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Delta Upsilon International Fraternity. Rochester Chapter

The collection includes chapter minutes (1911-1934) and six scrapbooks from the 1930s to the early 1950s, with a letter from Brother David Levy Reiner (Class of 2003) entrusting the scrapbooks on behalf of the chapter. The scrapbooks were compiled in part by Brother Robert Elwell (Class of 1950), and they contain pictures, clippings, and captions covering subjects such as class pictures, football and other sports, social events, pledging, and Delta Upsilon involvement at the University of Rochester.

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Simon Dubnow
This collection consists of materials of Simon Dubnow, a historian, political thinker, educator, collector of historical and ethnographic documents in Russia and Poland, writer, and an activist. These materials include community registers (pinkasim) and other communal documents, historical documents relating to restrictions and privileges issued by governments to Jewish populations, blood libel trials and the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649, documents from the Russian Justice Ministry and Senate, materials on pogroms in the Russian empire, and Dubnow’s family and general correspondence. The collection demonstrates Dubnow’s importance in helping to establish the idea of Jewish ethnographic history.
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Roberts Brothers (Boston, Mass.)

Correspondence files of Roberts Brothers, pertaining to all departments, editorial, production, advertising, and sales. Also, some miscellaneous letters and documents, unrelated to Roberts Brothers, which deal with various legal matters, including those of Frederick D. Ely and of William A. Dunn, from 1838 until 1932, and letters to the Secretary of Harvard University from 1900 to 1907.

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Rochester Friendly Home (Rochester, N.Y.)

The collection consists of minutes of the Board of Managers' meetings, which cover the periods 1849 to 1866 and 1872 to 1917, minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees from 1871 to 1933, records of the operation of the Home from 1849 to 1912, the minutes of the Good Will Club from January, 1920 to April, 1921, and the records of the Building Committee, which from 1915 to 1921 oversaw the construction of the building on East Avenue in which the Home is presently located.

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Delta Kappa Epsilon. Beta Phi Chapter (University of Rochester)

The Delta Kappa Epsilon (Beta Phi Chapter) papers include minutes, a history of the chapter, material relating to the alumni organization, material relating to the 150th anniversary of the chapter and other events, publications, various three-dimensional objects, a songbook, scrapbook, and guest books.

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Chang, William Yukon, 1916-2019
William Yukon Chang was the founder and editor of "Chinese-American Times", a Chinese American paper that published completely in English from 1955 to 1972. While running the newspaper, Chang also served in local social and civic groups to address issues facing the New York Chinatown community, including poverty, juvenile delinquency, mental illness and lack of access to adult language programs. The William Yukon Chang papers document Chang's life and career, Chinese American life, and social service and activism scene in the Lower East Side from the 1950s to the 1970s.