Correspondence, catalogs, advertisements, stock reports, and other papers from Alling DeForest, a landscape architect who assisted in the design of several Rochester-area institutions. The materials date between 1916 and 1947, with the bulk between 1926 and 1941. Box 1 consists of personal materials related to DeForest's work and investments. Box 2 includes periodicals, product catalogs sorted by material type, and further information on DeForest's investments. Box 3 includes product information sorted by type of product. Box 4 consists of sales letters and solicitations sent to DeForest by manufacturers, sorted alphabetically.
This is an artificial collection consisting of 65 almanacs published in the vicinity of Rochester, New York between 1812 and 1938 (accession 2020.011). An additional group of 47 almanacs donated by the Honeoye Falls-Mendon Historical Society (accession 2021.018) was added to the collection in 2021. The almanacs in the original collection have been housed individually in acid-free envelopes. They are arranged in chronological order. The Honeoye-Falls-Mendon donation consists of almanacs mostly bound together with simple chain stitching. The have been wrapped as a group and placed in a box.
This collection consists of the records of the Alpha Reading Club, a women's literary group that operated from 1901 to 1992. The materials present date from 1901 to 1992 and include:
Five scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and ephemera related to publicity for the Rochester Branch of the American Association of University Women and its projects. The scrapbooks date between 1930 and 1936,
Anah Babcock Yates was a historian and genealogist, one of the first people to research the history of Rochester, New York through archival sources. Her papers include genealogical research, correspondence, clippings, photographs, legal documents, a hair album, information on early (white) Rochesterians, documents on Ebenezer Allen, early probate records, and genealogy information. The papers date from 1839 into the 1930s.
