Red Cross
Red Cross & Blue Shield/Blue Cross
Reformed
Regional Dialect and Place Names
Regional Planning
Regional Studies
Religious Orders
Retail stores
Retsof
Richmond
Ridgeway (Including Knowlesville)
Riga
Roberts Wesleyan
Roberts Wesleyan College
Rochester
Rochester (Alphabetical by Parish)
Rochester - General Works, By Date
Rochester Academy of Science
Rochester and Monroe County Architecture
Rochester and Monroe County Economy
Rochester Architects
Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce
Rochester Asbury-First
Rochester Baptist Temple
Rochester Blessed Sacrament
Rochester Brick
Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research
Rochester Business Directories (arranged by date)
Rochester Business Institute
Rochester Central
Rochester Christ
Rochester Christ Church
Rochester City Government
Rochester City Manager
Rochester City Plans to 1960
Rochester Concordia
Rochester Corpus Christi
Rochester Engineering Society
Rochester Female Academy
Rochester First
Rochester Gas & Electric
Rochester Genesee
Rochester Grace
Rochester Guidebooks (arranged by date)
Rochester Guidebooks, Arranged by Date
Rochester Historical Society (and predecessors)
Rochester History and Other Articles Not Specifically Listed Elsewhere
Rochester History Articles & Others (arranged by date)
Rochester History, Unclassified
Rochester Holy Redeemer
Rochester Holy Rosary
Rochester Immaculate Conception
Rochester Immanuel
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Lake Avenue
Rochester Lamp
Rochester Manufacturing Co.
Rochester Mayors
Rochester Monroe Avenue
Rochester Mount Olivet
Rochester Museum & Science Center
Rochester Neighborhoods
Rochester Newspapers
Rochester Nurseries
Rochester Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Rochester Peace
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Rochester Plymouth
Rochester Public Library & Pioneer Library Systems
Rochester Sacred Heart
Rochester Salem
Rochester Savings Bank
Rochester School for the Deaf
Rochester Second
Rochester Sesquicentennial, 1984
Rochester South
Rochester St. Andrew
Rochester St. Anthony
Rochester St. Augustine
Rochester St. Bridget
Rochester St. James
Rochester St. Joseph
Rochester St. Luke
Rochester St. Mary
Rochester St. Michael
Rochester St. Monica
Rochester St. Patrick
Rochester St. Paul
Rochester St. Peter
Rochester Street Directories
Rochester Third
Rochester Trinity
Rochester Westminster
Rochester Youth since 1945
Rochester Youth, Early 20th Century
Rochester Zion
Rochester's Third Ward
Rochester, Buffalo and Pittsburgh
Romulus
Rose
Rush
Rushford
Rushville
Rushville (see Potter, Yates County)
Sam Patch
Savannah
Scio
Scottsville
Scottsville (See Wheatland)
Security Trust
Seneca
Seneca Castle
Seneca County
Seneca Falls
Seneca, Town of
Sewers
Shakers
Sheldon
Sheldon (Including Johnsonburg, Varysburg)
Shipping, Including Lighthouses
Short Lines
Short Lines (arranged alphabetically, more or less)
Shortsville
Silver
Silver Lake
Silver Springs
Social Service; Directories (arranged by date)
Social Welfare Movements, Agencies and Organizations etc.
Sodus
Sodus Canal (never built)
Sodus Center
Sodus Point
South Bristol
South Livonia
Spanish-American War
Sparta
Special Study Series Reports
Special Topics
Spencerport
Spencerport (See Ogden)
Springwater
St. John Fisher College
Stafford
Starkey
Starkey (Including Dundee)
State
State and Local Politics
State and Regional History
State Bank of Commerce of Brockport
State Or Regional Business Directories (arranged by date)
State School at Industry
Steamboats
Sterling
Streets
Stromberg-Carlson
Studies since 1940
Sweden
Sweden (Brockport)
Sweden (including Brockport)
Sybron
Technical Study Series Reports
Telegraph
Telegraph; Telephone; Radio; Television
Telephone
Tennis
Textbooks
The Aged
The Great Revivals
Theater in Rochester
Theses & Dissertations
Todd
Towns (alphabetical by town)
Travel Accounts - Guides and Literature
Trolleys, Interurbans and Buses
Twentieth Century Accounts
Twentieth Century Architecture
Ukrainians
University of Rocheste
University of Rochester
University of Rochester Libraries
University of Rochester Medical Center/Strong Memorial Hospital
Varick
Vegetable Production & Marketing
Victor
Victor (Including Fishers)
Vietnam War
Vital Records & c.
Wadsworth Family
Wagner College
Walworth
War of 1812
War of 1812 and New York Militia to 1845
Ward
Warfare
Warsaw
Warsaw (Including Oatka)
Water
Water & Waste
Water Cures & Sanitaria
Waterloo
Wayne
Wayne County
Webster
Webster Holy Trinity
Webster St. Paul
Welfare
Wellsville
West Bloomfield
West Bloomfield (Including Ionia)
West Bloomfield (see East Bloomfield)
West Middlebury
West Sparta
West Webster
Wethersfield (Including Hermitage)
Wethersfield Springs
Wheatland
Wheatland (including Scottsville)
Whitesville
Williamson
Williamson (Including Pultneyville)
Willing
Wine Industry
Wirt
Wirt/Richburg
Wolcott
Women
Woodside
World War I
World War II
Wyoming
Wyoming County
Xerography
Yankees
Yates
Yates (including Lyndonville)
Yates (see also no. 1464)
York
York's Corners