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University of Rochester: Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation

University of Rochester: Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation

Rush Rhees Library
Second Floor, Room 225
755 Library Rd.
Rochester, NY 14627, United States
The Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at the University of Rochester is located in Rush Rhees Library. Our collections span a range of subjects and time periods. They include manuscripts, audio and visual material, books and serials, letters, diaries, photographs, ephemera, personal and business records, architectural drawings, maps, and more.

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Corney Grain archive .5 Linear Feet

Grain, Corney, 1844-1895

The Corney Grain Archive provides an insight into the talents of Richard Corney Grain and the esteem with which he was held among his theatrical contemporaries. The archive includes personal memorabilia including his correspondence, along with photographs, periodical art and reviews, books written by or about Grain, sheet music of his songs, and programs from his German Reed entertainments, most of which include synopses and song lyrics.

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Shedd, Kendrick P. (Kendrick Philander), 1866-1953

The Kendrick Philander Shedd Papers include correspondence about his resignation from the University of Rochester faculty for socialist sympathies; reminiscences of the socialist movement in Milwaukee, 1915; personal scrapbooks and autobiography; as well as published and unpublished writings. There are also scrapbooks of minutes, correspondence, and clippings on Socialist Educational Federation of Rochester, sponsored by the Progressive Working People's Lyceum and Local Rochester, Socialist Party, 1914; letters and papers concerning the Rochester Socialist Sunday School and Young People's Socialist League; scrapbooks about the Social Center at School No. 9, Rochester, 1908-10; and a defense of Shedd by Lloyd Somers, with exhibits.

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Gordon (Family : Gordon, James Willoughby, Sir)

The Sir James Willoughby Gordon Family Papers consists of correspondence of the Sir James Willoughby Gordon Family, principally written in their world wide peregrinations. Groups include letters written to Lady Julia Lavinia (Bennet) Gordon (fl.1808-1861), wife of Sir James Willoughby Gordon (1773-1851), from Richard Henry Alexander Bennet, her father, in France, Lady Emily Elizabeth (Swinburne) Ward (1798-1882), and Sir Henry George Ward (1797-1860), colonial governor, in Mexico, Mrs. Mary (Aston) Grant Gordon just returned from Greece, and Orlando Felix (c.1793-1867), soldier and authority on Egypt, in Bombay. There are also letters with diagrams of sunspots from Sir James South (1785-1867), astronomer, and letters to an unknown correspondent from Lady Gordon while she was travelling through northern England. The remainder of the collection consists of a group of compositions in poetry and music by members of the Gordon Family.