The National Organization for Women, Rochester Chapter Records represents local examples of action women organized during the 1970s- 2000s. This collection is divided into four series: Chapter Records, Issue Campaigns, Printed Materials and Women Against a Violent Environment. The Chapter Records include by-laws, board of director meeting minutes, a member survey and issues from the chapter newsletter. Issue Campaigns includes materials related to supporting women's reproductive health rights, welfare, equal rights and pay equity. The third series includes pamphlets and newspaper clippings documenting various issue campaigns associated with the local chapter. The Women Against a Violent Environment series includes meeting minutes and newspaper clippings from this active sub-group of NOW.

The Alternatives for Battered Women Collection consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Lura Carstens and Marion Strand of material that documents the history of Alternatives for Battered Women. Many of the records are from the files of Helen French. The scrapbooks include originals and photocopies of news clippings, meeting minutes, speeches, reports, and other relevant materials.

The Rochester Clothiers' Exchange Collection is comprised of one series: Business Materials. There are meeting minutes from 1961-1968, letters written among Exchange members from 1961-1976, financial records, several press releases announcing new board members and two newspaper clippings.

The Rochester Poetry Society Records includes minutes, correspondence, clippings, programs, membership lists, scrapbooks, and poems by society members.

The most significant historical contents in this collection are the materials found in Box 1, which include photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper accounts detailing the ACWA Strike of 1933, as well as a substantial amount of material regarding the proxy battle of 1960. Box 2 contains a broad collection of general historical material about the company, such as newspaper articles, advertisements, and style model books, as well as an original Heumann patent and Heumann biographical information. Significant financial and stock information is found in Box 3, including original turn of the century bank account books, annual reports, executive payroll reports, and stockholder correspondence. Finally, Box 4 contains miscellaneous business and legal documents related to Keller, Heumann and Thompson, Inc. such as by-laws, constitutions, and minutes of meetings.

The papers of the Fortnightly Ignorance Club consist of two manuscript volumes containing minutes of the group's meetings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and club budgets. The correspondence, between recording secretary Jenny Marsh Parker and notable women reformers (including Marie E. Zakrzewska and Susan B. Anthony), is interleaved in the volumes and indexed. The two volumes cover the periods 1881 to 1883 (volume 1) and 1886 to 1891 (volume 3) with a gap during the intervening years.

The collection consists of minutes of meetings of the general Board, the Board of Directors, and the various committees from December,, 1926 to December, 1955; bank and account books from 1924 to 1926; a stock ledger; and minutes of the meetings of the older Local Board of Fire Underwriters from the years 1881-1886. There are also seven scrapbooks containing primarily newspaper clippings and agency newspapers from the year 1927 to the year 1958. Pages from another account book covering the years 1929-1940 can be found at the beginning of the first scrapbook. There is also a carbon copy of a letter written by Mr. Louis Hawes, the Executive Secretary of the Board, to Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Mr. Hoover's reply at the beginning of the fifth scrapbook.

The Hillside Children's Center Papers contain historical materials such as records of the children cared for by the Rochester Orphan Asylum and later, Hillside Children's Center; original legal documents and by-laws of the institution; correspondence; committee/board minutes and reports (printed annual reports and various other printed materials have been removed and catalogued); financial documents; property maps, floor plans, and blueprints; audio-visual materials such as videotapes and slides; photographs; newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous printed materials and ephemera.

The Harry Gove Papers include three series: Activism; Career and Leisure Activities; and Publications and Clippings Collected by Gove. The first series, Activism (1965-1971), consists primarily of Friends of FIGHT and Metro-Act materials such as meeting minutes and information about initiatives. This series also includes Gove's own notes from his involvement. The second series, Career and Leisure Activities (1955-1971), includes a limited number of notes and tests from Gove's work as a professor at the University of Rochester as well as records of events at the University, some of which relate to activism. It also contains materials from Gove's leisure activities in Rochester, Canada, and abroad. The third series, Publications and Clippings Collected by Gove, consists largely of news clippings from the late 1960s and early 1970s, including those Gove assembled into two scrapbooks. A larger scrapbook includes news articles related to FIGHT and Metro-Act from 1969-1971. The pages of a smaller scrapbook include news articles on police action in Rochester during the summer of 1970.